Issue #751: 39 principles for designing human-AI interaction
Stack Overflow rebrand: A legacy recoded, Codex superpowers for designers (video), Halftone in the browser, On the semantic web, and more.
Highlights of the week
- 39 principles for designing human–AI interaction - The central design question is how do we help users rely on AI appropriately. - Taras Bakusevych
- Stack Overflow rebrand: A legacy recoded - 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. - Koto
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Tools and resources
- Astryx Design System - A design system that adapts to your workflow, not the other way around. Built for speed, clarity, and creative freedom. - Meta
- Paper Shaders: Ultra-fast zero-dependency shaders - Shaders for you to use in your projects, as React components or GLSL. - Paper
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Codex superpowers for designers (video) - We do a ton of screen-sharing and go deep into his strategies for prompting, how to get better outputs from the models, and more. - Michael Riddering, Meng To
Design engineering
- Halftone in the browser - Print forced you to separate concerns: the grid, the frequency, the shape at each node. The browser lets you ignore all of that. I didn't. - Carmen Ansio
- On the semantic web - Semantic HTML is not an accessibility chore. It is interface infrastructure. - Karl Koch
- Modern UI patterns (video) - This talk dives into some of the newest updates in the CSS and web UI space while giving you a UX framework of 5 principles to frame digital design decisions through the lens of modern UI patterns. - Una Kravets
Inspiration and creativity
- Beautiful mistakes - 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. - Tobias van Schneider
Artificial intelligence
- 2026 AI and UX predictions: A mid-year reality check - Halfway through the year, so let's look at what I nailed, what I totally missed, and why usability still lags terribly behind. - Jakob Nielsen
- AI interaction atlas: Open source AI UX reference - Comprehensive reference for designing AI experiences. 100+ patterns, visual examples, and reusable components for AI UX designers and product teams. - Brandon Harwood
Last but not least
- The wall: Vibe coding, taste, and the part that doesn’t get easier - The last wall before 'done' is always the same: the it-doesn't-feel-quite-right-yet wall. A wall that gives you no error messages, nothing to copy and paste into the chat. Just you, looking at the thing, knowing it isn't it. - George Kedenburg III