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uxdesign.cc

The organizational cost of low taste

When taste is weak, everything survives long enough to demand justification, and the organization slowly confuses activity with progress.

earth-garden.alen.ro

Earth Garden

Rotate a globe and listen to nearby nature soundscapes curated from Freesound.

blog.grandimam.com

Repricing of software engineering labor

The market is repricing software engineering labor—collapsing the premium for generalists while raising the value of deep expertise.

carmenansio.com

Halftone in the browser

I kept an old iMac alive for years just to run Freehand MX. Halftones, moirés, film separations.

alistapart.com

Designed for a dead language

Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin.

uxdesign.cc

Figma just made your design system debt everyone’s problem

For years, design system work lost the roadmap fight quietly. Config 2026 made the losing loud. That changes who has to care.

eng.basement.studio

Shader Lab

A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders.

dbreunig.com

The problem is prompt debt

Plain-English prompts make prototyping effortless but specify system behavior poorly. The technical debt builds slowly until apps stall.

figma.com

Moodboard 3000

An image layout engine for Figma. Select images on canvas, choose a layout, and generate a composed moodboard.

dev.karltryggvason.com

You can’t unit test for taste

Why automated compliance fails to yield aesthetic coherence, proving subjective judgment remains a hard requirement.

bit.ly

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renderghost.leaflet.pub

Splitting atoms & splitting hairs

Atomic design got us from thinking about pages to thinking about components, but we don’t need to keep carrying the periodic table around.

henryach.com

Ten years of Terms and Conditions

Recording all the "terms and conditions" I claimed to have read on a computer or phone for 10 years.

bram.us

Do websites need to function exactly the same on every platform?

We seem to be stuck on a new hurdle: the idea that websites need to function the same everywhere.

logodesignlove.com

Yakitoriya, by Art Lebedev

This illustrative logo for a chain of Japanese restaurants caught my eye. Designed by Egor Zhgun of Art. Lebedev Studio.

uxdesign.cc

Rethinking Figma in an AI world

Config 2026 reveals Figma’s high-stakes gamble to survive an era of agentic workflows in a code-native environment.

airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

blog.murphytrueman.com

Your design system has a new author

Authored change has outpaced the review model, and that breaks more than it looks.

keybr.com

keybr.com - Typing lessons

Teaching the world to type at the speed of thought! Typing lessons that work.

gerireid.com

Your documentation is still in your Mum’s filing cabinet

It’s kind of wild that we’re still organising knowledge like it’s sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don’t think in folders.