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Agents do not need a mouse. They do not need a menu. They do not need a canvas. They need structured state they can read, reason about, and rewrite.

To understand our customers, we must triangulate across four levels of customer understanding by Hannah Shamji. It's a useful way to think about the underlying reasons for user behavior, hidden motivations, and the complex layers of messy and noisy reality that are often overlooked.

I've illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products that you may have taken for granted.

The LLM is becoming the new experience OS. Not a channel, not a feature, not even a 'frontend layer.' An operating system, in the original sense: the substrate that mediates between intent and action, that decides what gets surfaced, that holds the rules about what is allowed, that brokers between the user and everything else.

A spec like this would solve all sorts of issues design systems teams struggle with.

The answers come from over 900 designers at startups, enterprises, and agencies who work across disciplines like product design, brand design, research, and design engineering.

Search, copy, and ship 6,047+ brand SVG icons. Open-source library with npm, React, Vue, Svelte, CLI, CDN, and MCP server support.

Style the gaps between grid, flexbox, and multi-column layouts without using borders or pseudo-elements.

The idea that our design systems can, even should, be powered by components written in a specific framework is wild to me.

Staggered cascade effect in one line of CSS without :nth-child() rules or JS workarounds.

It's fine-tuned for editing Figma files, so outputs are tailored to your design context and built for direct manipulation so you can stay in control.

A folder of files on your laptop. Claude reads them before answering, writes to them after, sweeps them every Friday.

What you find in an audit is a record of constraints, not a catalog of failures.

I'm not very good with colours so it makes a big difference to me to have a reasonable colour palette that somebody who is better at colour than me has thought about.

round() is a small addition to your fluid-sizing toolkit, but it pays off when you want predictable steps like typography scales, spacing tokens, or snapping components to a layout grid.

Products will keep coming and going, but these core ‘body’ parts won’t. Hopefully this gives you an easier way to understand them.

Over the last few months, Tommy Geoco has went on site to study today's top design teams (Vercel, Perplexity, Metalab, Ramp, etc.).

The shift from AI Designer to AI Experience Architect is not about working faster, it is a change in how you do your work and what you are accountable for.

As artifact creation becomes effortless, value shifts upward. The strategic layer above generation becomes more important than ever.

Anthropic’s Claude Code engineer on why HTML replaces Markdown, building micro-apps for spec editing, living design systems, and becoming a “compute allocator”.

A clean design system behaves like well-structured CSS. Inheritance flows, overrides are rare, and each layer respects the next. Here's how that mindset holds up in an agentic AI world.

43 interactive field cards covering nudges, biases, heuristics, and AI phenomena. A practical reference for designers, researchers, and product teams building with AI.

It's fast becoming the case that if you put any Mac app's icons in reverse, it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really, really good at icon design.

If you are sitting on a portfolio right now and not getting the calls you think you should be getting, there is a chance at least one of these is the reason.

Facts don't just advocate for the user; they prove that UX is a non-negotiable requirement for a healthy bottom line.

Acceptance and commitment therapy is a whole thing worth exploring. With acceptance, with the acknowledgment that AI is here, it's likely not going away, despite my feelings and my grief around it.

If you don't want your floating chat button to end up sitting behind the home indicator, where it's unreachable, you need to account for the safe area inset.

Most users never need to reset a form. If they make mistakes, they fix them and move on.