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creativeboom.com

Six surprising illustration trends for 2026

Creative Boom asked a selection of artists and their representatives to cast their minds ahead and visualize what’s in store for the next 12 months.

wallpaper.com

Can design make you healthier?

Our built environment can have a direct impact on physical and mental wellbeing. How are architects creating spaces that support health and humanity?

piccalil.li

Programming principles for self taught front-end developers

The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that’s fine. What's missing?

medienbaecker.com

Dialog view transitions

Combining view transitions and the dialog element—possible?

thomwolf.substack.com

What jobs are made of

Judgment, agency, and the limits of AI benchmarks.

uxdesign.cc

A product manager’s 48 reflections on 2025

The year when AI stopped feeling like just a tool and started to feel more like a mirror.

thecreativeindependent.com

Managing creative highs and lows

Musician Carlyn Bezic discusses the power of an alter-ego, deriving liberation from near-death experiences, and anticipating limitations.

lucumr.pocoo.org

A year of vibes

A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.

vale.rocks

You can’t opt-out of accessibility

Shiny exclusion all the way down.

thealgorithmicbridge.com

The shape of artificial intelligence

They say the shape of things only becomes legible at a distance.

linear.app

Design is more than code

Design as a search, not a pipeline. How tools carry opinions, and how those opinions shape what feels “reasonable” to attempt.

activisthandbook.org

Activist handbook

Learn how to become a social activist, plan a political campaign strategy, and start a grassroots movement.

the-brandidentity.com

Case study: Maple’s voice AI research

HEX builds a sound wave typography system for Maple’s voice AI research.

libraryoftime.xyz

Library of time

All of the unique ways different people chose to satisfy one of humanity's most universal curiosities.

epochai.substack.com

The changing drivers of LLM adoption

Public data as well as our original polling suggest LLM adoption is roughly on trend, but the underlying drivers are shifting.

bit.ly

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anildash.com

They have to be able to talk about us without us

Is it simply impossible to effectively tell a story at scale if you don’t have massive resources?

figma.com

Hard problems are still hard

Figma designer–turned–product manager Nikolas Klein worked on building prototyping tools for seven years. Then AI changed the game.

varchive.ai

V-archive

Varchive is a showcase of AI-assisted builds, inspiration, and how-tos. Itself assisted by AI.

smashingmagazine.com

How to measure the impact of features

A simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features.