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  • Stack Overflow rebrand: A legacy recoded by Koto

    A conceptual rebrand exploring how Stack Overflow can evolve its identity and digital experience in response to changing developer behaviours, the rise of AI, and the future of online knowledge sharing.

  • On the semantic web by Karl Koch

    Semantic HTML is not an accessibility chore. It is interface infrastructure.

  • Design engineering by Marcelo Chaman Mallqui

    Design engineering is less about sitting between functions and more about combining the parts of those functions that let one person ship beautiful product.

  • Fluid typography with progress() by Matthew Morete

    We need to bring the calculations back into CSS and mix our units, combining the accuracy of pixel-based breakpoints with the accessibility of rem-based font sizes.

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  • Someone designed this by Arun Bakirathan

    The moment a user tries to leave, really tries, with intent, the relationship between good design and good business quietly breaks down.

  • Beautiful mistakes by Tobias van Schneider

    The pattern is always the same. Someone is trying to do one thing. They fail at it or they slip or they forget or they do something out of boredom. And in that gap between intention and what actually happens, something new (sometimes better or new) appears.

  • My figma wish-list by Alice Packard

    Mostly boring, unsexy features and capabilities for Figma Design.

  • Technology and power by Christopher Butler

    The promise of empowerment, far from being incidental to the cycle, is part of its structure — a story the cycle has to tell about itself in order to keep moving.

  • Your design system's newest author is an agent by Murphy Trueman

    The read-only assumption I started from is no longer the operating model. The direction held up, but what I got wrong was the pace. The systems I described as needing to be 'agent-ready' are now being authored alongside agents.

  • Config 2026 recap: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas by Dylan Field

    We're supporting new materials to express anything you can imagine and introducing new tools to shape and push these materials further than ever: code, motion, shaders, generative plugins and Weave tools, all on the Figma canvas.

  • Taste: Design DNA for agents by Sen Lin

    /taste turns any URL into a complete design context for your AI agent. Design Map, Taste DNA, and the reasoning behind every choice.

  • Astro 7.0 by Emanuele Stoppa, Matt Kane, Matthew Phillips

    Together with Vite 8 and its new Rolldown bundler, Astro 7 builds are 15-61% faster in our benchmarks.

  • Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries by Una Kravets

    This technique creates themed components with shadows in light mode that swap out to glowing borders in dark mode, and text that's always readable against its dynamic background color.

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