Designer of various things, sometimes developer, occasional writer. Design system nerd. User researcher.
CIS Ally. Trans rights are human rights. Black Lives Matter.
| Personal Site | https://stegrainer.com |
| UXcellence | https://uxcellence.com |
| Pronouns | he/him |
| Location | Richmond, VA |
🔗 The Great CSS Expansion — A handy intro to new CSS features available now or coming soon and the JavaScript they can replace
🔗 My default config for new Craft CMS projects — A great intro to good Craft CMS config settings and the reason behind them
“The people who cannot sit through novels aren’t broken. They’re adapted to an environment we built. We hand them infinite information and wonder why they drown. We give them tools designed to fracture attention and blame them when their attention fractures. We built a world that profits from distraction and then pathologise the distracted.”
I feel like I could quote almost every in this essay about literacy and design. Well worth the time to read or listen.
https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem
To get slightly more context, read also my article on Progressive Web Components (just published!):
RE: https://front-end.social/@ariel/116288522052192356
This looks really awesome! I need to find a way to work this into a project pronto.
🔗 Stuff Everybody Knows — Great general advice about how to build on the web, agnostic of specific tools
🔗 Elena — A simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.
Over the weekend, I sat down to write an essay. I wanted to express some thoughts on our current political, economic, and technological landscape. (Yeah, I know.) Even as I started to write, something changed in the writing. A couple of lines in a rhyming couplet stuck with me, and the more I thought about them, the more a poem evolved around them.
This is what tumbled out:
https://stegrainer.com/journal/2026/what-if
🔗 Optician Sans — A free font based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians
Ariel Salminen
