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medium.com

On being a designer in the most interesting, exhausting moment of our careers

Prioritizing mental clarity over speed to maintain high craft standards.

keithcirkel.co.uk

CSS or BS?

Think you know CSS? Real property or made-up nonsense? 20 rounds. No mercy.

hidde.blog

Open web vs AI: what can W3C do?

Thoughts after breakout at AC meeting.

nngroup.com

Boost design autonomy with an information pipeline

A four-step framework for building influence over product direction by closing the information gaps that large, complex organizations create.

dir14.com

Users own the present. You own the future.

Users know their day. They don’t know your roadmap. Why smart users give convincing wrong answers, and how to do research that opens product space.

linear.app

Output isn’t design

The assumption behind AI design tools is very clear: that design is the act of producing.

designtools.fyi

designtools.fyi

Compare design tools across different capabilities. Find the best tools for designers, design engineers, and non-designers.

sheets.works

154 Macs since 1983

A visual biography.

frontendmasters.com

AI-generated UI is inaccessible by default

It doesn’t mean you can’t get AI to help with accessible code, you’ve just got to know what you’re doing.

greaterwrong.com

The world can’t keep up with AI Labs

Rapid AI scaling outpaces our ability to build safety guardrails.

permissionless.krispuckett.com

Field notes from the in-between

What happens when a designer stops waiting.

photopalettes.com

Photo palettes

Find color inspiration in the everyday.

gbbns.co

The accessibility problem isn’t design. It’s engineering.

Full-stack hiring, AI-generated code with no context, and a compliance-first mentality have combined to create a crisis hiding in plain sight.

joshwcomeau.com

Scroll-driven animations

The new Animation Timeline API allows us to create dynamic scroll animations without any JavaScript.

warman.life

The moat or the commons

American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly.

ky.fyi

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

karlkoch.me

On the right tool for the job

Choose the right tool for each project based on its requirements, not past preferences.

github.com

A11Y.md

A context system for building accessible software by default—for developers and AI, with enforceable rules aligned to WCAG.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Tokenmaxxing as a weird new trend

Devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.

crixu.blog

AI reads my meetings. I take more notes than ever.

Discover why combining AI meeting tools with handwritten notes enhances your insights.