Figma asked 18 designers (including me) what UI/UX trends they predict for 2018. December, with its flurry of holiday parties, cheery out-of-office auto-replies and introspective weather patterns, provided the perfect opportunity to pause and survey the landscape.
There’s a lot to be excited about in CSS – integrating new tools, like Grid and Custom Properties, with existing features like Calc and Viewport Units. Modern CSS allow a new level of interaction, responsiveness, and data-visualization that previously required extensive Javascript involvement. I’m excited to see what new trends grow out of that technology.
As designers, it makes sense to think about what space is available in the browser, and adjust your typography accordingly. It’s also important to remember that different users will have different font-size needs – and the more a font size is responsive to the viewport, the less responsive it will…
Bringing SCSS flexibility to .sass files
The Sass indented format is getting more flexible with the ability to have multiline statements, semicolons, and more.
Inspect and manipulate the new CSS color formats in Sass!
CSS has a range of new color functions that support wider color gamuts (like display-p3) and perceptually uniform color adjustments (like oklch). Sass now provides additional tools for working with these new color formats, and converting between them.