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  • Declarative audio synthesis library for the web by Raphael Salaja

    Define sounds as plain objects and play them with a single function call.

  • Thoughtful AI implementation for UXR leaders by Ashlee Edwards

    Setting a vision will guide you and team to the right tools, in the right context.

  • The slop isn't the models by Karl Koch

    Everyone’s tired of AI slop in design. I get it. The flat illustrations all look the same. The landing pages read like nobody wrote them. The component libraries feel like a Tailwind starter someone forgot to edit. And no, Stitch doesn’t fix it.

  • Agent skills by Addy Osmani

    A senior engineer’s job is mostly the parts that don’t show up in the diff. Specs. Tests. Reviews. Scope discipline. Refusing to ship what can’t be verified. AI coding agents skip those parts by default. Agent Skills is my attempt to make them not optional.

  • UX design portfolio in 2026 by Jess Eddy

    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.

  • Testing agents on design systems by PJ Onori

    It’s really easy to say agents are able to use a design system. See, I just said it–that’s how easy it is. It’s another thing to show that agents are able it use it well–with receipts to prove it.

  • Compositing and blending by Niklas Gadermann

    Every pixel you see on this page is the result of stacking hundreds of elements on top of each other and deciding, millions of times, pixel by pixel, what the result should look like.

  • Agentic Experience Design Is a new discipline by Marie-Claire Dean

    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.

  • Designing stable interfaces for streaming content by Joas Pambou

    More interfaces now render while the response is still being generated. The UI begins in one state, then updates as more data comes in. You see this in chat apps, logs, transcription tools, and other real-time systems.

  • When frequency isn't signal by Murphy Trueman

    The rule design systems use to promote patterns stops working the moment AI is generating the instances.

  • Component(.)md by Ian Guisard

    Anyone leading a design system has the same question to answer: are your components still readable only by humans a year from now?

  • On the right tool for the job by Karl Koch

    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.

  • Agentic design systems codebase navigation by Robin Di Capua

    Unpacking the deliberate steps, logic, and reasoning pipelines used by agents to work with your design system.

  • Agents with taste by Emil Kowalski

    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.

  • 10 UI patterns that won't survive the AI shift by Taras Bakusevych

    A practical guide with real product examples of what's replacing them.

  • Scroll-driven animations by Joshua Comeau

    One of the best ways to add a bit of personality to our websites is to animate things on scroll.

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