What the AI era owes you
No one is going to save your career from AI.
Thursday10/15
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The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
Researching the different docks in macOS through the years and compiling them all into a single graphic.
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We read 102 EU shop accessibility statements
What EU online shops actually write in their accessibility statements, counted.
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Imperfection
If you're reading this, I regret to inform you that I finally published an update to my personal site. I guess I made it.
Wednesday10/14
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Grieving the loss of details
Over the course of a year, I went from having a planned future to worrying about applying for disability.
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A flame needs three sine waves
How a few pencil sketches turned into a matchstick you can strike, and why the flicker needed three sine waves instead of one.
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Energy icons
Open-source icon library for the renewable energy and energy-transition sector. Two optical masters, scaled — never redrawn.
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Inside Anthropic’s design team
How Anthropic’s design team is adapting to a widening velocity gap between eng and design.
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Anatomy
A Claude skill that draws an idea as the real machine that does it: a live isometric figure you can turn, press and read.
Tuesday10/13
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Designing Michelangelus
Inside the making of Michelangelus, a contemporary serif shaped by handwriting, architecture, and stone.
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Is AI the end of math as we know it?
Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas.
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Native page transitions on the web
Router-agnostic page transitions for React, Svelte, Vue, Solid, Angular, and Qwik.
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
Monday10/12
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Put your meetings to workSponsored
Meetings aren’t the problem. The challenge is everything that comes after them. Download Granola for free and use it in your next meeting.
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The designer’s constitution
A model for rethinking what makes a designer in the age of AI.
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Decorative images aren’t a thing
Adding an image to a design, email, document, page, app, etc. is done for a reason.
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Friday10/09
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AI invasive design
We can all agree ”AI native“ is a little bit bullshit, but does it have to be so dystopian?
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Creative Intelligence Report
We surveyed 150k+ working creatives to explore how AI is changing creative work.
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A design system is what it does
A comparison of how two design systems handle the humble text component.
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Field Notes: Design Outcomes
Tactics from the best design teams and individuals working today, with notes on how the work got made.
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Bringing warmth and fun to São Paulo’s bars and restaurants
References, details and techniques being deployed by Brazilian design studios to bring playfulness and nostalgia to the city’s streets.
Thursday10/08
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Agents don’t need memory. They need documentation.
Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.
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12 axes
A complete, free political quiz: find your political ideology, compatible country and political figure across 12 axes.
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Money as a file
A working prototype that lets you move test money as a file: into Finder, along with a message, or directly between two phones.
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Agentic systems are the future of brands
Agentic Brand Systems, a Little Plains research note.
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Chat is AI’s command line
AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.
Wednesday10/07
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On being anything other than a designer
There’s that person in your job who is the one people call for all kinds of tasks that only “they can do.”
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Emerging patterns: design leadership in 2026
Findings from nearly 120 design leaders — pathways, mentorship, portfolio careers, tooling, and the human qualities of leadership.
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The era of cmd+tab
An essay that degrades 1% at a time, and a little more every time you leave it.
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Design is a nice-to-have
I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.