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  • Apple reintroduced its design principles by Apple

    Explore fundamental principles that guide design across Apple platforms.

  • How I validated design decisions before writing production code by Luca Masud

    The biggest shift AI has brought to design isn't that designers can now write production code. It's that we can finally generate evidence before committing to anything.

  • Haptics design and implementation by Microsoft Design

    Haptics add a sense of touch to digital interactions, making experiences feel more responsive and intuitive.

  • Agentic code review by Addy Osmani

    An agent will produce a thousand lines of often solid, well-formatted code in less time than it takes me to read this paragraph, while a human's reading speed has not changed since roughly the day we started staring at screens for a living.

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  • The UI is still not the point by Marie-Claire Dean

    Everyone is asking whether the machine can build their UI. I think that is the wrong question, and the right one is far more interesting.

  • Design's alive and kicking. It just got some flashy new names by Nicole Alexandra Michaelis

    The premium designers of the next decade won't be valued for how quickly they can draw a beautiful button. They will be valued for their ability to choreograph how humans and intelligent agents collaborate.

  • Say precisely what you mean by Emil Kowalski, Glenn Hitchcock

    The words designers use when they know what they're looking at.

  • Words of Type by Lisa Huang

    Words of Type brings together the terms used in typography, illustrated and explained in multiple languages.

  • Big details by PJ Onori

    Modern software are haystacks. There are more needles than ever, but now they're microscopic.

  • What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27 by Jen Simmons

    We've already shipped a lot of new web technology, including CSS Grid Lanes, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, and many more.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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