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buzzusborne.com

Pick three

Exploring the hidden cost of producing good, fast and cheap creative work.

avantgarde.110west40th.com

Avant Garde

A seminal, but somewhat overlooked by a wider public, magazine, which broke taboos, rattled some nerves and made a few enemies.

uxdesign.cc

Building an AI-ready design system library

Why my design system starts in code, and how I build, check and maintain the Figma library.

baselinedesign.com

The window with no buttons

Why the terminal feels so unfamiliar to designers, and how to read it anyway.

paper.design

Paper Mono

A beautiful monospace font family with 8 variable weights and coding ligatures, free and open source.

royfish.dev

Fingerprints are the new cookies

How browser fingerprinting replaces third-party cookies for persistent user tracking. And to the highest bidder it goes.

jelly-ui.com

Jelly UI

A dependency-free Web Components library for tactile product interfaces: soft-body physics, real form controls, dark mode, RTL and WCAG.

chrbutler.com

There will always be someone faster, cheaper, and better

AI has designers questioning everything. But the three things we think we’re chosen for haven’t changed at all.

github.com

Desigma

Free Figma alternative made on Rust. An independent, local-first, open-source design tool.

seldo.com

How to hire junior engineers in the age of AI

Junior developer hiring has collapsed because nobody knows how to interview for the new AI-assisted job.

bit.ly

The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. Give it a try during your next meeting.

doc.cc

Who owns the doubt?

Nobody arrives at their first design job doubting their first idea; they defend it, usually too loudly.

alfy.blog

A select should tell you something

Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.

noemamag.com

Now entering: The era of bleh

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

benji.org

Stageshow

Create better faux UI with agents. Avoid results often look sloppy and heavy-handed.

ryo.lu

Struggle together

I learned programming and design by trying, failing, and trying again. When I hit a wall, I figured out how to climb it.

the-brandidentity.com

The New York Times turns 175

A custom 175 mark and identity system to use across editorial, opinion, advertising, events and marketing.

dri.es

Website migration costs are going to zero

What happens when AI makes website migrations almost free?

hairline.lucasmarkes.com

Hairline

Thirty-three isometric line figures that answer the pointer. SVG, no dependencies, for React and for everything else.

texttocad.dev

Text-to-cad

Design physical products with AI. Free, open-source CAD for AI agents like Codex and Claude Code.