Barebone — Blog

The Case for Doing Less

Why removing features is harder — and more valuable — than adding them. A look at our design philosophy.

How intentional negative space creates hierarchy, focus, and breathing room.

A provocation: most sites would be better without a single line of JS.

The discipline of constraint in type selection and why it leads to better design.

We ship improvements, not announcements. Here's why we stopped keeping a public changelog.

The case for content-first workflows and why most websites get this backwards.

We challenged ourselves to build a complete site under 100KB. Here's what we learned.

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