AI mania is eviscerating global decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
Tuesday07/21
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Five to Nine: a photographic series
This series slips into the hours after the badge comes off—the unbranded life where designers become someone the job never meets.
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The self-driving company
We are beginning to see what happens when a company learns to operate itself.
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Loading UI
Free and open source CSS and React loaders, spinners, and animations to create polished, accessible loading states for modern web apps.
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Are we stuck in the typographic principles of the 20th century?
A manual for the most unstable art: type design.
Monday07/20
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Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment
Jeffrey Zeldman helped end the browser wars by making the case for standards. We are starting that journey again.
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Earning taste and judgment
Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you’re junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose.
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A history of menus is a menu of history
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
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Do we still need build tools?
How necessary are build tools for frontend development in 2026? Let’s take a look.
Friday07/17
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Against bigness
Organisations say they want innovation but keep killing it. The problem is the organisational decision-making machinery.
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People will always need to trust the human behind any decision-making
When your manager is paying more attention to AI than your creative role, what can you do?
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Design systems need evals
You’ve taught agents your design system. You still don’t know whether they’re following it.
Thursday07/16
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Punch yourself in the face with reality
Who can punch themselves in the face with reality the most? This is who will win in the age of AI.
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Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation
Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways to explore and create visual content.
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Pac-Hunt: You’re the ghost
Gotta love a strong and simple game concept. Corner Pac‑Man before he clears the maze.
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What is this UI element called?
See the UI element, learn its real name and API symbol, and copy a precise prompt for your coding agent.
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If I want more IRL, I must go AFK
I use a computer for hours and hours a day, partly because I love it, and partly to compensate for my disability. But how much is too much?
Wednesday07/15
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Museum of the Human Web
Preserving the cultural artifacts that shaped internet history.
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AI 2040
A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.
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Free the icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons.
Tuesday07/14
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The people who will thrive in the AI age
What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
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Dot Matrix
A React component library of dot matrix loaders—expressive loading primitives you install via the shadcn registry and own as local code.
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Learning to code is still worthwhile
Code is possibly the best medium to learn mathematics, and meta-skills for learning in general.
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The future worth building is human
AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.
Monday07/13
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Flodesk Studio: AI email design, built by real designersSponsored
Describe what you want, get a beautiful on-brand email. Human-crafted foundations, AI-accelerated. Free in beta, works with any ESP.
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The hard things about design
An honest accounting of what the craft costs, and why it costs more than the crafts sitting right next to it.
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a11y.quest
128 questions to level up your web accessibility game. Practice WCAG 2.2, ARIA, semantic HTML, keyboard, and contrast, with plain-English answers.
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Creative focus
This year is Apple’s 50th year in business. Decades ago, it lost creative focus, and spread itself too thin.