What we lost in the AI chat stream
Most of the chat is iteration, not insight. The real cost is the thinking we stop doing.
Tuesday05/26
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Habib Hajallie’s meticulous ballpoint pen drawings
The Kent-based artist grapples memories, connection, and devastating loss.
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The impact of AI-generated text on the Internet
By mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted.
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The disappearance of the public bench
When benches are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
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Showreel.design
Discover amazing motion design and animation work from talented creators worldwide.
Monday05/25
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A smaller screen needs a different storySponsored
Why adapting a website for mobile is rarely just about making things smaller — insights from Readymag’s marketing designer.
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Everyone’s a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking.
Thought leadership got cheap. Thinking didn’t.
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AI in Design Report 2026
How design teams are adapting to AI across tooling, craft, and org.
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The interface is no longer the product
The deck, doc, or dashboard becomes the output, not the source of truth.
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Friday05/22
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The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
A major inflection point as the tech industry’s imperial mindset crumbles under intense social backlash.
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Why I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable
Why predictable CSS state resolution matters, and how Tasty approaches it with state maps and non-overlapping selectors.
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Just a design list
A slow, curated index of design studios and independent practices. 814 entries across 54 countries.
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The sites we lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
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WebAIM: Tolerating inaccessibility
Despite an increase in interest and the tireless efforts of digital accessibility professionals, the web is less accessible than it was a year ago.
Thursday05/21
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Stack Overflow: when we stop asking
It still hits like a ton of bricks to see the steep decline in Stack Overflow questions. What does that mean about learning in our industry?
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Hostile volume: begin the suffering
A volume setting experience designed for maximum frustration. Can you beat the audit?
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Fontastic Space
Compare Google Fonts with anatomy overlays, metrics & pairing scores. Free.
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Ten data-backed truths of UX ROI
Facts that link user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth.
Wednesday05/20
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The workflow collision
Your team’s workflow and your agent’s lifecycle want different things.
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Your design system might be AI-ready. Your organisation probably isn’t.
The technical preparation is well underway. The organisational questions it creates are a different problem entirely.
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Tuesday05/19
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Don’t outsource the learning
Right now, it’s too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning.
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Tristan Davey’s punch card archive
A small archive of punch cards and ephemera from the 1930s through 1980s.
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Case study: branding & packaging for Juana
Identity, logo, wordmark, packaging and typography for CBD beauty brand Juana by Made Thought.
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Tools the Vercel product design team actually uses
Design tools are changing fast in a world that has never felt more disrupt-able.
Monday05/18
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html.to.design — New Chrome extension featureSponsored
Capture entire webpages (or sections), copy to clipboard, Ctrl+V into Figma, start editing.
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Defense against dishonest charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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theSVG
Search, copy, and ship 6,030+ brand SVG icons. Open-source library with npm, React, Vue, Svelte, CLI, CDN, and MCP server support.
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How the pursuit of optimisation reshaped art, aesthetics and us
As frictionlessness colonises everyday life, artists, designers and theorists are asking what gets lost.
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A catechism for robots
Autonomous systems require more than just logic rules; they need core moral values.