Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era
Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.
Thursday09/17
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WCAG Accessibility Guidelines Explorer
Learn and understand web accessibility standards with interactive demos showing violations vs. solutions.
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Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code
Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems
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The most important product decision is what you don’t build
Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.
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Seats and sunsets
Understanding agent orchestration economics, model capability thresholds, token burn rates, and structural failure modes.
Wednesday09/16
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Dario, please
Debunking AI apocalypse hype and exposing CEO calls for open-source bans as self-serving tactics to protect corporate moats.
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Opusfived
Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.
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Rauno's field notes: 5
How removing pagination arrows in favor of interactive card stacks solves tight UI spatial constraints.
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Sidebranch: worktree visual diffing
Review PRs from inside your running app: switch branches from an in-page widget and compare worktrees side by side.
Tuesday09/15
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We must pace the frontier
Dario Amodei proposes a three-step framework for AI companies to slow capability progress to ensure safety systems.
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Bencho
A library of interactive UI blocks you can explore, tweak, and take straight into your projects.
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Optical vs. mathematical alignment
While software can place objects with mathematical precision, our eyes don’t always agree with the result.
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Planning with agents
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents.
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If coding is solved, what now?
Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.
Monday09/14
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Productivity for people with back-to-back meetingsSponsored
No more "wait, what did we decide?" moments. Just clarity. And follow-through.
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Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era
Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.
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CUBE Type
A tiny playground for isometric typography. Type a few words. Get isometric block letters you can export and share. Free, no sign-up.
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AI is breaking this thing we call trust
Work can look finished without being understood. That uncertainty erodes trust, slows reviews, and leaves colleagues doing the missing work.
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Canvas Browser
Open many websites side by side on one infinite canvas, each one running in a remote browser in the country you choose.
Friday09/11
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AI is making us build too much
AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.
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Kugiri (区切り)
Splits text into lines, words and characters exactly where the browser already broke it.
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Don’t ask to ask, just ask
If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we?
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Why products get worse
Where quality lives, and how companies drain it from your products without a metric moving.
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Building data-driven design systems
How I scaled Scribe’s design system to help serve over 6 million users.
Thursday09/10
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One floor up
OpenAI and Anthropic describe agents reaching real systems during evaluations. The capability is here. So is the work of containing it.
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GridScout’s brand identity
How industrial visual languages build credibility with field crews and corporate boards alike.
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DialKit
Tune interfaces in real time and make the details feel right. DialKit puts live controls beside the interface you’re building.
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Wednesday09/09
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Limit the number of details
Every detail asks for attention. Limiting how many we add is what gives us room to make the ones that remain better.
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Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence
A new omni world model for spatial intelligence, that can perform a broad range of tasks spanning world generation, reconstruction, and simulation.
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Opensource UI
A free, MIT-licensed copy-paste library of 200+ production-ready React and Next.js components. Built with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS v4.
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The designer who drew Cursor’s icons
Marek Minor drew Cursor’s complete icon set, more than 600 icons by hand.
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Four questions about AGI
How much work that undefined term is being asked to do, and an attempt to understand it better.