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johannesippen.com

How design helped Zohran win

A campaign design analysis of "Zohran for NYC"—and what you can take away from it.

design.dev

Metallic text effect generator

Create metallic text effects with CSS gradients. Choose from gold, silver, chrome, and more with real-time preview.

piccalil.li

View transitions: practical examples to elevate your UI

A powerful way to create animated transitions between two states.

inclusivecolors.com

Accessible color palette creator

A tool for making custom branded color palettes built to meet accessible contrast requirements for WCAG, ADA and Section 508.

nngroup.com

AI prototyping in real design contexts

Good from afar, but far from good.

wreflection.com

AI’s dial-up era

We’re in 1995 again. This time with Artificial Intelligence.

amazonclimatejustice.org

AI open letter by Amazon workers

Telling Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Every single signature makes the message stronger.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies

In three months, Puneet did more than 60 interviews at 11 companies, including Google, Uber, Amazon, Atlassian, and others.

mikegallagher.org

Design principles for teams working in healthcare

An attempt to define what we mean when we say a “good user experience” in the context of the NHS.

waspdev.com

Some software bloat is OK

The software efficiency in an era of fast CPUs, gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of storage.

adamsilver.io

Why I don’t test different designs at the same time

Parts of A are better, parts of B are better, and there’s probably a Version C that would beat them both.

visualrambling.space

Dithering

Understanding how dithering works, visually.

frederickvanbrabant.com

Architectural debt is not just technical debt

Code debt are the hacks you put in place to reach a deadline; architectural debt are the decisions that come back to bite you six months later.

belfercenter.org

Design from the margins

Free book. Centering the most marginalized and impacted in design processes - from ideation to production.

ethanmarcotte.com

Against the protection of stocking frames

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

yusufaytas.com

How AI broke interviews

AI erased trust in remote interviewing. Here’s how the system broke and how companies are rebuilding interviews around real human reasoning.

wired.com

AI of a thousand faces

What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

gq.com

The top secret Virgil Abloh archive

A team of archivists has tirelessly catalogued one of the most remarkable private fashion collections ever assembled.

itsnicethat.com

Bold.af: the Affinity rebrand

How Canva’s pro sister has undergone a huge overhaul inside and out.

chrbutler.com

The fundamentals problem

Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.