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.

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.

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

Create better faux UI with agents. Avoid results often look sloppy and heavy-handed.

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.

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.

A fully functioning clockwork made from trash and other stuff that I found in Glashütte, Saxony.

A different way to think about creative work.

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.

Find out how emotionally devastating a chapter is before you read it.

Code review was always meant as a verification step: does the code produce the outcome we want?

Intuitive drawings of places made from memory alone, in a 64-page book designed to feel unfinished.

Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type.

What the 2026 numbers say about privacy and control, and guesses for where the privacy business goes next.

A curated collection of early computer software claiming some aspect of artificial intelligence as a primary feature.

John Maeda on why makers need to understand people and communicate.

Intent logos, colors, typography, iconography, foundations, and components.