Generate premium grayscale design tokens in OKLCH.

Are activities motivated by an array of reasons much less useful than ones done with a distinct purpose?

Or how we refactored half the business to fix a janky script.

Codebases deteriorate quickly when automated agents generate user interfaces without canonical constraints.

An interactive photo timeline of NASA’s Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip.

Patterns for building software that handles money.

When you’re designing motion, you’re designing with time. Understanding the mechanics turns movement into meaning.

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

Find your question among hundreds of astronaut interviews aboard the International Space Station.

How to design to rebuild trust in using public services for people who have been affected by scams.

An applied framework for designing AI interfaces that support appropriate reliance, user control, transparency, and responsible autonomy.

Designing a single set of glyphs—one that’s as important and (literally) iconic as it is easy to mess up.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.