”We’re not designing interfaces anymore. We’re designing how interfaces are created.”

AI feels like a drug

When dependency is dressed as efficiency.

Figma is no longer the source of truth

“Storybook replaced Figma as our shared working surface.”

Introducing Claude Design

Anthropic Labs’ new tool for co-designing with Claude.

Shader Lab

Seamlessly create, layer, and animate shaders.

3dsvg

Easily turn SVGs into interactive 3D objects.

Start designing in content, not in code

“Putting the cart before the horse is not giving you real velocity wins.”

Images that look brighter than your screen

How to (ab)use HDR images for marketing.

Claude Design just dropped

Where it shines and where it struggles.

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

“Figma’s Sketch moment is rapidly approaching.”

“The faster agents move, the more valuable design judgement will become.”

How to use Claude Design for UX/UI

Every workflow starts with the design system.

Design token naming conventions

Building a clear, consistent, and scalable structure.

“The design system is no longer just documentation for developers. It is instructions for a machine.”

Good designers, bad websites

Using personas to spot accessibility gaps early.

The courage to stop

“Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement.”

Pica

A mighty font manager built for macOS.

Wiretext

Draw wireframes and export them as Markdown.

The perfect file upload pattern

When users don’t need to press the upload button.

Claude for creative work

Connected to Adobe, Canva, Blender, and other tools.

UI patterns that won’t survive

How AI reshapes traditional design patterns.

Wicked websites

A gallery of modern web design villains.

Four levels of customer understanding

Why feedback never fully reveals customer needs.

Finally, the handoff is dead

Why faster teams still struggle to build together.

Accessibility myths and pushbacks

How to address common accessibility objections.

Joyful web design

“Joy should be a design goal.”

openDAW

A powerful music studio inside your browser.

Open Design

Use your coding agent as a design engine.

Session timeouts

The overlooked accessibility barrier in authentication design.

Pairing fonts the easy way

How to create beautiful font pairings in 5 steps.

Is form design easy?

The illusion of simplicity in form design.

Agent experience

Why AX is becoming the new UX.

Agents with taste

Turning design taste into rules agents can follow.

Building an AI agent that designs like me

A field guide for designers, builders, and operators.

AI design has no soul

The role of typography in the AI age.

State of prototyping (Spring 2026)

“The most-used design tool after Figma is now an AI.”

Testing agents on design systems

Can agents effectively use a design system?

The AI mindset shift

“The shift from doer to conductor is coming.”

Cognitive Bias Index

A tool for spotting and reducing thinking errors.

RYBitten

A playground for RYB-inspired digital color.

Analysis of 158 design systems

“Many aren’t ready for a human to use properly, let alone a machine.“

Revive your design superpowers

“You are more powerful than you realize.”

Workroom: Mini Apps

Widgets to refine and polish visuals as you go.

Rethinking design with your hands

The return of human vitality in a synthetic design world.

The Mindful Design Toolkit

Essential tools for responsible product design.

Wonders of Web Weaving

Talks with someone who loves crafting websites.

Refero Styles

Real product design systems in DESIGN.md for AI agents.

Designing mutualistic interfaces

“There is another face on the other side of the interface.”

Reimagining the pointer for the AI era

When the cursor turns into an AI companion.

The old typography is new again

“Optical sizing is once again relevant in digital design.”

Accessibility Tools

A practical toolkit for accessible product design.

User interfaces and “blandification”

Why does 2026 look like 2016, which looks like 2006?

Fontastic Space

Discover optimal font pairings through typography metrics.

The case for design disposables

Good design work isn’t always a deliverable.

You are no longer the user

”The substrate is the new field of design.”

Component examples as data

What’s possible for designers and machines alike.

First look at Figma Agent

Putting the new AI design companion to the test.

AI can replace designers?

“If AI can replace your designers, you never understood design.”

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

Analog Mono, Coral Pixels, and Geist Pixel.

Designing like it’s 1999

“Design for where the puck is going.”

Making information hierarchies work

The role of scent in broad and deep information structures.

Glyph Finder

Find Adobe Fonts that support a given Unicode character.

Error hiding is not error prevention

Why the ’accept’ attribute degrades file upload UX.

A framework for designing AI systems

Turning use cases into AI-powered products.

Does AI find real UI problems?

“False alarms and hallucinations dominate.”

Write-first design

Writing exposes bad design before it gets expensive.

Being an AI-native designer

What 30 design leaders say it really is.

The four design jobs AI created so far

“AI design” has forked into different types of work.

Griddy Icons

An icon family with a distinctive utilitarian style.

Daily Designer

Design insights distilled into daily reflections.

The trouble with font previews

“Fonts are so much more feral than you think.”

What’s new in Penpot release 2.16

WebGL rendering beta, better design token integration, and more.

SVG Dot Grids

Create customizable dot grid patterns in seconds.

SHRTCTS

Learn keyboard shortcuts for apps you use daily.

Did Lovable’s AI build a 100% accessible site?

When AI sites improve with human accessibility expertise.

Designing with uncertainty

How AI supercharges probabilistic thinking.

The UI is still not the point

“We used to hand over screens and now we hand over intent.”

Storied Colors

A catalog of named colors with documented histories.

Product Design Psychology

“I wrote a book. Took me 10 years.”

Consistency, but in excellence

When consistency is judged by appearance.

Going from Figma to code with AI

“I’ve tested every tool. None of them works alone.”

Less is more, more or less

Where knowing what not to build matters most.

Rethinking Figma in an AI world

The company is up against a new way of building products.

Navigating the maze

“The web lost its personality and soul.”

Handwritten blog

A blog where every post and comment is written by hand.

Google’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite

The image model balances cost, speed, and quality.

Everything new in Figma at Config 2026

“It feels like Figma is stepping further onto Adobe’s turf than ever.”

Figma is building accessibility into its canvas

“We created a Mirror DOM structure.”

Designing finger-friendly interactions

“Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you.”

This page left intentionally blank

“In our age of generative AI, a blank page is a deliberate act!”

TOLIS C

A design engineer’s creative web space.

Wait, who made this?

The rise of creative provenance.

Design engineering

What it is, how it’s changed, and where it’s going.

Should we drop “Responsive” for design?

Rethinking “Responsive Design” and “Adaptive Design”.

Type consistency in changing conditions

How grade preserves visual balance across contexts.

I tested 4 top AI design tools

How they solved the same UX design challenge.

Let’s fix the web’s text size

Introducing the HTML ‘text-scale’ meta element.

Penpot 2.17

The design tool brings long-awaited features.

An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop

“So long, Photoshop, you are well past your prime.”

The terminal became my canvas

“It’s great… but horrible at the same time.”