May 4, 2026

Issue #742: UX design portfolio in 2026

10 UI patterns, The five dimensions of craft, The end of responsive images, Agents with taste, Scroll-driven animations, and more.

UX design portfolio in 2026 - A 2026 UX portfolio isn’t about polished case studies; it’s proof of how you tackle ambiguity, use AI as a true creative partner, and move quickly from insight to execution to deliver results that matter to the business. - Jess Eddy
10 UI patterns that won't survive the AI shift - A practical guide with real product examples of what's replacing them. - Taras Bakusevych
Component(.)md - Anyone leading a design system has the same question to answer: are your components still readable only by humans a year from now? - Ian Guisard

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The five dimensions of craft - Timeless principles that separate products people use from products people love. - Ethan Eismann

The end of responsive images - The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on the web. - Mat Marquis
Scroll-driven animations - One of the best ways to add a bit of personality to our websites is to animate things on scroll. - Joshua Comeau

On the right tool for the job - Not every job wants the same process. Reach for the tool that fits the problem in front of you right now, not the tool you used last time. That is the whole thing. - Karl Koch

You're not behind - You’re not falling behind. You’re in the middle of learning something new, along with everyone else. Me included. The reminder I keep coming back to is this: we're designers, not our tools. - Joey Banks
Agents with taste - An engineer has never been more leveraged than today thanks to a fleet of agents. But when it comes to more visual work, like animations, coding agents don’t quite know what great feels like. - Emil Kowalski

Agentic Experience Design Is a new discipline - Agentic Experience Design (AXD) is a discipline now. For some it will still feel like an emerging discipline but I think for many it is shaping up in real-time. - Marie-Claire Dean