The little red dot

A simple design element is hacking our brain.

Claude is an Electron app

How native software lost its edge to web apps.

Supercharging Figma design systems

Tips from early testers of slots.

Motion Folios

Portfolios from top motion designers worldwide.

Using dashes

How to apply them more mindfully than AI.

Menus don’t need the 7±2 rule

“Be suspicious of magical UX laws.”

When anyone can build anything

What’s worth building when building is free?

Managing icon component sizes

“It’s time to retire that icon wrapper component.”

What’s My ΔE(OK) JND?

Test your Just Noticeable Difference in color perception.

“We are no longer designing screens. We are designing the intelligence that designs for us.”

Archive of Archives

A curated collection of digital archives.

Human strategy in AI workflows

“The future of UX is more intentional than ever.”

How fast is fast enough?

Rethinking web performance in pragmagical terms.

ColorFlow

A powerful mesh gradient generator and editor.

Details that make UIs feel better

Great interfaces rarely come from a single thing.

The 49MB web page

“Your frustration is the product.”

Design Systems Report 2026

“The industry is maturing, but so are its growing pains.”

Introducing “vibe design” with Stitch

Google brings ideas to life on an AI design canvas.

The high cost of low usability

How Balsamiq’s redesign broke rapid wireframing.

Adobe Firefly can now learn your style

It imitates your artwork through custom training.

Durable patterns in AI product design

UI models that remain relevant as AI evolves.

Agentic UX

7 principles for designing systems with agents.

Datatype

A variable font that turns text into charts.

Symbl

Preview your logo under visual stress.

theSVG

A vast library of brand icons in vector format.

Why most design principles fail

“The problem is that most design principles don’t work.”

Designing for emergence

When your product starts designing its own future.

Top ten Figma betrayals

”Figma is not exactly conducive to responsive web design.”

What is your site’s AI chatbot for?

Why users have little reason to use it.

Design patterns for building trust

“The goal isn’t maximum trust, it’s calibrated trust.”

Onboarding is a transaction

It’s your peak moment to learn from users.

Who can actually afford AI tools now?

How today’s pricing models shape access to AI.

Vibe design is real

What Google Stitch’s update means for designers.

Don’t design for average users

”The era of the ‘average user’ must end.”

The artisanal web

”Make something weird and wonderful of your own.”

Mockdown

Sketch a UI and export it as Markdown.

Cascade Icons

Hand-crafted icons for CSS properties and their values.

The big box vs. site search paradox

Let’s win users back from global to local search.

I built a design team out of AI agents

A workflow for orchestrating 10 specialized agents.

Design debt is now like technical debt

Rapid AI adoption risks systemic UX failures.

Kolr

A complete color toolkit for designers and developers.

The creative infinite

“The barriers to creation have fully eroded.”

Craft is untouchable

“AI doesn’t threaten craft—the temptation to skip iteration does.”

HueGrid

Create and explore vivid patterns and gradients.

Why OKLCH

“Define colors perceptually, derive everything else.”

A practical guide to design principles

Choosing principles that shape design decisions.

Why every UI problem is an IA problem

“You’re already doing information architecture.”

The invisible layer of UX

Why designers must hear what they build.

Train your judgement on animations

“Settling for good enough is not good enough.”

The 3 C’s of informational microcopy

Clarity and Concision set the stage for Character.

Handmade designs

AI-fatigued users prefer websites with a human touch.

Delphi Tools

A wonderful set of handmade utilities for web creators.

A new Wakamai Fondue

Relaunch of the beloved font explorer.

The design engineer symptom

What a rising job title reveals.

Green components

Applying W3C’s sustainability guidelines to design systems.

Documentation for humans and AI

Rethinking product documentation to serve both.

”We’re not designing interfaces anymore. We’re designing how interfaces are created.”

AI feels like a drug

When dependency is dressed as efficiency.

Figma is no longer the source of truth

“Storybook replaced Figma as our shared working surface.”

Introducing Claude Design

Anthropic Labs’ new tool for co-designing with Claude.

Shader Lab

Seamlessly create, layer, and animate shaders.

3dsvg

Easily turn SVGs into interactive 3D objects.

Start designing in content, not in code

“Putting the cart before the horse is not giving you real velocity wins.”

Images that look brighter than your screen

How to (ab)use HDR images for marketing.

Claude Design just dropped

Where it shines and where it struggles.

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

“Figma’s Sketch moment is rapidly approaching.”

“The faster agents move, the more valuable design judgement will become.”

How to use Claude Design for UX/UI

Every workflow starts with the design system.

Design token naming conventions

Building a clear, consistent, and scalable structure.

“The design system is no longer just documentation for developers. It is instructions for a machine.”

Good designers, bad websites

Using personas to spot accessibility gaps early.

The courage to stop

“Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement.”

Pica

A mighty font manager built for macOS.

Wiretext

Draw wireframes and export them as Markdown.

The perfect file upload pattern

When users don’t need to press the upload button.

Claude for creative work

Connected to Adobe, Canva, Blender, and other tools.

UI patterns that won’t survive

How AI reshapes traditional design patterns.

Wicked websites

A gallery of modern web design villains.

Four levels of customer understanding

Why feedback never fully reveals customer needs.

Finally, the handoff is dead

Why faster teams still struggle to build together.

Accessibility myths and pushbacks

How to address common accessibility objections.

Joyful web design

“Joy should be a design goal.”

openDAW

A powerful music studio inside your browser.

Open Design

Use your coding agent as a design engine.

Session timeouts

The overlooked accessibility barrier in authentication design.

Pairing fonts the easy way

How to create beautiful font pairings in 5 steps.

Is form design easy?

The illusion of simplicity in form design.

Agent experience

Why AX is becoming the new UX.

Agents with taste

Turning design taste into rules agents can follow.

Building an AI agent that designs like me

A field guide for designers, builders, and operators.

AI design has no soul

The role of typography in the AI age.

State of prototyping (Spring 2026)

“The most-used design tool after Figma is now an AI.”

Testing agents on design systems

Can agents effectively use a design system?

The AI mindset shift

“The shift from doer to conductor is coming.”

Cognitive Bias Index

A tool for spotting and reducing thinking errors.

RYBitten

A playground for RYB-inspired digital color.

Analysis of 158 design systems

“Many aren’t ready for a human to use properly, let alone a machine.“

Revive your design superpowers

“You are more powerful than you realize.”

Workroom: Mini Apps

Widgets to refine and polish visuals as you go.

Rethinking design with your hands

The return of human vitality in a synthetic design world.