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  • Articulation is design craft by Cristian Morales Achiardi

    When a designer can't articulate why a decision was made beyond surface-level descriptions of what the decision is, they're not failing to translate internal knowledge into external language.

  • The terminal belongs to designers too by Marie-Claire Dean

    In a moment when AI is changing what it means to design, when the agents you'll be working with and designing for live and breathe in this environment, the fear of the black window is a wall between you and the work that matters most.

  • A simplified system by Jon Friedman

    From orchestration patterns to iconography, the experience we're building will ultimately have components that work together to amplify thinking, guide decisions, and unlock creativity—seamlessly, wherever you work.

  • Install web apps with the new HTML install element by Patrick Brosset

    The new install HTML element changes that: drop a single HTML element into your page and the browser renders a trusted install button for you, with no JavaScript required.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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