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100 top UXD methods ranked by breadth, altitude, persuasion, and cost. AI prototyping wins as the highest-value method.

A rubric I wrote years ago has five sections, and I only ever filled in four. Here is what belongs in the fifth, and why it took me this long to write it down.

The only thing between most dashboards and numbers that read right is a font that kept its figures and four lines asking for them.

Occasionally a designer is faced with an important question that awaits an honest answer: are you doing something to make your user's life simpler, or yours?

Most token systems were built for people. Agents expose where their naming, structure, and documentation break down.

Prompt-to-code interfaces don't create better ideas by themselves. But what they do is reduce the cost of execution to almost nothing — giving us more time to remain in the unknown, play with the problem and discover which ideas are actually worth pursuing.

Be extremely choosy about what you let be added to your system. And be militant about taking things out.

When the text is one line, the icon is centered, but when the text has multiple lines, the icon is still centered but looks odd.

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Read the token file and you can follow some of the decisions your team has made; read an API response and you can design for the data your interface will receive; read a diff and you can tell what a change is likely to touch.

Designers now turn ideas into working products. Explore a curated collection of apps, tools, websites, and experiments designed, built, and shipped by designers.

It sits at the intersection of design and engineering, but if you ask ten different people exactly what it means to be a design engineer, you might get ten different answers.

Today I'm re-launching DESK as a personal archive of these essays, with the goal to keep writing till the very last day.

The current planning medium is a poorly designed environment for humans to do high-quality thinking in.

Words alone will rarely sink the ship. But they absolutely can contribute to headaches, misalignment, wasted motion, false confidence, and harmful flattening.

When a prompt outperforms the tool, that isn't the machine's triumph; it's the instrument's failure.

Our dashboard at Vercel has a sidebar. All kinds of important notices or promotions live on the sidebar surface. There can often be many of them, so there needs to be a way to navigate through several cards.

A Design OS brings the systems and processes of design together in software so they can be used by both people and agents.

I’ve released Humane functionalism, a skill for AI coding agents that applies ideas from Danish functionalism to UI and UX.

Much like I maintain my own CSS reset, which provides me a clean slate for my styles, I maintain my own boilerplate, which I use as a base structure and reference when creating HTML documents.

The foundational language of the web is getting plenty of love lately. While HTML moves a bit more slowly than its buddies, CSS and JavaScript, that tends to be a good thing.

In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make.

Perhaps one of the most important design skills in the world of AI will be a very simple one: not to rush into agreeing with the first reasonable answer.

The prompt is the front door, and context engineering is the architecture of the whole entire house.

My post on two-state dark mode toggles sparked a lot of discussion about the optimal dark mode toggle design. But should you have a (persistent) dark mode toggle at all?

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.