Design your way

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The code demos and experiments that you see now on Codepen and you say that are outrageous and nobody will use them are the ones that will be used in the near future in a lot of web projects.

These may be interesting showcases of the outer limits of what you can achieve with CSS and you may think that these can be made only by top web designers, but the truth is that they are all made of code, code that you can learn and that you can replicate, modify and create new things that can look even better.

In this article I featured some of these impressive CSS demos and experiments and the code snippets behind them so that other designers can learn and adopt them in their projects or prepare for what is modern right now and what will be common sense in the world of web design in a year or maybe two.

I’m saying in a year or two because the industry in which we operate moves at an accelerated pace and things that we didn’t think were possible two years ago are now being made even by newbie designers with the help of CSS, SVG and Javascript, individually or all combined.

Enjoy these beautiful and intriguing demos and experiments, and even if some of them work only in Chrome, take a look at them and remember the techniques used cause there won’t be much longer until the other browsers accept the technologies behind these code effects.