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Tokens are the layer we can still control. And if we let go of the instinct to componentise every single surface of the product, we might actually be able to build faster, at greater scale, and stay just as consistent, maybe more.

Dropdown lists are one of the most familiar controls in forms, but that convenience comes at a cost: dropdowns hide available options behind a click, adding friction to every selection and slowing decision making.

Structure is everything, and it all starts with small units. The whole stack is really three concepts layered on top of each other: the loop, the harness, and the factory.

The durable AI habits will belong to the teams that keep the low effort and quietly repair the friction that moved.

The question to ask before creating any token is simple: will this value ever need to change independently of the property it's applied to?

Rather than thinking of a skill as a saved prompt the user or agent can retrieve as needed, think of a skill as a plugin: an extension of the harness.

Designers already have the mental model for all of this, in fact we've had it for decades.

We've reached a point where an idea becomes a prompt and a prompt becomes an app in the store in days. The finished result appears almost instantly, and nobody steps backwards through anything.

The one piece of career advice I'm giving everyone right now is to get a side project.

Screens should always be designed to pause the user so that they make a clear, conscious decision.

I think about it like — if you had to understand what a codebase is from the commit logs, that's kind of what we're doing with agent chats.

Craft isn’t perfectionism. Perfectionism is self-indulgent: it optimizes for the maker’s satisfaction. Craft is empathetic: it optimizes for the person on the other side. We’re not doing art. We’re designing for others.

Some see it as an invigorating return to what brought them to the discipline in the first place, from the joy of creating to finally being able to sweat the details that separate a mediocre product from a great one.

AI leverage becomes workplace pressure when every saved hour simply raises the output expected next time.

Shared-element transitions are useful because they preserve object identity across that break.

Training your design senses is rigorous work, no different from training as a boxer or musician.

"Make it work" is the first 90% of the work. "Make it good" is the other 90%.

What's important to understand about this model is that either of these in isolation would objectively be a small mistake, and caught by the other slices.

Thanks to subgrid, we can nest a grid on the inner items. That means we can have two children positioned at the start and end of the shared grid.

Under partial failure, retry loops can rearrange history. If order, duplication, or staleness matters, retry needs state.

He screenshares dozens of unused concepts, novel art directions, brand identities, and everything in between.

You can write the cleanest AGENTS.md on the internet and still have no idea whether the component that shipped this morning came from your library, or got hand-rolled as a div with a hardcoded blue.

Every AI conference this year was about loops. Here's what that means for design, and a loop you can run in the next ten minutes.

While the performance benefits of bundling absolutely outweigh any negatives, if you have a small amount of JavaScript files, not bundling is perfectly viable.

CSS properties come in two excellent flavors – longhand properties have a direct impact on the element, while shorthand properties take a much more convoluted path.