DesignTools
Workroom: Mini Apps
Widgets to refine and polish visuals as you go.
DesignSamples
Rethinking design with your hands
The return of human vitality in a synthetic design world.
DesignResources
The Mindful Design Toolkit
Essential tools for responsible product design.
DesignTalks
Wonders of Web Weaving
Talks with someone who loves crafting websites.
DesignResources
Refero Styles
Real product design systems in DESIGN.md for AI agents.
DesignSamples
Designing mutualistic interfaces
“There is another face on the other side of the interface.”
DesignSamples
Reimagining the pointer for the AI era
When the cursor turns into an AI companion.
DesignOpinions
The old typography is new again
“Optical sizing is once again relevant in digital design.”
DesignTools
Accessibility Tools
A practical toolkit for accessible product design.
DesignOpinions
User interfaces and “blandification”
Why does 2026 look like 2016, which looks like 2006?
DesignTools
Fontastic Space
Discover optimal font pairings through typography metrics.
DesignResources
The case for design disposables
Good design work isn’t always a deliverable.
DesignOpinions
You are no longer the user
”The substrate is the new field of design.”
DesignSamples
Component examples as data
What’s possible for designers and machines alike.
DesignTools
First look at Figma Agent
Putting the new AI design companion to the test.
DesignOpinions
AI can replace designers?
“If AI can replace your designers, you never understood design.”
DesignSamples
A few interesting modern pixel fonts
Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Geist Pixel.
DesignSamples
Designing like it’s 1999
“Design for where the puck is going.”
DesignResources
Making information hierarchies work
The role of scent in broad and deep information structures.
DesignTools
Glyph Finder
Find Adobe Fonts that support a given Unicode character.
DesignSamples
Error hiding is not error prevention
Why the ’accept’ attribute degrades file upload UX.
DesignSamples
A framework for designing AI systems
Turning use cases into AI-powered products.
DesignSamples
Does AI find real UI problems?
“False alarms and hallucinations dominate.”
DesignSamples
Write-first design
Writing exposes bad design before it gets expensive.
DesignOpinions
Being an AI-native designer
What 30 design leaders say it really is.
DesignResources
The four design jobs AI created so far
“AI design” has forked into different types of work.
DesignResources
Griddy Icons
An icon family with a distinctive utilitarian style.
DesignOpinions
Daily Designer
Design insights distilled into daily reflections.
DesignOpinions
The trouble with font previews
“Fonts are so much more feral than you think.”
DesignTools
What’s new in Penpot release 2.16
WebGL rendering beta, better design token integration, and more.
DesignTools
SVG Dot Grids
Create customizable dot grid patterns in seconds.
DesignResources
SHRTCTS
Learn keyboard shortcuts for apps you use daily.
DesignSamples
Did Lovable’s AI build a 100% accessible site?
When AI sites improve with human accessibility expertise.
DesignSamples
Designing with uncertainty
How AI supercharges probabilistic thinking.
DesignOpinions
The UI is still not the point
“We used to hand over screens and now we hand over intent.”
DesignResources
Storied Colors
A catalog of named colors with documented histories.
DesignResources
Product Design Psychology
“I wrote a book. Took me 10 years.”
DesignOpinions
Consistency, but in excellence
When consistency is judged by appearance.
DesignTools
Going from Figma to code with AI
“I’ve tested every tool. None of them works alone.”
DesignOpinions
Less is more, more or less
Where knowing what not to build matters most.
DesignOpinions
Rethinking Figma in an AI world
The company is up against a new way of building products.
DesignOpinions
Navigating the maze
“The web lost its personality and soul.”
DesignSamples
Handwritten blog
A blog where every post and comment is written by hand.
DesignTools
Google’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite
The image model balances cost, speed, and quality.
DesignTools
Everything new in Figma at Config 2026
“It feels like Figma is stepping further onto Adobe’s turf than ever.”
DesignTools
Figma is building accessibility into its canvas
“We created a Mirror DOM structure.”
DesignResources
Designing finger-friendly interactions
“Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you.”
DesignSamples
This page left intentionally blank
“In our age of generative AI, a blank page is a deliberate act!”
DesignSamples
TOLIS C
A design engineer’s creative web space.
DesignTrends
Wait, who made this?
The rise of creative provenance.
DesignOpinions
Design engineering
What it is, how it’s changed, and where it’s going.
