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  • UI Skills for design engineers by Interface Office

    Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides with copy-ready install commands.

  • Building glass for the web by Aave Labs

    Our technique runs in every modern browser, on desktop and on mobile, with no flags to turn on and no fallbacks to maintain.

  • Building your ideas as a design leader (video) by Ron Goldin, Michael Riddering

    This week's episode is with Ron Goldin who has led design at Google, Shopify, UberEats, and in my opinion, he's the perfect example of what it looks like to thrive as a design leader in an AI world.

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  • Design systems are over. Product context is the work by Robin Cannon

    AI doesn't effectively recognize and implement components in isolation. What AI consumes - and amplifies - is context.

  • Prototype the path by Ethan Eismann

    A prototype without a question becomes a demo. Demos can inspire, but they don't always teach.

  • The speed of prototyping in the age of AI by Daryl Cecile

    The thing nobody really warned me about is how much AI changes the shape of engineering work, not just the speed of it.

  • heerich.js by David Aerne

    heerich.js is a minimalist JavaScript engine that constructs 3D voxel compositions and distills them into pristine SVG.

  • Daily Designer by Arun Venkatesan

    Every day, I’ll post a thought-provoking quote from a designer I admire.

  • Loop engineering by Addy Osmani

    Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead.

  • Check designs in Figma by Figma

    Check designs compares your designs against your design system, flags what's off, and suggests the correct fix in one click.

  • The old typography is new again by Elliot Jay Stocks

    Good typography rarely announces itself, and optical sizing is a practice where a craft older than the printing press meets the most modern tooling we have.

  • The geometry of luck by Soleio Cuervo

    Soleio reframes luck as a measurable structure with three facets — orientation, surface area, and novel action. The closing talk from Tokyo Design Forum 2026.

  • Coding is designing by Jim Nielsen

    Code isn't just a way to implement a design, it's a way to find one.

  • 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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