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nooneshappy.com

Appearing productive in the workplace

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

pentagram.com

Caligra c100 Developer Terminal

Industrial design of computer hardware for professional environments—a case study.

wordamour.com

Wordamour

Turn your cherished words into a beautiful, printed word search puzzle.

smashingmagazine.com

Designing stable interfaces for streaming content

Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice.

thetypicalset.com

The bottleneck was never the code

The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.

doc.cc

Collected consciousness

AI product design for empowering human creativity.

griddyicons.com

Griddy icons

A free open-source icon family with a unique utilitarian vibe.

joanwestenberg.com

The “passive income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

How chasing passive income destroys the focus needed to build meaningful products.

styles.refero.design

Design.md supply

Search a curated design.md library for AI agents: colors, typography, spacing, and component patterns from top websites.

lesswrong.com

You are not immune to mode collapse

How to keep digital experiences feeling authentic and genuinely useful.

mattstromawn.com

Design from the inside

There is no ‘source of truth’ when everything changes at every moment.

cognitivebiasindex.com

Cognitive Biases

A tool for identifying and mitagating the systematic errors in thinking that affect the decisions and judgments that humans make.

flipbook.page

Flipbook

An infinite visual browser generated entirely on demand in real time.

tinto.rafaelbombana.com

Tinto

Memorize the color. Score as many points as possible.

every.to

A guide to agent-native Product Management

A step-by-step guide to using agentic capabilities for better product management

design-is-the-work.figma.site

Design is the work

AI tooling are great if you already know what you’re building and why. It’s dangerous if you don’t.

linkedin.com

The five dimensions of craft

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

ajitem.com

Six characters

What the PNR locator on your boarding pass actually contains, and why fare calculations are written in a currency that does not exist.

research.perplexity.ai

Designing, refining, and maintaining agent skills at Perplexity

How to build more predictable AI behaviors with agents.

worksinprogress.co

The world’s most complex machine

By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.