A 2026 UX portfolio isn’t about polished case studies; it’s proof of how you tackle ambiguity, use AI as a true creative partner, and move quickly from insight to execution to deliver results that matter to the business.

It’s really easy to say agents are able to use a design system. See, I just said it–that’s how easy it is. It’s another thing to show that agents are able it use it well–with receipts to prove it.

Every pixel you see on this page is the result of stacking hundreds of elements on top of each other and deciding, millions of times, pixel by pixel, what the result should look like.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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