Practical notes on building useful digital tools: small experiments, tested examples and lessons from shipping. Written by Hao Wu, an independent product maker. Currently building Stylegrab. Product development and writing use AI assistance.
The color matches. The corners look right. Yet your copied button is still narrower than the reference. Before adding a fixed width or moving the surrounding layout, compare the values that make up th
Two buttons are 24 pixels apart. Should you change gap, margin or padding? The number alone cannot tell you. A measurement describes the rendered geometry. A CSS property describes one of the rules th
A button can look correct on its original page and change color when moved into another project. Before adding more declarations, check whether the color actually belongs to the button or comes from i
