Balancing metrics and vision, Redesigning the shopping cart UX, Taking a big bet on the shopping feed, and more

The implicit belief behind adoption metrics is that a design system succeeds when it is used everywhere, by everyone, as often as possible.

I always thought design was about solving problems. So what if AI could help me think through the problem instead?

This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.

The difficult work is, and always has been, maintaining coherency and intention across a product so it works for people, not the other way around.

The promise is simple and exciting: take native HTML, render it into canvas workflows, and then apply visual effects with 2D Canvas, WebGL, or WebGPU.

The use of coding agents is actively diminishing the very skills needed to effectively manage the coding agents.

A tool for identifying and mitigating the systematic errors in thinking that affect the decisions and judgments that humans make.

Ryan Nystrom (Notion) shows how to automate standups, ship PRs from a single comment, and use spec-first development so agents do the coding while you do the thinking.

Twenty self-contained .html files an agent produced instead of a wall of markdown. Each one trades a document you'd skim for one you'd actually read — open any of them directly in a browser. Grouped by the kind of work they replace.

What I learned when Claude Design dumped a dozen screens on me.

Senior designers ship great features. Staff designers help the product make sense as a whole. The real difference isn't seniority — it's the scope and type of impact.

Griddy Icons is free open-source icon family with unique utilitarian vibe.

A well-defined story with clear context, specific acceptance criteria, and a technical hypothesis isn't just good practice anymore. It's a strong starting point for a prompt.

By quickly creating high-quality prototypes, they enable teams to make decisions based on something they can actually interact with, not something they're imagining from a mockup.

In the new world, the building needs to be designed from the inside. There is no 'source of truth' when everything changes at every moment.

We have the rare capacity to discover and digest layers of complex information for practical use in solving problems.

The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

CSS anchor positioning isn't baseline yet, and there's good reason for that. You can use it, but it comes with some caveats.

Over at the Design Systems House website, I made a small toggle for light and dark mode. Here’s how I did it, and some additional considerations to keep in mind.

If you call yourself a designer and—be honest with yourself—the bulk of your role has been the production of flat pictures of user interfaces, then I’m sorry to break it to you, but you are not designing. You are styling.

Rafa Conde is a design engineer at Retro and one of the most creative designers I know. I still remember where I was when I first saw the video on his personal site. In this episode we unpack what it means to design experiences that bring delight.

Design knows how to make things that do not yet exist. The work ahead may be to apply that capacity to the profession's own institutional life

Design gets talked about like it's a deliverable. Screens, mocks, prototypes, guidelines — those are artifacts of design, but they aren't design. Design is the act of deciding what should exist, why it should exist, and what "right" looks like before you've committed to building it.

The truth is: Form design isn’t easy, not when you actually do it properly.