Design is a search problem
Most of what we call ‘design’ is groping around a dark room looking for a black cat.
Most of what we call ‘design’ is groping around a dark room looking for a black cat.
From Lufthansa’s crane to United’s tulip, the stories behind twelve airline logos designed for the jet age.
A testament to the inescapable pull of making something out of nothing.
Take the State of JavaScript survey: a programming language that grew up much, much bigger than anybody ever anticipated.
Software used to be made like a painting, one layer at a time. With agents, it’s closer to sculpture, and the hard part is seeing what to keep.
How Nunebot makes my apps a little better every day without me doing the tedious parts.
Become one of the babies being born right now and live their whole life inside the real statistics of 172 countries and territories.
If you’ve been in this industry for any length of time you’ll have seen titles come and go, and you might have wondered where they all came from.
For Claude to learn from experience, it has to decide what’s worth remembering before it knows what’s next.
How to talk about design systems across functions.
The award spotlights inventive projects made with Readymag, a design tool for creating outstanding websites. Explore the shortlist and vote.
Maybe it’s less about machine-legible artifacts and more about where humans stay in the loop.
An organic glow that hugs the edge of your screen. Zero-dependency Canvas 2D engine with a thin React adapter.
See how a web page will behave in different contexts that force unusual viewport sizes.
Here’s why the hardest design decisions happen where that autonomy ends.
Superior Type’s Heaven is a brutalist grotesque built on round shapes that are too big for their space.
A monospace font that highlights LLM tokens as you type. No JavaScript, just OpenType substitution rules and a color table.
A report from the future on AI, attention, and the maintenance of civilization
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.