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  • The Figma design agent is here by Tammy Taabassum, Rodrigo Davies

    It's fine-tuned for editing Figma files, so outputs are tailored to your design context and built for direct manipulation so you can stay in control.

  • The second brain for product managers by Paweł Huryn

    A folder of files on your laptop. Claude reads them before answering, writes to them after, sweeps them every Friday.

  • What the system is trying to tell you by Murphy Trueman

    What you find in an audit is a record of constraints, not a catalog of failures.

  • Links to CSS color palettes by Julia Evans

    I'm not very good with colours so it makes a big difference to me to have a reasonable colour palette that somebody who is better at colour than me has thought about.

  • Better fluid sizing with round() by Ahmad Shadeed

    round() is a small addition to your fluid-sizing toolkit, but it pays off when you want predictable steps like typography scales, spacing tokens, or snapping components to a layout grid.

  • The anatomy of an AI agent by Phil Morton

    Products will keep coming and going, but these core ‘body’ parts won’t. Hopefully this gives you an easier way to understand them.

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  • The state of the design industry right now (video) by Tommy Geoco, Michael Riddering

    Over the last few months, Tommy Geoco has went on site to study today's top design teams (Vercel, Perplexity, Metalab, Ramp, etc.).

  • From faster pencil to AI experience architect by Patrick Neeman

    The shift from AI Designer to AI Experience Architect is not about working faster, it is a change in how you do your work and what you are accountable for.

  • AI made everyone a creator, not a designer by Aurélie Radom

    As artifact creation becomes effortless, value shifts upward. The strategic layer above generation becomes more important than ever.

  • HTML is the new Markdown (video) by Thariq Shihipar, Claire Vo

    Anthropic’s Claude Code engineer on why HTML replaces Markdown, building micro-apps for spec editing, living design systems, and becoming a “compute allocator”.

  • How context cascades by TJ Pitre

    A clean design system behaves like well-structured CSS. Inheritance flows, overrides are rare, and each layer respects the next. Here's how that mindset holds up in an agentic AI world.

  • Nudges, biases & heuristics for the age of AI by Sudha Broslawsky

    43 interactive field cards covering nudges, biases, heuristics, and AI phenomena. A practical reference for designers, researchers, and product teams building with AI.

  • Something’s rotten in the state of macOS icon design by Jim Nielsen

    It's fast becoming the case that if you put any Mac app's icons in reverse, it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really, really good at icon design.

  • Five different portfolios, five similar opportunities by Ron Goldin

    If you are sitting on a portfolio right now and not getting the calls you think you should be getting, there is a chance at least one of these is the reason.

  • Ten data-backed truths of UX ROI by Carrie Webster

    Facts don't just advocate for the user; they prove that UX is a non-negotiable requirement for a healthy bottom line.

  • Grief in the AI age by Brad Frost

    Acceptance and commitment therapy is a whole thing worth exploring. With acceptance, with the acknowledgment that AI is here, it's likely not going away, despite my feelings and my grief around it.

  • Using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts by Polypane

    If you don't want your floating chat button to end up sitting behind the home indicator, where it's unreachable, you need to account for the safe area inset.

  • The problem with HTML reset buttons by Adam Silver

    Most users never need to reset a form. If they make mistakes, they fix them and move on.

  • Impeccable: Design skills for AI harnesses by Paul Bakaus

    Most AI tools one-shot a plausible-looking mock. Impeccable starts with a conversation: audience, brand personality, anti-references, aesthetic direction.

  • Software gets personal: An introduction by Fabien Girardin

    Personal software is a solution that is good enough for a niche audience. It's software made by "anyone," for themselves and the people around them.

  • Don't outsource the learning by Addy Osmani

    Using AI without an active intent to learn quietly degrades the skill you're being paid for.

  • Strategic design requires advocates and beacons by Hannah Hearth

    Advocates are tenured or high level people in other functions (engineering, product management) who want to see a change from design and help you make it happen.

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