Good typography is the bedrock of good design. In some cases, it is the design.

The conventions that will eventually feel obvious — the ones the next generation of designers inherit without thinking about them — don't exist yet.

Reframes, evidence, and practical strategies to help designers convince teams to invest in accessibility.

The moment we define our value by how fast we can build something, we have already lost.

Like most LLM-powered tools, though, the technology feels like it swings between amazingly capable and completely clueless.

Deciding what something should feel. Writing the relational stance a product takes toward its users. Defining what it refuses to do, and why. Encoding the emotional logic of a flow so that an agent can render it a thousand times without losing the thread.

Centering is nothing but a special case of alignment in CSS, and alignment is a complex world.

Early testers have found Claude Opus 4.8 to be more reliable and sharper in its judgement when it's performing agentic tasks.

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The trap isn't AI. The trap is that 7 is easier to reach than it's ever been, and 7 feels like enough.

Ready-made examples build upon the configurable component asset that all catalogs start with.

Design disposables are the things you create not to deliver to anyone, but to help yourself think.

Build, customize, and deploy production agents that reason, execute code, and manage files inside secure Linux sandboxes as a single API call.

Ridd is a product designer, educator, podcaster, and founder, best known for his podcast Dive Club.

The enduring value of design lies in judgment, systems thinking, language, research, accountability, and the ability to translate ambiguity into coherent experiences.

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Recently, I've been playing around with different ratio-based grids, including the classic "golden ratio," placing guidelines at 1.6* distances from a central origin point.

Designers are now working in two worlds…one that shapes intuitive experiences for people, while the other defines stringent rules that machines can't misinterpret.

My argument is that in Figma, it is better for icons to be stored as SVG paths, within individual main component frames, rather than rendering icons in text layers using an icon font.

When the styling hook is anchored to semantics, you can't get the visual styles without also getting the parts that make it accessible.

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Agents do not need a mouse. They do not need a menu. They do not need a canvas. They need structured state they can read, reason about, and rewrite.

To understand our customers, we must triangulate across four levels of customer understanding by Hannah Shamji. It's a useful way to think about the underlying reasons for user behavior, hidden motivations, and the complex layers of messy and noisy reality that are often overlooked.

I've illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products that you may have taken for granted.

The LLM is becoming the new experience OS. Not a channel, not a feature, not even a 'frontend layer.' An operating system, in the original sense: the substrate that mediates between intent and action, that decides what gets surfaced, that holds the rules about what is allowed, that brokers between the user and everything else.

A spec like this would solve all sorts of issues design systems teams struggle with.