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uxdesign.cc

What is the purpose of software

Mapping 50 years of economic data to measure software's productivity yield.

gkurt.com

Tegaki

Animated handwriting from any font.

karlkoch.me

On teaching AI how you work

Personal skills turn years of writing into loadable judgement you can install instead of re-explaining, and one command that runs all of it.

interfaces.kylejeong.com

The AI Interface Museum

A visual history of how humans learned to interact with AI.

about.gitlab.com

When code is abundant

Producing code is getting cheap. Trusting it is not. Why enterprises need a durable layer of context, verification, and governance around AI.

ilyabirman.net

Vibe coding and quality

Just last year, vibe coding seemed like a toy. Today I think that high quality is achievable only through vibe coding

blog.murphytrueman.com

Every fork looks like adoption

How we measure design system adoption and how the graph keeps going up anyway.

is-agentic.com

Is Agentic

Score how ready a website is for AI agents, then get evidence and recommendations to improve it.

balsa-ui.com

Balsa UI

Balsa UI is an agent-native, open-code component system for Vue and React.

youtube.com

Susan Kare: Designing icons & graphics for the original Mac

Stories behind the Happy Mac, Command key, Chicago font, and more, along with the design lessons Susan learned from Steve Jobs and others.

bit.ly

The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory for your AI Agents. Without a meeting bot. Try it in your next meeting.

var0.xyz

Perfection is not over-engineering

The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They’re not the same.

elliotjaystocks.com

Keeping type consistent in changing conditions

How typographic grade preserves visual balance across screens and print substrates without altering layout geometry.

utopia.fyi

Fluid type scale calculator

Generate CSS clamp functions for fluid typography scales, automating responsive font sizing across viewports.

how.complexsystems.fail

How complex systems fail

Latent flaws, hindsight bias, and operator adaptation. Offering product teams a framework for system safety.

sunilpai.dev

The task isn’t the job

A new role, and some questions I want to build my way through.

doc.cc

Syntax

This series examines core concepts shaping our designed world, tracing their origins and dissecting their practical significance.

academy.claude.com

Claude Academy

Free courses, tutorials, and use cases from Anthropic — whether you’re exploring AI, getting started with Claude, or rolling it out to your team.

rip.so

RIP.so: the digital graveyard

A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.

uxdesign.cc

How to become an AI Designer

A realistic guide to shipping your own designs.