Notes From an Interview With Jony Ive, and more...

Thursday | November 27, 2025

The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings by Granola promoted
Granola captures every meeting and turns them into PRDs, tickets, and decisions.
Notes From an Interview With Jony Ive by Jim Nielsen

Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, interviewed Jony Ive at Stripe Sessions.
How we built the v0 iOS app by Fernando Rojo

As a company focused on the web, building a native app was new territory for us.
CSS if statements and conditional logic by Marko Denic

The new if() function is an exciting addition to the CSS toolbox.

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Tuesday | November 25, 2025

Agentic AI interface improvements by Luke Wroblewski

Today's AI chat interfaces hit usability issues when models engage in extended reasoning and tool use.
Brand new layouts with CSS Subgrid by Joshua Comeau

Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree.
Drawing triangles with CSS using borders by Alvaro Montoro

I revisit a scenario where using borders might actually be convenient.

Monday | November 24, 2025

Grid Paper by Dave Rupert

A home-cooked app for drawing straight lines.
The Rosetta Stone of design engineering by Yann-Edern Gillet

A deeper look at how design and engineering meet, overlap, and translate meaning.
Good enough is a strategy by Trevor I. Lasn

Perfect is the enemy of done. And done is the only way to learn what perfect actually means.
Creativity meets precision with Gemini 3 Pro by Noah Levin

From quick style variations to precise edits, Nano Banana Pro helps teams stay creative without losing context or brand integrity.

Friday | November 21, 2025

The hidden cost of shipping too fast by Anton Sten

Speed often gets treated as progress even when no one has agreed on what progress actually means.
Exposure by Hardik Pandya

Designers spend too much time with other designers.
What AI is really for by Christopher Butler

Best case: we’re in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they’re doing.
Responsive letter spacing by Tyler Sticka

Earlier this year, a longtime customer shared a new iteration of their brand guidelines.
Keyframes tokens by Amit Sheen

Standardizing animation across projects.

Thursday | November 20, 2025

The tools I rely on as a UI designer by Max Rudberg

It’s important to stay current with the AI tools available today.
Vibe coding as a designer by Sil Bormüller

I’m deep in vibe coding mode this week.
How done is done? by Elliot Jay Stocks

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to call a project ‘complete’.

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