Daily Curated Design News and Resources

Timeless principles that separate products people use from products people love.

The Inference System doesn’t care what the modal looks like but the insights to know when to invent something the library doesn’t contain at all.

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.

A technical walkthrough on how to build a small interactive cover component, with some nifty CSS tricks.

While breakpoints were an excellent answer to a real problem when multiple screen sizes emerged, modern interfaces are no longer page-first. They are component-first, nested, and reused across wildly different contexts.

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.

A common story in product development goes like this: execution is cheap now, so why not build more things and see what sticks?

Don’t just default to your usual way of taking notes. Think about what data you’ll need at the other end, and design your notes around it. The analysis (human or AI) will be much better for it.

Naming design tokens can look and feel simple right up until you have to do it for real. Choose a weak pattern and things get inconsistent fast. Choose a clear pattern and you get a shared language that helps both design and engineering move quicker.

We’ll cover optical effects that elevate icons from good to great, borrowing heavily from type design.

Without a critical human eye, AI produces slop. The quality bar is yours to maintain.

Taste has become a serious topic in tech. When everyone can produce something that looks decent, the advantage shifts to judgment.

Lately, I’ve been talking websites into existence. Not metaphorically, but actually sitting in important meetings with people — clients, collaborators, my wife, friends, neighbors — watching real websites materialize in front of us as we converse.

Design keeps being misunderstood in our industry. New tools keep promising to generate interfaces faster, move words to product instantly, or collapse design directly into code. The assumption behind them is clear: that design is the act of producing.

Interesting thoughts on taste, being creative with AI, and how to thrive in a 0-1 environment.

Putting the cart before the horse is not giving you real velocity wins.

I think Figma is increasingly becoming a go-to case study in the victims of the so-called "SaaSpocalypse".

Possible paths for where the judgment goes when AI handles the production.

A Claude-powered Figma plugin built around an agent loop — not a chat window.

When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design.

The real danger happens when expansion artifacts show up in the training data for the next generation of generative AI.

There's a kind of work that happens before anything gets made. It's the work of sitting with a decision long enough to actually believe in it.