How a few pencil sketches turned into a matchstick you can strike, and why the flicker needed three sine waves instead of one.

Open-source icon library for the renewable energy and energy-transition sector. Two optical masters, scaled — never redrawn.

How Anthropic’s design team is adapting to a widening velocity gap between eng and design.

A Claude skill that draws an idea as the real machine that does it: a live isometric figure you can turn, press and read.

Inside the making of Michelangelus, a contemporary serif shaped by handwriting, architecture, and stone.

Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas.

Router-agnostic page transitions for React, Svelte, Vue, Solid, Angular, and Qwik.

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

A model for rethinking what makes a designer in the age of AI.

Adding an image to a design, email, document, page, app, etc. is done for a reason.

Open source UI components with satisfying hover.

What changes when a tool doesn’t have to pay for itself.

We surveyed 150k+ working creatives to explore how AI is changing creative work.

A comparison of how two design systems handle the humble text component.

Tactics from the best design teams and individuals working today, with notes on how the work got made.

References, details and techniques being deployed by Brazilian design studios to bring playfulness and nostalgia to the city’s streets.

A complete, free political quiz: find your political ideology, compatible country and political figure across 12 axes.

A working prototype that lets you move test money as a file: into Finder, along with a message, or directly between two phones.

Agentic Brand Systems, a Little Plains research note.

AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.

A browsable semantic library for creative development resources.

Findings from nearly 120 design leaders — pathways, mentorship, portfolio careers, tooling, and the human qualities of leadership.

An essay that degrades 1% at a time, and a little more every time you leave it.

I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.

Portfolios from design managers, directors, VPs, and executives, each annotated with what it shows, why it works at that level, and what to steal.

Muse comes with an avatar you design and a keyring gadget. Few people would hand Meta their passwords, yet it topped the US App Store.

You manage agents, they manage more agents, and those agents manage even more agents.

On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.