DesignOpinions
Should we drop “Responsive” for design?
Rethinking “Responsive Design” and “Adaptive Design”.
DesignResources
Type consistency in changing conditions
How grade preserves visual balance across contexts.
DesignSamples
I tested 4 top AI design tools
How they solved the same UX design challenge.
DesignOpinions
Let’s fix the web’s text size
Introducing the HTML ‘text-scale’ meta element.
DesignTools
Penpot 2.17
The design tool brings long-awaited features.
DesignOpinions
An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop
“So long, Photoshop, you are well past your prime.”
DesignOpinions
The terminal became my canvas
“It’s great… but horrible at the same time.”
DesignResources
The grammar of color
The vocabulary behind every color choice.
DesignOpinions
Taste cannot be delegated
The death of design by committee in the age of AI.
DesignOpinions
Accessibility is resistance!
”Remove the need for people to use AI to compensate.”
DesignSamples
Why design teams struggle with AI
“AI is nowhere near as good at design as it is at coding.”
DesignResources
Does your form really need a dropdown list?
“Misuse can cause more harm than alternatives.”
DesignOpinions
Naive design is better than AI design
“I promise it will look better than anything AI can produce.”
DesignTools
Resistenza Type Tools
A collection of creative tools for working with type.
DesignFun
Lorem Ipsum
Even cartoonists use it for their strips.
DesignOpinions
Why is AI bad at design?
“Code can be verified, but design can’t.”
DesignOpinions
Why I don’t use interruption pages
The best interruption is often no interruption at all.
DesignResources
Not tokens
What to ask before creating any design token.
DesignSamples
/loop
What AI loop engineering means for designers.
DesignSamples
UX is dead, what’s next?
Enshittification manipulates AI agents as it does humans.
DesignOpinions
Components are dead
Consistency moved from the component to the token.
DesignResources
Colors your screen can’t show you
“You’ll feel crazy once you see it.”
DesignOpinions
The favicon survived the web
“It never tried to become more than it was.”
DesignResources
UI SFX
Interface sound effects in twelve sonic feels.
DesignResources
Cuelume
Tiny sounds that make interfaces feel alive.
DesignOpinions
The bull and bear case for digital design
AI forces designers into power or irrelevance.
DesignOpinions
The accessibility paradox
“The blind web, quite literally, helped teach AI how to see.”
DesignTrends
The AI aesthetic
Design idioms shaped by the AI zeitgeist.
DesignOpinions
Rethinking friction in an AI world
Why the best UX often disappears, and when it shouldn’t.
DesignOpinions
A prototype is not a product
“Some of the most valuable prototypes don’t become products.”
DesignOpinions
No new name has replaced “UX”
Despite the debate, “UX” still serves the field well.
DesignResources
Designing for the proxy
Why AI is changing who reads first.
DesignTools
The last product design tool
“Wireframes are so back.”
DesignSamples
Turning opinions into constraints
Make your principles actionable via the rewrite ladder.
DesignSamples
Dark mode toggles only need two states
“The tri-state control is solving a largely imaginary user goal.”
DesignOpinions
Defining ethical design for machines
Ethical principles need shared rules to guide AI.
DesignOpinions
The fastest way to upskill in the age of AI
“Nothing compares to what you learn by making.”
DesignSamples
Authenticity problem
”Did I ever tell you how much I learned my skills from your art?”
DesignResources
ShieldFont
An open-source font that poisons AI-scraped text.
DesignResources
What’s the purpose of information architecture?
“IA is still widely misunderstood.”
DesignOpinions
Everyone is designing with AI, not for it
“We are moving from ‘Responsive Web Design’ to ‘Malleable Design.’”
DesignSamples
Light-dark-system theme setting
How two icons can control three theme states.
DesignSamples
The art of AI skill writing
Say it once clearly so models never guess again.
DesignSamples
Don’t use AI for icons
A simpler way than endlessly prompting AI for better icons.
DesignSamples
A design language is more than a visual theme
Shaping meaning instead of assembling components.
DesignTools
How Claude’s text watermark works
Anthropic’s way to make their AI generated texts detectable.
DesignOpinions
RIP Claude
“Anthropic’s current strategy is aggressively writer-hostile.”
DesignOpinions
Bring back the paragraph
Do you really want do write like AI?
DesignResources
No AI Slop
Remove 20+ patterns of AI slop from your writing.