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  • Storied Colors by Vinu

    Every pigment in this catalogue has a paper trail: where it was first ground, in whose workshop, on whose canvas it dried, when it was banned, what replaced it.

  • Every frame perfect by Nikita Prokopov

    If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, you should be able to explain what I see.

  • Ending responsive images by Jason Grigsby

    In the beginning of our search for a responsive images solution, the challenge seemed simple: the img element only supported one source file, and we needed multiple sources to support responsive designs.

  • The golden rule of Customizable Select by Saron Yitbarek, Tim Nguyen

    Always provide text content or accessible text attributes for your option elements.

  • Introducing the MDN MCP server by The MDN Team

    The MDN MCP gives your coding agent access to accurate, up-to-date web platform information.

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  • Apple reintroduced its design principles by Apple

    Explore fundamental principles that guide design across Apple platforms.

  • How I validated design decisions before writing production code by Luca Masud

    The biggest shift AI has brought to design isn't that designers can now write production code. It's that we can finally generate evidence before committing to anything.

  • Haptics design and implementation by Microsoft Design

    Haptics add a sense of touch to digital interactions, making experiences feel more responsive and intuitive.

  • Agentic code review by Addy Osmani

    An agent will produce a thousand lines of often solid, well-formatted code in less time than it takes me to read this paragraph, while a human's reading speed has not changed since roughly the day we started staring at screens for a living.

  • The UI is still not the point by Marie-Claire Dean

    Everyone is asking whether the machine can build their UI. I think that is the wrong question, and the right one is far more interesting.

  • Design's alive and kicking. It just got some flashy new names by Nicole Alexandra Michaelis

    The premium designers of the next decade won't be valued for how quickly they can draw a beautiful button. They will be valued for their ability to choreograph how humans and intelligent agents collaborate.

  • Say precisely what you mean by Emil Kowalski, Glenn Hitchcock

    The words designers use when they know what they're looking at.

  • Words of Type by Lisa Huang

    Words of Type brings together the terms used in typography, illustrated and explained in multiple languages.

  • Big details by PJ Onori

    Modern software are haystacks. There are more needles than ever, but now they're microscopic.

  • What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27 by Jen Simmons

    We've already shipped a lot of new web technology, including CSS Grid Lanes, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, and many more.

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