How I approach motion in product design

A framework to design animated user interfaces.

PixiEditor

An all-in-one editor for your 2D designs.

Highlighting used components on a page

A new way to audit design system usage.

Sketching with AI?

Think with your hands first, without AI.

From grief to exec

How AI is disrupting design systems.

The beauty of a text-only webpage

“You’re contributing to a simple, calm, and happier internet.”

html.to.design

Convert a website into editable Figma designs.

Stress test data for web projects

Some go-to test data to push designs to the limits.

Affinity mapping that doesn’t suck

A powerful way to distill your research findings.

“Memorable websites aren’t just trendy. They’re accessible.”

AI pitfalls for product designers

How to avoid wasting time with AI prototypes.

Universal design vs. inclusive design

Two ways of achieving digital/physical accessibility.

Designing the future of reading

“Skimming isn’t the death of reading, it’s the beginning.”

Newsletter-blog vs. blog-newsletter

Which publishing approach should you choose?

Woolean

Rank anything together through pairwise voting.

Unique sites, but not always accessible

The hidden accessibility costs of nonstop motion.

Raycast for designers

How the toolkit can simplify a designer’s daily tasks.

Mitigating groupthink in workshops

Some facilitation methods to overcome mediocre ideas.

AI design systems with MCP

When the system starts to think with you.

The first rule of ARIA

Benefits of sticking with built-in HTML controls.

Product images with Gemini 2.5 Flash

How to create consistent images for a product.

The history of themeable user interfaces

Let’s learn from the past to inform our future.

“Your” vs. “My” in user interfaces

A simple rule of thumb for when to use each.

Nordic Design Gallery

Web design inspirations from Nordic countries.

LosslessCut

A versatile tool for lossless video/audio editing.

UX fatigue

When your website asks for too much.

Inclusive products are green products

How inclusive design principles foster sustainability.

Designing for ephemerality

The value of building with the product’s end in mind.

Why confetti celebrations backfire

“It’s not the confetti that makes a celebration work.”

Adobe’s new free Premiere app

Available soon on iOS, coming to Android later.

You don’t need animations

Know when and how to use animations.

The good, the bad, and the iffy

Is there such a thing as an ethical designer?

Atlas of Space

An interactive visualization of the solar system.

Classic Mac patterns

The original 8×8-pixel black and white patterns.

Google Nano Banana techniques

Advanced image editing with Gemini Flash Image.

Auditing design systems for accessibility

How to fix accessibility issues at the system-level.

Flags Overflow

Easily compare the best country flag icon libraries.

“We call this design theater: the minimal application of user-centered design processes and principles to cover up a process centered entirely on stakeholder whims.”

“Shout-out to the client who just sent me a mockup titled ‘temporary final’.”

Why joy sustains serious work

How design details make hard work feel lighter.

Accessible writing techniques

How your web content reaches more people.

The design of shallow thinking

How can we design more enlightening digital spaces?

SearchSystem

A living collection of references and tools for designers.

Path to CSS Shape

Convert SVG path data to CSS shape() function.

AI style guides for product copy

When machines choose not to follow the rules.

Ditch those words

“It’s the fastest way to make a design more easily understood.”

Design System Awards 2025

The finalists of this year’s submissions.

Designing confirmation dialogs

How to craft dialogs that enhance user trust.

I’m not a robot

Take your CAPTCHA experience to the next level.

Innovation by Design 2025

The winners of Fast Company’s annual design awards.

World Illustration Awards 2025

The winners of the renowned illustration awards.

Prompting Google Nano Banana

Useful prompts for routine design tasks.

Figma Make gallery

AI-generated projects from the Figma community.

“The tools got easier. The job got harder. But for people willing to focus on what actually matters—understanding humans and building things they genuinely want—this is the best time ever to build something meaningful.”

Functional personas with AI

How to breathe new life into a stale UX asset.

From a blog post to a magazine

Say hello to the Niche Design magazine.

Unstructured input in AI apps

“No form is the best kind of web form design.”

Offering clients more than a Figma file

A documentation that bridges design and code.

Designing for problem-unaware users

Why it matters and how to approach it.

Vibe code straight from your website

Prototype where your product already lives.

Design dialects

“Design systems must learn to speak dialects.”

The art of prototyping

Lessons, not the artifact, are their real value.

Accessibility-specific design annotations

What to annotate and how to do it clearly for all.

A new-ish approach to web typography

“Typography’s role is to serve meaning, not convenience.”

Anyone can build anything?

“AI will happily design the wrong thing for you.”

Practical animation tips

Ways to make your animations feel more delightful.

Why I hate the MVP car

“A petty tirade, years in the making.”

Photoshop/Premiere Elements 2026

What’s new in Adobe’s image and video editor.

Creating a typographic hierarchy

A guide for making your type do the talking.

Design Sketchplanations

Delightful visual explanations for designers.

When interfaces design themselves

”It’s not only possible; it’s already happening.”

Using AI agents in product design

A tutorial to create an AI agent in ChatGPT.

A synthesizer for color

”My color palette generator just sucks less.”

Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles

How to apply the renowned principles in practice.

“Designers no longer control the experience, they guide it. Today, design means shaping the behavior of intelligent systems. It means making that behavior legible, trustworthy, and valuable.”

Accessibility testing comparison

Automated testing vs. human auditing vs. usability testing.

Case studies are the real product

Why case studies outlast shiny design artifacts.

Stop neglecting it

Your design portfolio is your calling card.

When your website makes you smile

The tiny things can make a huge difference.

The Creative Cheat Sheet

Resources and tools for creative minds.

Prompting isn’t the future

“The breakthrough will come when prompting feels like play.”

Guardrails for AI agents

Preventing AI agents from behaving in undesirable ways.

Where’s the AI design renaissance?

“Good design comes from a broader process.”

Designing for distress

Accessibility shows its value when people need it most.

Screen reader misconceptions

How screen readers work in practice.

Improving accessibility in Figma

Figma enhances screen reader and keyboard navigation.

Designing amiable web spaces

Lessons from Vienna’s café culture.

UI design with ChatGPT 5

AI-driven UI design as an alternative to Figma.

The 12 emotional color journeys

A fresh perspective on color psychology in design.

Designing for intention instead of navigation

What Perplexity’s AI browser reveals about UX’s future.

Design audit using ChatGPT 5

A structured approach to an AI design audit.

Tackling common UX hurdles with AI

How AI lets us rethink established design patterns.

Call to actions that gets clicked

How to design CTAs that drive measurable results.

The web has gone grey

Let’s make the web a more colorful space!

Purple

“Stop making the buttons purple!”

Why do we need dithering?

When noise in digital images became beauty.

Design systems for a new era

Figma helps teams scale design systems with AI.

AI image editing showdown

State-of-the-art image editing models compared.

Bad UX World Cup 2025

Who has crafted the most terrifying date picker?

Canva introduces all-in-one Affinity

It unites photo, vector, and layout tools for free.