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.
For years, design system work lost the roadmap fight quietly. Config 2026 made the losing loud. That changes who has to care.
Plain-English prompts make prototyping effortless but specify system behavior poorly. The technical debt builds slowly until apps stall.
An image layout engine for Figma. Select images on canvas, choose a layout, and generate a composed moodboard.
Why automated compliance fails to yield aesthetic coherence, proving subjective judgment remains a hard requirement.
DREAMCOMPOSER® transforms designs into impressive 3D mockups. Try 100+ KURZ transfer decorations and share results instantly.
Atomic design got us from thinking about pages to thinking about components, but we don’t need to keep carrying the periodic table around.
Recording all the "terms and conditions" I claimed to have read on a computer or phone for 10 years.
We seem to be stuck on a new hurdle: the idea that websites need to function the same everywhere.
This illustrative logo for a chain of Japanese restaurants caught my eye. Designed by Egor Zhgun of Art. Lebedev Studio.
Config 2026 reveals Figma’s high-stakes gamble to survive an era of agentic workflows in a code-native environment.
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
Authored change has outpaced the review model, and that breaks more than it looks.
Teaching the world to type at the speed of thought! Typing lessons that work.
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.
Why designers must move beyond interfaces to shape the systems, constraints, and behaviors beneath them.
In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.
An intentional steering layer can not only help but is increasingly needed in software today.
Push past what you thought was possible with code layers, Figma Motion, shaders, generative plugins and Weave tools, all on the canvas.
How strict visual systems prioritize automated rules over contextual quality.
Am I letting my own personal beliefs and biases affect the outcome I ultimately want?
The genesis and evolution of modern branding and visual identities, from the 19th century to how we experience them today.
A system that preserves the act of drawing itself, where every gesture is remembered and every image continues to evolve.
How prioritizing standard HTML features reduces maintenance and enhances long-term interface stability.
On designing finger-friendly interactions.
Abductive reasoning for design. Read any website’s taste: tokens + the decisions behind them. A Claude Code skill.
Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.
How software commoditization shifts user value from technical production to individual curation.
Inside — a survey of 309 researchers and leaders shows why insights struggle to shape decisions and how modern teams are closing that gap.
How shifting engineering to intent management accelerates feature deployment.
Cold email as an enduring protocol for intentional networking outside algorithm-driven platforms.
A few examples to help the average layperson understand the business side of AI.