So Very Bright

Let your logo or text outshine white on HDR screens.

My view on design engineers

"The person who owns whether a product still agrees with itself."

Can you use web fonts in email?

“Yes, but you really shouldn’t.”

Grids

When you start to notice they are everywhere.

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

You can now also create an image from a sketch.

The death of the button

The web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks.

Color accessibility isn’t just about contrast

The many color choices compliance misses.

Apple’s new iPhone photo authentication

How Apple wants to prove iPhone photos aren’t AI.

Creativity is your new moat

“So start giving credence to weird ideas.”

An ode to links

“We’ve built an entire culture around links.”

Clarity

A private editor and AI skill built on eighteen writing rules.

Limit the number of details

“Removing something gives you time back.”

The case against JPEG XL

“I don’t see how JPEG XL is even as good a fit as WebP.”

Tiny changes

“I see a six-month, multi-departmental war.”

Deceptive patterns

How information drifts to manipulation.

The invisible side of design engineering

“A lot of what makes a great experience is invisible.”

Design system conventions in Figma

Naming your architecture when the tool can’t.

Code Snacks

Engineering concepts animated for visual learners.

Designing with AI

Increasing speed without compromising quality.

A simple guide to calm UI

A few rules for less annoying interactions.

Figma just bought another AI company

Why are they betting on such a niche team?

Building your first side project with AI

A walkthrough for non-technical UX people.

Aphera

”A photo editor that brings delight back to editing.”

Elyx

A local-first design environment from the creators of Sketch.

Inclusive Design 24

Ready for 24 accessibility talks in 24 hours?

Don’t stretch your app for foldables

Why bending screens require adaptive layouts.

The AI that can’t write a single word

Jev just decides, and that’s the whole point.

Design tokens need more than semantics

Understand the structure, and the tokens follow.

Why is type measured in points?

How centuries of metal type still rule digital design.

Skip the tools, make the outcomes

Why build a tool when you can deliver the result?

Robots have no voice

“That’s why you find it annoying.”

Reading progress bars are bad UX

What’s the point of a second scrollbar?

Acquired taste

When AI challenges the idea of human-only taste.

More modern, more flexible, still Firefox

Firefox’s new design lands on desktop and mobile.

How to de-slopify your designs

A practical way to polish vibecoded one-offs.

Destroy any website

Turn websites into pixel playgrounds under fire.

Winner of Tiny Awards 2026

Celebrating this year’s most creative handmade website.

Jev for designers

Why the AI model is different and why it matters.

“We started editing ourselves so we wouldn’t sound like a machine, while the machine was edited so it wouldn’t sound like itself.”

Thinking orbs for AI interfaces

Animated AI status indicators for JavaScript/React.

Craft as care

”Craft is a way of looking at the world.”

Just let me in, please

“‘Ease of use’ can actually mean more friction.”

The economics of attention in the age of AI

When design becomes deciding what to leave out.

Amazing Glass

Liquid glass web components for HTML, React, and Vue.

Why icon consistency is harder than it looks

The unseen rules holding every icon set together.

Better images for less money

Google has released Nano Banana 2.1.

Six attributes describe any experience

Understand, access, control, monitor, relevant, adaptable.

ArtCraft Apps

AI-created open-source apps that feel like Adobe tools.

Many agents, many views

How to steer a swarm of AI agents.

Creative Intelligence 2026

“Creatives adopting AI are earning more than ever.”

The convergence of design

Why does everything end up looking the same?

This hue shall pass

Check and fix your color palette’s WCAG contrast.

Context libraries

How AI power users manage context engineering.

Better, faster, and cheaper user decisions

When judgment gets cheap, interfaces get smart.

What doesn’t get cheaper

Every disposable website has an expensive head.

Decision vs. outcome

“We decided based on what we knew.”

A different future for accessibility

Why the W3C is rebuilding its successful WCAG standard.

“I want to read words written by my fellow humans, from their hearts and minds, through the effort of trying to clearly express what it is they’re trying to communicate, because in that effort, they figure out what it is that they actually think and want to say.”

Someone behind the software

“I want to feel the creator behind the software, not the factories.”

The insidious effect of AI

Why AI’s speed is everyone else’s slowdown.

Design in the material you ship

“Understand code the way an architect understands stone.”

UX designers are not designing interfaces

“We are designing how people understand the world and themselves.”

Introducing Canva Craft

Canva’s first image model, trained to think like a designer.

Your product is not the center of the universe

It’s time to show up in a person-centric way.

Learn to ship

“Shipping is a true test of your idea.”

Color Names

Discover thousands of colors, named by people.

sliick

Create still or animated 3D device mockups.

Nobody asked for the sparkle button

“Build features with AI, not AI features.”

How AI is changing UX work

Time savings are real, but enthusiasm remains limited.

The state of typography in design systems

How 94 designers handle their type in practice.

Fast is a design decision

Building is cheap now, but waiting never was.

Best free fonts of 2026

From crowd favorites to hidden gems.

User Experience Salaries & Calculator 2026

Salaries of UX professionals from around the world.

The state of AI in design systems

What design teams do to stop AI drifting.

Tuning your AI instrument

Why “make this beautiful” works on my machine and not on yours.

Frankenstein‘s pattern

When design system components get stitched together.

“Design isn’t what happens after you understand the problem. Design is how you understand the problem.”

Who the f*ck is admin?

Why bylines matter more now AI can fake expertise.

Make your creative process repeatable

Figma Weave turns AI generation into reusable team workflows.

Experience Design

Dropping the “User” from “User Experience”.

Vibe Coding

“Maybe I shouldn’t have vibe-coded my costume.”

Bouuuuuh Villain

Lift Type’s spooky Halloween font for 2026.

NameThatUI

A visual dictionary of user interfaces.

Hallmark

“The design skill that ends AI slop.“

Context is the new interface

“The future of design lies in what happens between products.”

Dark patterns in online shopping

21 unethical practices spotted in over a decade.

Affinity finally comes to iPad

Illustrators get a free all-in-one app.

Agents struggle with bad UX too

Why they’re unusually honest usability testers.

AI can generate the interface

Not every moment wants confetti.

Chips and liquid information architecture

Navigation that flows with time, context, and person.

AI lets you pick three

Good, fast, cheap, coherent.

playgrnd

Tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things.

Interface Cheat Sheet

Practical rules that make interfaces feel finished.

Otherwise you’re just a machine

“AI is getting better at design. Designers should too.”

Introduction to usability

Jakob Nielsen’s classic primer, freshly updated.

“x is dead” is dead

Design tools didn’t die, the shared stack did.

Paperwall

A graphics design kit that runs offline in your browser.

FaceTypes

Hundreds of handpicked open fonts worth using.

Building an AI-ready design system library

“Code is the source of truth. Figma mirrors it.”

Designing layouts with personality

Distinctive grids begin with a company’s story.