Lea Verou

On this page Specifiers vs URLs Improving import maps Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention. JS, Web Standards, Web Platform, Web Architecture No, this is not another rant about npm’s security issues. Abstraction is the cornerstone of modern software engineering.

On this page It’s all about the curve User effort as a currency Avoid usability cliffs Maximize signal-to-noise ratio You cannot uncover friction by asking users User needs come first Consumers over Producers Life by a thousand ✨ sprinkles of delight ✨ Conclusion Treat user effort as a currency. To create a product users love, design the tradeoff curve of use case complexity to user effort with the same care you design your pricing scheme.

On this page Design Principles The pain of creating accessible components 🚢 it, squirrel! I set out to announce two components I wrote for displaying Bluesky likes and ended up ranting about the pain of building accessible, localizable web components in 2025. The components are still here, though — lucky you? I’m old enough to remember the golden Web 2.0 era, when many of today’s big social media platforms grew up. A simpler time, when the Web was much more extroverted.