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Stephanie Stimac — Author of "Design for Developers"

Stephanie Stimac on web standards, design, and product management. Author of "Design for Developers".

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Stephanie writes about the web platform, design, product management, and the occasional life update — always with the warmth of someone who genuinely cares about making the web better. She's authored "Design for Developers" and spent years working on browser standards. The blog feels like getting advice from a thoughtful friend who happens to work at the cutting edge of web technology.

Written by Stephanie Stimac since 2019.

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2025 Year in Review

December 18, 2025

When I reflect on 2025 it's hard to not focus on one thing: that I was pregnant (and still am as of this moment. Due in 2 weeks.) It is easy to just say that's what the year was full of and that's that. 4 months before I found out I was pregnant, I had written down my 2024 recap and what my hopes and dreams for 2025 were. They were as follows: Exploring more of the UK Get my UK license Establish a routine of barre & reformer pilates (in progress!) More frequent fancy spa days Create a commu...

Going on maternity leave

December 12, 2025

tl;dr summary # I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where the last eight and a half months have gone but here we are! It's a very weird feeling to be prepping and handing off projects. All of my co-workers have been so lovely and supportive, and were especially supportive when I said I needed to start my leave earlier. These final weeks have been so emotionally and physically challenging. I'm looking forward to hunkering down and resting and doing whate...

Can it ever be the way it was?

November 16, 2025

Social media feels like it's in the throes of decay. Not just one platform, but multiple platforms. We've lost the social aspect and are only getting the media, and the general vibe I'm getting from people is that they're tired. The frustration with Instagram is palpable with folks on Threads. Creators are tired of their content not being shown to their followers and followers are tired of not being able to see content from people that they're actually following. Something happened in the last m...

Data and acquired consent

November 4, 2025

Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's okay...until it's not. If you're a brand, a content creator, or just someone on the internet, and you come across someone sharing their email on a platform for the purpose of being contacted for an opportunity, collaboration, maybe you have a question...those are all fine reasons to use someone's email. What is not fine is taking someone's email and signing them up for your newsletter or your affili...

ChatGPT Atlas isn't competing against other browsers

October 22, 2025

“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that's using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I'm shocked, but this is a company led by someone who thinks artists, creators, writers, etc should not be paid for their work. These are the words of someone who doesn't understand browser development or the web platform...

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