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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.

  • 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.

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