Before AI, writing code was expensive, so the cost of building imposed a higher threshold on which ideas survived long enough to be built.

What I learned building an 8-agent pipeline that produces production design system components from Figma.

How our design team stopped mocking things up and started building them — inside the real repo, with a git branch and zero prior GitHub experience.

The value is hard to pin down because the measurement system was never built to see it.

This is the exact method how to get web design clients (or any dream client) without cold calls, ads, or an audience: a love letter.

Composability creates room to shape. A design language teaches teams what to shape toward.

Nine stages, in order, and the order isn't decorative. Each stage is only reachable from the one below it, and skipping a rung doesn't produce a shortcut, it produces a specific and recognizable failure.

The most valuable thing you own has been trapped in one skull your whole career, and AI is the first tool that ever made getting it out worth the effort.

A PRD assumes you already know the hill you're planning to climb — exploration is the exact opposite.

Using attributes instead of classes isn't just cleaner, it's more semantic, more accessible, and more future-proof.

When making something is no longer evidence you meant it, there's nowhere left to hide.

Watch 10 users, code what happens, report honestly, and you'll know something nobody else knows.

Novelty is the equivalent of an exclamation mark. Akin to seasoning, you don't want too much of it.

If AI is going to become a genuine design partner, I believe the next step isn't simply making it better at generating interfaces. It's giving it better ethical instructions to work from.

The CSS Route and Navigation Matching Specification (css-navigation-1) introduces a few new key components to CSS that allow you to style the navigation and links declaratively.

The CSS of 2026 would be unrecognizable to our distant ancestors from the early 2000s.

AI has made it much easier for designers to become builders. It has not made it equally easy for builders to become designers.

A snapshot, a contract per component, and a check that catches drift, unbound tokens, and broken variants — no MCP server needed.

ANE systems emphasize environmental determinism, structural consistency, and rapid validation to allow agents to produce production-grade changes with minimal human oversight.

Claude Cowork is the first tool from Anthropic that treats knowledge work the way we designers actually experience it: as multi-step tasks with real files, real deliverables, and a chain of judgment calls in the middle.

Despite the genuine loss associated with the squircle restriction, there's more than one way to design with it.

The final interface lives in code, which is where it should live – we are software designers, after all.

A survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.

Relying on the same combination of product quality, SEO, launch platforms, and occasional social posts feels increasingly naive.

The leap from that painted stage to a world you move a camera through is the same leap CSS lets you make, and it's smaller than it looks.

The line height unit (lh) has been around for a while and I rarely see people sharing how they use it.