Issue #715: Beyond consistency
Liquid glass, Modal vs dialog, UX research, Context-aware components, The CSS reset, Fluid type scale generator, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Beyond consistency - From design systems to product outcomes. - Brad Frost, Arseni Harkunou
- Designers have to move from the surface to the substrate - We are entering a new frontier. For the first time, the interface itself thinks. And when it thinks, the rules change. - Suff Syed
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Liquid glass is cracked, and usability suffers in iOS 26 - iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. - Raluca Budiu
- How to make your UX research hard to ignore - Research isn’t everything. - Vitaly Friedman
Design engineering
- The CSS reset, again - There is a lot of chatter about CSS resets in the web sphere recently. - Paweł Grzybek
- Making context-aware components - How CSS inherit() could simplify design systems - Stuart Robson
- When to use modal vs dialog components - Discover implementation patterns, accessibility guidelines, and best practices for creating user-friendly interfaces. - Team A11Y Collective
Artificial intelligence
- The art of context engineering - Lessons and insights from building state-of-the-art agents. - Brandon Paddock
- You still need to think - As coding agents become more capable and long-running, they don’t remove the human job of thinking. - Calvin French-Owen
Tools and resources
- Fluid type scale generator - Generate responsive type scales with CSS clamp() values. - Ash Bryant
- components.build - An open-source standard for building modern, composable and accessible UI components. - Hayden Bleasel, shadcn
Last but not least
- Forming habits with Jerry Seinfeld’s method - The goal is to avoid breaking this chain. - Michael Lee