Daily Curated Design News and Resources

Opening lecture for the Dyson School of Engineering in October 2026 where I reviewed a variety of thoughts I've had over the years in a 43-minute talk.

In intelligence-driven products, outcomes are probabilistic and vary across people and contexts, which makes static personas less effective for capturing real-world complexity.

The careers that thrive now are the ones willing to become someone new, over and over.

Turning the outlines on is usually a useful place to start. Once I can see which box I'm actually moving, I've got a much better chance of fixing the thing that looked wrong in the first place.

As we head into Interop’s 7th year, it's undeniable that the project has been a smashing success for the web. I’m so glad they keep building on this success.

Apple tried putting icons in all their menus, and even they went back on it.

Ten years of design tokens, several competing formats, and the shared language that never arrived.

USWDS was built to do the things government websites do, like make information easy to access and understand, and it does them really well.

Paper Mono is a free and open source font family with 8 variable weights and coding ligatures.

If your agent can test its own output, it'll write a change, run the check, read the output, and try again over and over until it can pass the check.

Designers should understand code the way an architect understands stone: what it can do, not how to cut it.

We've open-sourced our Accessible Components Library, and, as you might expect, this includes the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code.

Agents make that problem easier to solve, but they also expose how much discipline the underlying information needs.

Titles, company logos, and even specific initiatives don't tell the story of what a designer is great at and how they might fit the needs of a business.

Components, styles and guidelines for building Interfere products.

As agents take on more implementation work, how do we know they considered the states a change might affect?

Toolcraft is an open-source starter kit and UI library for building custom design apps with AI.

I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.

183 design systems, component libraries, and UI toolkits with screenshots, tech stacks, and links. 64 mention AI.

Agentic Brand Systems are how we can turn each touchpoint into a stronger extension of a brand's living source of truth.

What if I told you, you could use CSS to insert and tweak icons without touching any HTML?

We can use calc-size() to get the auto height value, then use it with the round() function to round it to the nearest value we want.