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  • Agentic Experience Design Is a new discipline by Marie-Claire Dean

    Agentic Experience Design (AXD) is a discipline now. For some it will still feel like an emerging discipline but I think for many it is shaping up in real-time.

  • Designing stable interfaces for streaming content by Joas Pambou

    More interfaces now render while the response is still being generated. The UI begins in one state, then updates as more data comes in. You see this in chat apps, logs, transcription tools, and other real-time systems.

  • When frequency isn't signal by Murphy Trueman

    The rule design systems use to promote patterns stops working the moment AI is generating the instances.

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  • Component(.)md by Ian Guisard

    Anyone leading a design system has the same question to answer: are your components still readable only by humans a year from now?

  • On the right tool for the job by Karl Koch

    Not every job wants the same process. Reach for the tool that fits the problem in front of you right now, not the tool you used last time. That is the whole thing.

  • Agentic design systems codebase navigation by Robin Di Capua

    Unpacking the deliberate steps, logic, and reasoning pipelines used by agents to work with your design system.

  • Agents with taste by Emil Kowalski

    An engineer has never been more leveraged than today thanks to a fleet of agents. But when it comes to more visual work, like animations, coding agents don’t quite know what great feels like.

  • 10 UI patterns that won't survive the AI shift by Taras Bakusevych

    A practical guide with real product examples of what's replacing them.

  • Scroll-driven animations by Joshua Comeau

    One of the best ways to add a bit of personality to our websites is to animate things on scroll.

  • The five dimensions of craft by Ethan Eismann

    Timeless principles that separate products people use from products people love.

  • Design Systems are now Inference Systems by David Hoang

    The Inference System doesn’t care what the modal looks like but the insights to know when to invent something the library doesn’t contain at all.

  • The end of responsive images by Mat Marquis

    The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on the web.

  • An interactive cover component by Kitty Giraudel

    A technical walkthrough on how to build a small interactive cover component, with some nifty CSS tricks.

  • Building a UI without breakpoints by Amit Sheen

    While breakpoints were an excellent answer to a real problem when multiple screen sizes emerged, modern interfaces are no longer page-first. They are component-first, nested, and reused across wildly different contexts.

  • You're not behind by Joey Banks

    You’re not falling behind. You’re in the middle of learning something new, along with everyone else. Me included. The reminder I keep coming back to is this: we're designers, not our tools.

  • Every feature should earn its place by Karri Saarinen

    A common story in product development goes like this: execution is cheap now, so why not build more things and see what sticks?

  • Do researchers still need to take notes in interviews? by Phil Morton

    Don’t just default to your usual way of taking notes. Think about what data you’ll need at the other end, and design your notes around it. The analysis (human or AI) will be much better for it.

  • Design token naming conventions by Stuart Robson

    Naming design tokens can look and feel simple right up until you have to do it for real. Choose a weak pattern and things get inconsistent fast. Choose a clear pattern and you get a shared language that helps both design and engineering move quicker.

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