Ditch those words

“It’s the fastest way to make a design more easily understood.”

Design System Awards 2025

The finalists of this year’s submissions.

Designing confirmation dialogs

How to craft dialogs that enhance user trust.

I’m not a robot

Take your CAPTCHA experience to the next level.

Innovation by Design 2025

The winners of Fast Company’s annual design awards.

World Illustration Awards 2025

The winners of the renowned illustration awards.

Prompting Google Nano Banana

Useful prompts for routine design tasks.

Figma Make gallery

AI-generated projects from the Figma community.

“The tools got easier. The job got harder. But for people willing to focus on what actually matters—understanding humans and building things they genuinely want—this is the best time ever to build something meaningful.”

Functional personas with AI

How to breathe new life into a stale UX asset.

From a blog post to a magazine

Say hello to the Niche Design magazine.

Unstructured input in AI apps

“No form is the best kind of web form design.”

Offering clients more than a Figma file

A documentation that bridges design and code.

Designing for problem-unaware users

Why it matters and how to approach it.

Vibe code straight from your website

Prototype where your product already lives.

Design dialects

“Design systems must learn to speak dialects.”

The art of prototyping

Lessons, not the artifact, are their real value.

Accessibility-specific design annotations

What to annotate and how to do it clearly for all.

A new-ish approach to web typography

“Typography’s role is to serve meaning, not convenience.”

Anyone can build anything?

“AI will happily design the wrong thing for you.”

Practical animation tips

Ways to make your animations feel more delightful.

Why I hate the MVP car

“A petty tirade, years in the making.”

Photoshop/Premiere Elements 2026

What’s new in Adobe’s image and video editor.

Creating a typographic hierarchy

A guide for making your type do the talking.

Design Sketchplanations

Delightful visual explanations for designers.

When interfaces design themselves

”It’s not only possible; it’s already happening.”

Using AI agents in product design

A tutorial to create an AI agent in ChatGPT.

A synthesizer for color

”My color palette generator just sucks less.”

Guide to the Inclusive Design Principles

How to apply the renowned principles in practice.

“Designers no longer control the experience, they guide it. Today, design means shaping the behavior of intelligent systems. It means making that behavior legible, trustworthy, and valuable.”

Accessibility testing comparison

Automated testing vs. human auditing vs. usability testing.

Case studies are the real product

Why case studies outlast shiny design artifacts.

Stop neglecting it

Your design portfolio is your calling card.

When your website makes you smile

The tiny things can make a huge difference.

The Creative Cheat Sheet

Resources and tools for creative minds.

Prompting isn’t the future

“The breakthrough will come when prompting feels like play.”

Guardrails for AI agents

Preventing AI agents from behaving in undesirable ways.

Where’s the AI design renaissance?

“Good design comes from a broader process.”

Designing for distress

Accessibility shows its value when people need it most.

Screen reader misconceptions

How screen readers work in practice.

Improving accessibility in Figma

Figma enhances screen reader and keyboard navigation.

Designing amiable web spaces

Lessons from Vienna’s café culture.

UI design with ChatGPT 5

AI-driven UI design as an alternative to Figma.

The 12 emotional color journeys

A fresh perspective on color psychology in design.

Designing for intention instead of navigation

What Perplexity’s AI browser reveals about UX’s future.

Design audit using ChatGPT 5

A structured approach to an AI design audit.

Tackling common UX hurdles with AI

How AI lets us rethink established design patterns.

Call to actions that gets clicked

How to design CTAs that drive measurable results.

The web has gone grey

Let’s make the web a more colorful space!

Purple

“Stop making the buttons purple!”

Why do we need dithering?

When noise in digital images became beauty.

Design systems for a new era

Figma helps teams scale design systems with AI.

AI image editing showdown

State-of-the-art image editing models compared.

Bad UX World Cup 2025

Who has crafted the most terrifying date picker?

Canva introduces all-in-one Affinity

It unites photo, vector, and layout tools for free.

Design systems don’t kill creativity

“Innovation is stifled when conformity becomes the default.”

To grow, we must forget…

But now AI remembers everything.

The premortem

Your product’s autopsy before launch.

Can a website make you feel safe?

Good design not only works but also feels right.

Good fonts make good UX

“A font is a great tool for a great user experience.”

Figma’s accessibility era?

What to expect from Figma’s accessibility retrofitting.

“Designing for edge cases isn’t a chore; it’s an investment in the integrity of your work. For those of us who care about craft, that’s where the real mastery shows.”

Grayscale testing

The missing step in color accessibility.

Slots in design systems

More flexible components through custom composition.

Synthetic developer

The solo designer’s best friend?

Why you’re addicted to Lovable

The AI site builder’s path to success.

Guiding the future of ethical design

From moral principles to practical design guidance.

UI design with Midjourney

Prompting, techniques, and example outputs.

Animation that fails safely

Principles for inclusive and resilient motion design.

Pricing Pages

Curated pricing page designs to spark your creativity.

The curse of the custom cursor

A look at some of the worst offenders.

In the sea of sameness

Let’s find ways to make designs more authentic!

A guided tour of Copenhagen

Sketch’s latest update features a major redesign.

Generative UI

Google’s AI-driven UIs for each user come to life.

Creativity meets precision

Figma rolls out Google’s cutting-edge AI image generator.

Can AI write accessibility specs?

A journey through hallucinations and reflections.

SVG Converter

Turn your images into vector graphics with color control.

Freesound

A huge library of community-contributed audio clips.

Creating UI assets with ChatGPT

Icons, illustrations, and background patterns.

Introducing the design stroll

An actionable way to capture great ideas.

A new navigation paradigm

How will AI reshape navigation in digital products?

Exposure as a designer

“Designers spend too much time with other designers.”

Designing effective contextual menus

Do’s and don’ts for secondary menu actions.

Disruption, or theft?

”AI might be the grandest heist of them all.”

Serifs are back in fashion

Why is this font suddenly everywhere?

The Rosetta Stone of design engineering

Why design and engineering need a shared language.

Accessibility is about people

“You can’t make something accessible to everyone.”

The only winning move is not to play

“Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers.”

What Figma’s updates mean for design systems

A shift towards token-first and AI-assisted systems.

The barcode as a design object

The visual language of barcodes and QR codes.

Silicon clay

How AI is reshaping UX design.

Your perfectionism is lying to you

”Chasing perfectionism leads to imperfection.”

Contrast Plus

A practical APCA and WCAG contrast checker.

The f*** off contact page

When they say contact us but really mean don’t.

Common misconceptions about disability

Understanding disability means understanding real people.

The myth of “no design process”

Why meaningful design starts where ease ends.

Designing decisions

How behavioral psychology moves users.

Design Systems Awards 2025

Zeroheight celebrates this year’s winners.

Measuring the impact of features

Meet a simple, repeatable, meaningful UX metric.

Make it ugly, for clients

“So they know what they’re looking at.”