The new era of design at Stripe (video), and more...

Wednesday | February 25, 2026

The new era of design at Stripe (video) by Katie Dill, Michael Riddering

A deep dive into how the practice of design is evolving at Stripe and everything they’re doing to push past the status quo.
What I’m seeing in UX leadership right now by Marina Krutchinsky

The shift is quiet but it’s real.
On adding homepage delight by Karl Koch

Built a vinyl-style music shelf with spring physics, deflection, hover layers and velocity gating; reduces motion to grid/mobile.
Designing for clarity by Pranava Tandra

How we restructured Intercom’s information architecture.

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

Tuesday | February 24, 2026

Sketching with code by David Hoang

Treating code like a pencil, not a blueprint.
Gemini 3.1 Pro for designers: A practical guide by Tommaso Nervegna

Learn how Google's latest model changes the way designers prototype, build, and ship.
Do what's hard to do in Figma by Erik D. Kennedy

A design manifesto.
The ultimate guide for PMs by Paweł Grzybek

Cowork just dropped for Windows and Intel-based macOS with full feature parity. Here's everything you need.
Design for the gap by Chad Johnson

Why the best designers are focused on what AI can’t do.
There is no product by Sidu Ponnappa

Below the line, there is no product.

Monday | February 23, 2026

My favorite type of designers by Tobias van Schneider

There are many types of GREAT designers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past two decades and what I learned is that they are all not measured equally.
The MCP tool that's changing how I use Figma by Joey Banks

Creating 200+ variables took seconds, and mapping them to color swatch instances so the team could preview values was way easier than I expected.
A private conversation every designer needs to hear by Tommy Geoco

I just spent two hours getting my ass handed to me by someone who's technically unemployed.
The interface is content by Boris Müller

User interfaces need to be improved, not removed.
Claude Code is re-shaping my design process by Jeff Zych

My process has changed significantly over the past few months.
Native HTML components don’t guarantee good UX by Adam Silver

Just because it’s native doesn’t mean it guarantees good UX.

Friday | February 20, 2026

Designing in English by Mark Anthony Cianfrani

Components are dead. Use your words.
Consistency is primitive by Christopher Butler

When AI becomes infrastructure and software becomes bespoke, the economic imperative for standardization disappears.
Making the design team visible by Arkadiusz Radek

Stakeholder alliances, lighthouse projects, and the design process for non-designers.
An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS by Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter helps you to make sense of list-style, list-item, ::marker, counters(), counter(), @counter-style, symbolic, symbols(), symbols and more to push your HTML and CSS lists to the next level.
CSS Scope & Mixins by Chris Coyier, Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo

A chat with Chris Coyier.

Thursday | February 19, 2026

Designing for transparent screens by David Allin Reese

Behind the scenes of Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design system for display AI glasses.
The latest design problem? Getting a job by Carly Ayres

On design hiring and getting a job in 2026.
Designers who ship by Micka Touillaud

The 5 trust levels of AI-native design teams.
We're getting better at the workaround by Murphy Trueman

On Figma's code-to-canvas announcement, and why smoother translation might be making the structural problem harder to fix.