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  • The HTML Brand: The rise of input-based outcomes by Emmett Shine

    How creative work is shifting from traditional outputs to atomic system-led outcomes.

  • How to make your design system AI-ready by Vitaly Friedman

    We shouldn't assume that AI knows how to choose the right component and how to design with accessibility in mind. It needs priorities, a clear path on how we make decisions, design principles, examples, do's and don'ts.

  • The parts of your system you never wrote down by Murphy Trueman

    An agent doesn't stop at that edge. It can't. It runs into something you left open, a prop you never added, a state nobody designed, a spacing value that shows up in three components and never got a name, and it just keeps going.

  • Revealing text with CSS letter-spacing by Preethi

    The CSS letter-spacing property adjusts the space between all characters in a block of text.

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  • Write-first design by Karl Koch

    A mockup is a persuasive object. It looks resolved even when the thinking underneath it is not.

  • Transitions by Jakub Antalik

    Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project.

  • What's missing in CSS layout by Patrick Brosset

    If I had to start with one, it would be overflow and wrapping detection, as it would unlock a lot of responsive design possibilities without needing JS.

  • Building for voice in, visuals out by Allen Pike

    Audio is the human-preferred input to AIs, but vision is the preferred output from them.

  • High-agency strategy by Matt Ström-Awn

    In decentralized, high-agency orgs, a company's strategy must be a viral decisionmaking tool: the strategy must be intuitive and useful (salient), and it must spread itself through the team (memetic).

  • An old, restless wish by Christopher Butler

    The prediction economy has grown because the demand for relief is enormous, and a forecast is a kind of relief, even when nothing it says happens to be true.

  • The art of noticing by mymind

    What we pay attention to opens up. Stare at an ant for an hour and you'll be enthralled. Dive deep into a subject and you'll become obsessed. Really tune into a conversation and it will expand.

  • Animation Vocabulary by Emil Kowalski

    A glossary of common animation patterns taught in the course. Use these names to describe what you want when prompting an AI.

  • Figmalion newsletter by Eugene Fedorenko

    A weekly roundup of hand-picked design resources and publications covering the Figma ecosystem, design tools, AI workflows, and product craft.

  • Overcome imposter syndrome by Scott Berkun

    Meeting someone who does better work than you doesn't make you an imposter: it just means you've met someone you can learn from.

  • Fontastic Space by Dasha Dzisko

    Compare Google Fonts side-by-side with anatomy overlays, OpenType metrics, pairing scores, and ready-to-use CSS.

  • Train your judgement by Emil Kowalski

    Putting into words why something feels right trains your ability to articulate your judgment, a skill that will be incredibly valuable in the AI era.

  • What "done" means when you're shipping AI features by Jeff Gothelf

    Done isn't a checkbox. It's a stance. You are saying, in public, I have decided to accept these variances, I have planned for these failure modes, and I have rehearsed how I'll respond when the variances I didn't anticipate show up anyway.

  • Why the accept attribute degrades file upload UX by Adam Silver

    Error hiding is not error prevention. Which is why the accept attribute is so bad.

  • CSS is filling the gaps with rules by Brecht De Ruyte

    For a long time, if you wanted to style the space between items in a grid or flex layout, you had to fake it.

  • Gradient shader by Brad Woods

    A sine wave is more organic than a straight line — but it's uniform — which isn't organic. We can fix this by combining sine waves with different properties.

  • Why the Ferrari Luce looks like that by Arun Venkatesan

    When your explicit goal is to attract a completely different buyer with an entirely different product that shares almost nothing with your decades of history, you're going to alienate the people who loved what you had before.

  • Build your own AI experimentation stack by Siddhant Khare

    Netflix spent years building their experiment platform. You have the tools and a weekend. The hard part is not spinning things up. It is tearing them down cleanly when the idea fails.

  • Why AI changed design handoff forever by Andy Madrick, Michael Riddering

    While at Notion, he's developed a workflow where he prototypes directly in code, ships frontend PRs, and uses AI tools like Cursor to own the final polish of user interfaces.

  • A designer’s guide to opening Xcode for the first time by Kris Puckett

    What changed is that you no longer have to know how to write code. You have to know how to read it, and that one shift is the whole reason this page exists.

  • The orchestration tax by Addy Osmani

    Spawning agents is not the skill. Anyone can run 20. The real skill is designing the system around the one serial resource that cannot be cloned or paralellized.

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