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Monday07/13
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The hard things about design
An honest accounting of what the craft costs, and why it costs more than the crafts sitting right next to it.
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a11y.quest
128 questions to level up your web accessibility game. Practice WCAG 2.2, ARIA, semantic HTML, keyboard, and contrast, with plain-English answers.
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Creative focus
This year is Apple’s 50th year in business. Decades ago, it lost creative focus, and spread itself too thin.
Friday07/10
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Getdesign.md
Browse independent design system analyses from popular websites. Drop one into your project as design reference for your coding agent.
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Ease in, ease out, and everything between
If you have ever grabbed a handle in the pen tool, you know how to write a CSS easing curve.
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Soulless Music
A list of AI artists hiding on Spotify and stealing from real artists. An open source project.
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers
Junior programming roles are getting destroyed by AI. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title.
Thursday07/09
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InkField Gallery
A gallery of InkField JSON recordings — humans and agents learning from each other.
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Most AI work can wait
Prioritize routing over model choice. Most AI work runs on cheap local models.
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Paper Shaders
Ultra-fast zero-dependency shaders for you to use in your projects, as React components or GLSL.
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Stop reporting UX activity and report business outcomes
UX teams should report business outcomes to show impact on revenue, cost, risk, speed, retention, and to secure resources.
Wednesday07/08
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Never mind the prompts, here’s the thinking
A year rebuilding my studio’s entire design process around AI. It didn’t make us faster, and that’s exactly why it worked.
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Echo chamber: a healthy public square
How people end up in bubbles, and how easily a crowd can be split. A data visualization project.
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Closing the verification loop
How a branch proves itself ready: browser reality, persona eyes, and fixes that carry their own evidence.
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Astryx Design System
An open source design system that is fully customizable and agent ready.
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A global workspace in language models
Interpretability research on Claude’s internal thoughts.
Tuesday07/07
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What is product craft in the age of AI and design systems?
A design system can only raise the quality floor.
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Design engineering
What design engineering is, how it’s changed, and where it’s going.
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Open source alternatives to popular software
Best open source alternatives to everyday SaaS products. Save money with reliable tools hand-picked for you.
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How diamonds are made
Journey of a very old rock. An interactive data visualization.
Monday07/06
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Understanding is the new bottleneck
Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here are some techniques for doing that efficiently.
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When should you know the point?
Are activities motivated by an array of reasons much less useful than ones done with a distinct purpose?
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Design systems are no longer optional
Codebases deteriorate quickly when automated agents generate user interfaces without canonical constraints.
Friday07/03
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Legibility of effort
LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?
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Artemis II Photo Timeline
An interactive photo timeline of NASA’s Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip.
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Principles in motion
When you’re designing motion, you’re designing with time. Understanding the mechanics turns movement into meaning.
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Google Reader was building the wrong future
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.