Issue #727: User Interface Wiki
The invisible work, State of UX, 18 predictions for 2026, Using AI as a design engineer, Designers as agent orchestrators, Astro 6, and more.
Highlights of the week
- User Interface Wiki - A living manual for better interfaces. - Raphael Salaja
- The invisible work - Projects just drift toward chaos unless a person is actively holding them together. - Hardik Pandya
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- 18 predictions for 2026 - Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and Generative UI, making UX the primary business moat. - Jakob Nielsen
- State of UX 2026 - Design deeper to differentiate. - Kate Moran, Raluca Budiu, Sarah Gibbons
- Growth is now a trust problem - Growth is broken. Trust is the fix. - Elena Verna
Design engineering
- Using AI as a design engineer - I don't use AI to come up with ideas or to replace my own thinking. I use it to accelerate my workflow. - Jakub Krehel
- Using 100vw is now scrollbar-aware - Currently, Chromium-based browsers are the only browser to support this. - Bramus Van Damme
Tools and resources
- Astro 6 (beta) - Redesigned development server, significant rendering performance improvements, and new built-in APIs for working with CSP, fonts, and live content collections. - Matthew Phillips
Inspiration and creativity
- Design details - A collection of small details that make big difference. - Rene Wang
Last but not least
- Designers as agent orchestrators - What I learnt shipping with AI in 2025 - Benhur Senabathi