Strong opinions on URL design

Well-structured URLs don’t happen by chance.

UI & UX micro-tips

Timeless ways to instantly improve your designs.

How I review design work

Defining what ‘good design’ actually looks like.

Adobe’s new free Photoshop app

Available on iOS now, coming to Android later.

Why I like designing in the browser

Benefits of designing with HTML, CSS, and JS.

Hello AI agents

“Goodbye UI design, RIP accessibility.”

Accessible design checklist

A quick reference checklist and a Penpot plugin.

In praise of off-screen menus

Sometimes it feels right to challenge best practices.

The Accessibility Icon Collection

A new take on inclusion/accessibility iconography.

The case against AI-generated users

”Design research is at an inflection point.”

Illustrating in Figma

How the design tool boosts illustration workflows.

User Interface Elements

An illustrated glossary of UI controls and elements.

Pinterest is being strangled by AI slop

The ‘web’s mood board’ suffers from AI spammers.

Truth, lies, and progress bars

Alternatives to deceptive progress indicators.

“You want ‘100% AI accessibility’? Try the Accessibility Intelligence of actual disabled people.”

The skill they never taught us

The art of navigating office politics in design.

Design Tokens

A glossary of concepts related to design tokens.

Top 5 misconceptions about measuring UX

Evaluating user experience is a tricky business.

Down in front!

What movie poster design can teach web designers.

Accessibility testing methods that work

Practical steps to test your website’s accessibility.

Penpot 2.5

New gems in the web-based design/frontend tool.

Atlas of Type

A directory of independent type design worldwide.

Inclusive Sans

A typeface where legibility meets readability.

T-shaped vs. V-shaped designers

Craft your own UX role when you need one.

Design systems need a color space

Ignoring color spaces is no longer an option.

Why website taxonomies drift

Addressing a website’s categorization deterioration.

Design Systems Report 2025

The nice-to-have era of design systems is over.

Sustainable UX

Can we balance engagement and sustainability?

HiPPO effect in product design

Ways to reduce high-level influence on design.

Our interfaces have lost their senses

Let’s put the you back in UI!

Your life in weeks

Document your life’s journey on your website.

somepx

An excellent set of handcrafted pixel fonts.

PostSpark

Craft impressive screenshots, mockups, and post images.

F-shaped reading

Often applies to content pages on the web.

Figma’s not a design tool

“It’s a Rube Goldberg machine for avoiding code.”

Free and open access in the age of AI

“The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge.”

GIMP 3.0

The image editor’s latest version, 7 years in the making.

Breadcrumbs are dead in web design

“It’s time to embrace adaptive, user-centric navigations.”

The 3 boring secrets of great UX copy

Great UX copy feels effortless to read.

Penpot’s pricing

The present and future pricing of the Figma alternative.

“Can you simplify this?”

Ways to streamline too much information.

The 14 types of onboarding UX/UI

Powerful onboarding patterns to engage users.

Hyper-personalization

A practical guide to scalable individualized UX design.

Oklchroma

Generate harmonious color scales based on OKLCH.

Triple Threat SVG icons

A set of icons in 3 states (normal, hover, and selected).

Consistent drop shadows across platforms

Matching shadows in CSS, Figma, Sketch, Android, and iOS.

In defense of fluid typography

A discussion on reimagining fluid typography.

Simplification takes courage

“Simplicity isn’t the absence of complexity, but rather complexity resolved.”

AI is the future of accessibility

“Let’s treat AI not as a threat, but as a tool we must shape.”

Can AI write contextual alt text?

Putting the 5 most popular AI models to the test.

Design handoff is broken

Beyond the limitations of traditional design handoff.

Making the move to UI3

Figma’s transition to a redesigned user interface.

Introducing 4o image generation

OpenAI has built its top image generator into ChatGPT.

A visual overview of 70+ UX metrics

The many ways to measure user experience.

The fallacy of optical alignment

“You don’t have to nudge, you can measure instead.”

A/B Test Design

Mobile design successes enabled by A/B testing.

Reve Image

An AI tool built to create beautiful visuals and lettering.

From real to digital

How UI components are inspired by real-world objects.

Symbl

A collection of symbols for designers and developers.

UX guidelines for better URL design

A closer look at what makes an effective URL.

Design is cumulative forward intent

“I don’t want your generative AI for design.”

The art of design tokens

A metaphor for the 3-tier token model.

Midjourney just dropped V7 alpha

The popular AI image generator takes a big step forward.

Make design fun again

“The heart of design is play, and we know it but forget to act on it.”

SnapGrid

An app for collecting and organizing UI screenshots.

Notification Psychology Lab

Learn what makes notifications hard to ignore.

“Love it!”

Our expectations of web page quality drop.

Fancy Components

Design elements and micro-interactions for your inspiration.

‘Your’ vs. ‘My’

What works best to address your users?

Nebula Sans

A versatile, modern, humanist sans-serif typeface.

More than 1,500 new fonts

Adobe expands its font library for Creative Cloud subscribers.

Writing the onboarding experience

How to help a product introduce itself.

The A-Z of design

Inspirations for designers to grow in their field.

Designers don’t need to code

”They need to learn to prompt.”

Vert

A powerful file converter that respects your privacy.

SVG Viewer

Edit, optimize, and convert SVGs, all on one site.

Design critique framework

A way to determine if a design meets its objectives.

Micro-disappointments break UX

When little things stack up into UX debt.

“In a hurried world with infinite content, it’s worth considering that you’re no longer paid by the word when you write. In fact, you should pay for every extra word you use.”

Tools don’t design, people do

The value of human judgment in the era of machines.

Error messages that actually help users

An opportunity to win user trust instead of losing it.

People’s Graphic Design Archive

A crowd-sourced virtual archive of graphic design.

Designing in the browser

Your starting point for in-browser mockups.

Character Creator

Generate fun avatars, personas, or placeholders.

The future or a UX nightmare?

AI-driven personalization in web design.

Welcome to the era of MEH

“Use AI, but don’t ever believe it’s the path to success.”

Design System Tactics

Tactics to help you make progress at every stage.

UI is communication

A communication-first approach to UI design.

Users hate waiting

How to make loading screens a bit enjoyable.

Just in time content

“We’re going to see publishing change even more.”

Design isn’t dead

Let’s move on from the same tired headline.

Button states

Effective indication of 5 button conditions.

The big UX quiz

118 questions to challenge your UX knowledge.

The oppressive foundation of minimalist design

‘Good design’ may just be cultural conformity in disguise.

Taste in design is a dead-end

“What you should have is a point of view.”

Changing scrollbar colors

What to consider when coloring modern scrollbars.

Beyond the prompt

Which AI tool actually works for designers?

Figma AI tools

A review of the design platform’s latest AI features.

Good vs. great animations

Practical techniques to elevate your animations.

Bias in design systems

Towards a more sustainable design system program.