Great but painful
If you want to build a product that people will use, find something that people already do and make it less painful.
If you want to build a product that people will use, find something that people already do and make it less painful.
Skills are becoming the apps of the agentic era. What you learn shipping quality software still applies to them.
Brand redesign and digital foundations built to fight complexity and empower people, with a system that stays unmistakably Nu.
Being intentional about ways that you access digital technology, making each use a conscious choice.
A seminal, but somewhat overlooked by a wider public, magazine, which broke taboos, rattled some nerves and made a few enemies.
Why my design system starts in code, and how I build, check and maintain the Figma library.
Why the terminal feels so unfamiliar to designers, and how to read it anyway.
A beautiful monospace font family with 8 variable weights and coding ligatures, free and open source.
How browser fingerprinting replaces third-party cookies for persistent user tracking. And to the highest bidder it goes.
A dependency-free Web Components library for tactile product interfaces: soft-body physics, real form controls, dark mode, RTL and WCAG.
AI has designers questioning everything. But the three things we think we’re chosen for haven’t changed at all.
Free Figma alternative made on Rust. An independent, local-first, open-source design tool.
Junior developer hiring has collapsed because nobody knows how to interview for the new AI-assisted job.
Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. Give it a try during your next meeting.
Nobody arrives at their first design job doubting their first idea; they defend it, usually too loudly.
Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.
I learned programming and design by trying, failing, and trying again. When I hit a wall, I figured out how to climb it.
A custom 175 mark and identity system to use across editorial, opinion, advertising, events and marketing.
What happens when AI makes website migrations almost free?
Thirty-three isometric line figures that answer the pointer. SVG, no dependencies, for React and for everything else.
Design physical products with AI. Free, open-source CAD for AI agents like Codex and Claude Code.
Code is cheap now. What's still expensive is deciding what to build and how it should feel. I think that's the part the factory is missing.
Redefining Copilot via dynamic motion geometry, translating software logic into enterprise productivity.
People look at the roadmap and their commitments, and success is about how much of those they actually shipped.
Tilt your phone, or wave both hands at the camera: spread them for volume, raise them for pitch.
Designing AI edits people can inspect, accept and recover from without losing the work they wanted to keep.
Products ship with the same AI panel; people hunt for the off switch, and spend has outrun returns. Build features with AI, not AI features.
A fully functioning clockwork made from trash and other stuff that I found in Glashütte, Saxony.
Poster art as used in advertising for performances and films in a variety of Party-sponsored campaigns and ephemera.
If a design system’s components are slow to interact with, so are any apps built with it.