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“In our age of generative AI, a blank page is a deliberate act!”
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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”.
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Type consistency in changing conditions
How grade preserves visual balance across contexts.
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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.”
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The terminal became my canvas
“It’s great… but horrible at the same time.”
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The grammar of color
The vocabulary behind every color choice.
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Taste cannot be delegated
The death of design by committee in the age of AI.
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Accessibility is resistance!
”Remove the need for people to use AI to compensate.”
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Why design teams struggle with AI
“AI is nowhere near as good at design as it is at coding.”
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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.
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Not tokens
What to ask before creating any design token.
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/loop
What AI loop engineering means for designers.
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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.
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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.”
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UI SFX
Interface sound effects in twelve sonic feels.
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Cuelume
Tiny sounds that make interfaces feel alive.
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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.
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Designing for the proxy
Why AI is changing who reads first.
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The last product design tool
“Wireframes are so back.”
DesignSamples
Turning opinions into constraints
Make your principles actionable via the rewrite ladder.
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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.”
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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.
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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.’”
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Light-dark-system theme setting
How two icons can control three theme states.
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The art of AI skill writing
Say it once clearly so models never guess again.
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Don’t use AI for icons
A simpler way than endlessly prompting AI for better icons.
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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.
DesignResources
Paper Mono
A beautiful monospace font for design and code.
DesignOpinions
AI text watermarking is not a big deal
“It doesn’t make AI outputs more detectable in practice.”
DesignSkills
Claude Code 101, for designers
Models, tokens, agents, MCP, and friends.
DesignTools
Favicons to Go
Drop an image, get all the icons for your site.
DesignFun
The AI Scarlet Letter
“AI detected in your writing!”
DesignSkills
How to become an AI designer
A realistic guide to shipping your own designs.
DesignTools
Choosing an AI model
One prompt, 11 models, very different results.
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The case for tri-state dark mode toggles
“Clarity is exactly what users want most.”
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Spec-Driven UI component development
Delivering design intent across design, code, and docs.
DesignFun
The inventor
“I’ve invented a machine that makes content.”
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How to choose a UI font
The two metrics behind every working UI typeface.
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Juncture
Four unique industrial typefaces in one versatile superfamily.
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All in Frame
A stock photography collection led by disabled creatives.
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Scandinavian Design
Bring Scandinavian minimalism to any website.
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Big-bang redesigns vs. legacy modernization
Picking the right legacy migration strategy.
DesignOpinions
Should a dialog close when clicked outside?
“It depends on context and intent.”
DesignResources
Readers can’t identify watermarked AI text
So you think you can spot the watermarks?
DesignSkills
What does an AI agent look like?
An introduction for design systems practitioners.
DesignResources
The 4 Hs of HTML
Nailing head, header, heading, and headline for smoother handoffs.
DesignResources
The birth of digital letterspacing
The mechanical roots of monospace typefaces.
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Rethinking data visualization
A UX approach to dashboards that actually drives decisions.
DesignTools
Denote
Turn product thinking into a spec AI builds from.
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AI operating principles
Five principles for amplifying design without dulling it.
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Little bits of intelligence
”When software can think, we can rethink the UI of software.”
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Atlas
Mac app for moodboards, references, and visual inspiration.
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Typographic tourism
The art of hunting for beautiful signs all over the world.
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How to write accessible times
Ways to format times for clarity and accessibility.
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Measuring the impact of AI on design
“AI is changing design work fast.”
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The case for spec-driven design
“Faster prototypes miss the point.”
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Making destructive actions accessible
How to design and review irreversible flows inclusively.
DesignOpinions
Design has outgrown the traditional designer
Why design education must imagine a different student.
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Creating a great newsletter landing page
A look at well-built examples you can learn from.
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Invisible interfaces
“The best interface of the coming years might be one you never see.”
DesignOpinions
Should we even have a dark mode toggle?
“The best dark mode toggle is probably none.”
DesignTools
Introducing Noun Studio
Create unique icons or build consistent icon sets.
DesignTools
So Very Bright
Let your logo or text outshine white on HDR screens.
DesignOpinions
My view on design engineers
"The person who owns whether a product still agrees with itself."
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Can you use web fonts in email?
“Yes, but you really shouldn’t.”
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Grids
When you start to notice they are everywhere.
DesignTools
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
You can now also create an image from a sketch.
DesignSamples
The death of the button
The web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks.
DesignResources
Color accessibility isn’t just about contrast
The many color choices compliance misses.
DesignTools
Apple’s new iPhone photo authentication
How Apple wants to prove iPhone photos aren’t AI.
DesignOpinions
Creativity is your new moat
“So start giving credence to weird ideas.”
DesignOpinions
An ode to links
“We’ve built an entire culture around links.”
DesignTools
Clarity
A private editor and AI skill built on eighteen writing rules.
DesignOpinions
Limit the number of details
“Removing something gives you time back.”