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blog.ronbronson.com

On being anything other than a designer

There’s that person in your job who is the one people call for all kinds of tasks that only “they can do.”

fglibs.com

F*cking good libraries

A browsable semantic library for creative development resources.

emergingpatterns.design

Emerging patterns: design leadership in 2026

Findings from nearly 120 design leaders — pathways, mentorship, portfolio careers, tooling, and the human qualities of leadership.

era-of-cmd-tab.vercel.app

The era of cmd+tab

An essay that degrades 1% at a time, and a little more every time you leave it.

draganbabic.com

Design is a nice-to-have

I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.

doc.cc

Prompting as self-portrait

AI installed a distorted mirror where the blank page used to be.

leadershipfolios.com

Leadership folios

Portfolios from design managers, directors, VPs, and executives, each annotated with what it shows, why it works at that level, and what to steal.

uxdesign.cc

Is Meta’s new AI agent easier to trust because it’s cute?

Muse comes with an avatar you design and a keyring gadget. Few people would hand Meta their passwords, yet it topped the US App Store.

lukew.com

Many agents, many views

You manage agents, they manage more agents, and those agents manage even more agents.

nytimes.com

In defense of the detour

On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.

bit.ly

Save time with Wispr Flow (4x faster than typing)Sponsored

The voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app.

uxdesign.cc

How to de-slopify your designs

Tips for anyone who vibecodes.

tomacco.github.io

Amazing glass

Glass that bends the page behind it. Liquid glass web components for HTML, React and Vue, tuned pixel by pixel against Apple’s own renderer.

unsung.aresluna.org

A loading state within a loading state

Loading is a complex space, where sometimes the most natural solution is a bad one.

hitesh.in

Google has the best AI money can buy. Its products still feel broken.

Google’s AI-era products keep breaking an old trust contract with users, and the model isn’t the reason.

renatovaldes.com

What happens when you can build it all yourself

What speed is doing to my expectations, my attention and the case for startup funding.

thinkingorbs.com

Thinking orbs

A React component library of well-crafted, animated orbs for AI: thinking, searching, compacting and more status indicators. Free, open source.

useblume.dev

Blume

The open-source docs framework for humans and agents. Drop Markdown into a folder and ship a fast docs site.

philipwalton.com

Modern web types

TypeScript intentionally doesn’t support all new APIs, but there’s an easy fix.

brookslybrand.com

Do frameworks matter anymore?

How abstractions constrain AI agents, helping engineering teams evaluate long-term web architecture choices.