Design dogma you must unlearn, and more...

Thursday | December 4, 2025

Design dogma you must unlearn by Scott Berkun

These false beliefs are holding you back.
Design maturity by Dan Ramsden

Why you need design maturity in a product organisation, and how to get it.
What do Figma’s updates mean for Design Systems? by Allie Paschal

A shift towards token-first and AI-assisted systems.
Using CSS to fix the irradiation illusion by Adam Argyle

How to adjust perceived font weight in dark mode without layout shift.

Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.

Wednesday | December 3, 2025

Articulating design decisions by Arkadiusz Radek

About making thoughtful decisions and defending design rationale.
UX is your moat (and you’re ignoring it) by Christina Wodtke

Your moat isn’t your model. Your moat is whether users feel at home.
Designing design systems by Dominik Dorfmeister

What makes a good design system.
Beyond components by Derek Niedringhaus

Designing for meaning in an agent-assisted era.

Tuesday | December 2, 2025

Why stealing design works by Felix Lee

99% of designers still get this wrong (and blame others for it).
Feedback doesn't scale by Another Rodeo

Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale.
The planning paradox by Mike Watson

How the act of planning drives teams to launch while the plan itself becomes obsolete.
Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open by Geoff Graham

Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior.

Thursday | November 27, 2025

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.

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.