Daily Curated Design News and Resources

The read-only assumption I started from is no longer the operating model. The direction held up, but what I got wrong was the pace. The systems I described as needing to be 'agent-ready' are now being authored alongside agents.

We're supporting new materials to express anything you can imagine and introducing new tools to shape and push these materials further than ever: code, motion, shaders, generative plugins and Weave tools, all on the Figma canvas.

/taste turns any URL into a complete design context for your AI agent. Design Map, Taste DNA, and the reasoning behind every choice.

Together with Vite 8 and its new Rolldown bundler, Astro 7 builds are 15-61% faster in our benchmarks.

This technique creates themed components with shadows in light mode that swap out to glowing borders in dark mode, and text that's always readable against its dynamic background color.

We cannot control for every outcome directly through the interface, but we can design the conditions that shape a model's generation.

In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.

Figma won against Sketch because it realized the center of gravity could change. Now that center of gravity is changing again. And Figma is on the other side of the innovator's dilemma.

This is a collection of non-work projects I've done over the past couple of years. Things done on the side for fun.

What is the right way to get from a throwaway prototype to something engineering can actually ship, without it eating another three months?

Designing for the new era of radically adaptive UI. An introduction for designers.

A step by step case study to quickly fix an example user interface using logic-driven UI design tips.

When you strive for consistency across a suite, individual elements lose their ability to be exceptional and iconic on their own terms.

An interactive 3D keyboard for learning the keyboard shortcuts of the apps you use every day.

I’ve noticed that Japan has many examples of symbols that convey meaning entirely on their own.

Scroll-triggered animations play for a fixed duration once a certain scroll threshold has been surpassed.

Understand the minds you're designing for and the mind you're designing with.

Principles for design engineers at Vercel. Obsess over usefulness, own the whole experience, and make the team better.

7 lessons from designer, inventor and angel investor Soleio on what separate excellent from mediocre.

Agents do the work between the gates. Humans own the gates and the judgment calls.

We offer these principles not as a fixed doctrine but as a working position — one we hope will drive better decision making and optimisation at every level: organisation, team and individual, for both humans and agents.

AI doesn't mean you should go be everyone. It means you can scale the thing you're uniquely wired for.

You write it down before anyone starts building. The quality bar has to exist in a format that can be applied, not just understood in the head of the most experienced person on the team.

The semantic intent is declared, not inferred. That's an API response. You asked the system a question and it gave you structured data back.

AI amplifies whatever engineering culture it lands in, the good parts and the bad parts both.