Daily Curated Design News and Resources

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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