# Collaborating to Build an Uncertain Layout

DevFeed: [Collaborating to Build an Uncertain Layout](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/collaborating-to-build-an-uncertain-layout-30764.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2021/collaborating-to-build-an-uncertain-layout>)

Author: Yaphi Berhanu

Published: 2021-09-22T15:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Squarespace](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/squarespace.md>), [Squarespace Engineering Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/squarespace-engineering-blog.md>)

Topics: [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/implementation.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/consistency.md>)

Tags: [auto-layout](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auto-layout.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [flexibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flexibility.md>), [functionality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/functionality.md>), [layout](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/layout.md>), [product-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

Squarespace engineers and designers collaborated to create Auto Layouts, a system that lets users rearrange website content into different layout styles with less manual block manipulation. The system favors ease of use and design consistency while retaining traditional block-based layouts for greater flexibility.

## Source excerpt

How do you make a website look good when you can't know how that website will look? It turns out this is one of the fundamental questions we work with at Squarespace. Since one of our goals is to make it easy for our users to create beautiful websites, we need to walk a delicate balance between constraints and freedom. So, how do we navigate that balance?