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  • Agent-native product management by Marcus Moretti

    Now, much of the interdisciplinary work that goes into product management can be done by an LLM in minutes, sometimes seconds.

  • Context-based design systems, revisited by TJ Pitre

    Strong context upstream produces accurate output downstream. Weak context upstream produces drift that scales with whatever tooling you point at it.

  • The brand age by Paul Graham

    Brand is what's left when the substantive differences between products disappear.

  • Media queries range syntax by Ahmad Shadeed

    Media query ranges are clearer, easier to debug, and well-supported. Give them a try in a project, I’m sure you will find it useful.

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  • How Shopify's design director shapes product strategy (video) by Katarina Batina, Michael Riddering

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

  • Design system “adoption” is a red herring by Luis Ouriach

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

  • How I use AI to partner on design problems by Suleiman Shakir

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

  • On rendering the sky, sunsets, and planets by Maxime Heckel

    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.

  • Mockups were never the hard part by Luke Wroblewski

    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 web is fun again by Amit Sheen

    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.

  • Agentic coding is a trap by Lars Faye

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

  • Cognitive Bias Index by Jon Yablonski

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

  • Spec-driven development by Claire Vo, Ryan Nystrom

    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.

  • The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML by Thariq Shihipar

    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.

  • Design was never the comps by Christopher Noessel

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

  • How to operate as a Staff Product Designer by Tom Scott

    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 by Filip Gres, Zuzana Benova

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

  • Your best prompt is a well-defined user story by Jared Surato

    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.

  • Design technologists by Maria Christley

    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.

  • Design from the inside by Matt Ström-Awn

    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.

  • Revive your design superpowers by Scott Berkun

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

  • The boring internet by Terry Godier

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

  • Dos and Don’ts of anchor positioning by James Stuckey Weber, Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo

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

  • Tiny toggle by Donnie D'Amato

    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.

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