The best interfaces we never built

Highlights of the week ↘

Free prototyping for UI/UX designers - Effortlessly transform Figma designs into dynamic prototypes - run multiple interactions, refine animations, and export React code. - Phase sponsored

The best interfaces we never built - Five fictional interface concepts that could reshape how humans and machines interact. - Christopher Butler

The hamburger-menu icon today - Hamburger menus are a more familiar pattern today than 10 years ago, but the same old best practices for hidden navigation still apply. - Kate Kaplan

Product design, UX/UI and PM ↘

Think like a designer - I believe more designers need to stop waiting for permission - and start shaping the companies they wish existed - Andy Budd

Liquid Glass - With the launch of Liquid Glass in iOS 26, we are witnessing what appears to be the next evolution of Apple’s interface system. - Hardik Pandya

Design engineering ↘

On shaping light - Using post-processing as a gateway to more physically accurate 3D work on top of stylization in future work will be an interesting undertaking. - Maxime Heckel

Partial keyframes - Creating dynamic, composable CSS keyframe animations. - Joshua Comeau

Artificial intelligence ↘

Writing and walking - Walking is already a choice. Writing will become a choice. - Boris Müller

A new MVC is emerging - AI is breaking the way we build (and it’s exciting). - David Hoang

State-of-the-art prompting for AI agents - At first, prompting seemed to be a temporary workaround for getting the most out of large language models. But over time, it’s become critical to the way we interact with AI. - Y Combinator

Tools and resources ↘

Harker: Type faster with your voice. Secure, offline, and always ready - A minimal, stylish and privacy-focused speech-to-text widget for your Mac. Built for fast thinkers lets you speak anywhere you’d normally type. - Harker promoted

Exploring Figma’s Dev Mode MCP server (Video) - A quick demo of using Figma’s new Dev Mode MCP server. - Joey Banks

Introducing our Dev Mode MCP server - Design context is critical for going from design to code. - Jake Albaugh

Inspiration and creativity ↘

Stay hungry, stay foolish - Marking the 20th anniversary of Steve’s Stanford address. - Steve Jobs Archive

Last but not least ↘

Boundaries for designers - Freedom, not restriction. - Dan Mall