Raindrop.io Bookmarks 03/05/2025

2025年3月5日

• What the Internet Was Like in 1994 | Cybercultural

  "There were just 623 websites in the entire world at the beginning of the year. By June 1994, that figure had risen to 2,738 and by year's end it had tipped over 10,000. So the Web's exponential growth began in 1994, although it wasn't yet a mainstream technology."

• Structuring Design Tokens for Interactive States

  "Both property-specific tokens and semantic group tokens have their place in a well-structured design system. The choice between them depends on the level of control required, the scale of the design system, and the need for customization. In many cases, a hybrid approach offers the best balance, allowing generalization with the option for targeted overrides."

• UX Is Dead, Long Live UX

  "The recent wave of UX layoffs and the speculation about AI replacing product designers suggest that some business leaders have forgotten a fundamental truth: value to customers equals value to business. This value exchange is what creates satisfied, loyal customers."

• Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 - The History of the Web

  "That's when Stack realized that networks, and later the Internet and the web, wouldn't simply give shoppers somewhere new to find something they needed. It would give entirely new shoppers a way to find something they never thought they'd have access to. It was an idea that fueled what would eventually become ecommerce."

• Accessible Design Checklist

  "Improve your design's accessibility with this quick reference checklist and Penpot plugin."

• Digital Postcards | Club for the Future

  "Design and send postcards to space from your device. Your digital postcards will journey to space and back aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on a dedicated hard drive. Once they have returned from space, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access your postcards."

• The Professional Standing of Frontend Developers · Frontend Dogma

  "Developers must stay ahead by understanding AI's capabilities and limitations, ensuring that automation enhances rather than replaces their expertise. The ability to integrate AI solutions effectively into frontend workflows is becoming an essential skill, making adaptability and a proactive learning mindset more crucial than ever."

• Tim Frick On Web Sustainability And Building A Greener Digital World | DesignWhine

  "For sustainability, we don't have the luxury of time to get it right. Climate change and ecological destruction are here now, today. People are increasingly alienated by the enshittification of online platforms they use every day. At what point do we collectively start to take all this seriously and change our practices?"