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Andy Bell

Andy is the founder of Piccalilli and design agency, Set Studio. He mostly specialises in CSS — whether that is publishing an in-depth course on CSS and soft skills, writing a CSS course for Google, co-authoring a book on CSS layout, or creating a methodology to help people write better CSS.

He obsesses about designing and building for everyone with a sharp focus on progressive enhancement and being the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager.

Latest articles by Andy Bell

  1. A handy use of subgrid to enhance a simple layout

    subgrid in CSS is really handy for getting a nice level of design detail in place, especially in terms of maintaining a nice reading line, as Andy shows in this article.

    CSS

  2. Some interesting results from the 2025 Piccalilli survey

    We've taken a cut of the respondents from our 2025 survey, so it's time to break down what the data is telling us and how that relates to our longer term plans to go all-in on Piccalilli.

    Announcements

  3. Identifying issues with design assets

    We’ve just arrived the prototypes and technical planning sprint and up until this point the focus has been heavily swayed towards creativity. Now it’s all about working out what can work in the browser, what needs walking back and what needs fixing.

    Open Working Project: Course Brand Development

  4. Let’s talk about conversion optimisation and how we’re approaching it

    Andy runs through some common deceptive patterns and tactics that marketers use to manipulate users and then shows how we're doing things differently on our course marketing pages.

    Open Working Project: Course Brand Development

  5. We’d love to know your thoughts with the Piccalilli 2025 survey

    We always want to do better here at Piccalilli and we have ideas. It'll be really helpful if you could give us your opinion on those and also our bread and butter: educational content for the real world.

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