What it means to design a platform
How interfaces, incentives, emergence, and second-order thinking make platforms a unique design opportunity
Monday01/30
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Refraction, dispersion, and other shader light effects
A guide on how to reproduce a chromatic dispersion effect for your React Three Fiber and shader projects.
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For your next side project, make a browser extension
Reflections on the benefits of tweaking an existing app, instead of starting from scratch.
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The Mystery of the Dune Font
Putting a name to the typeface that defined the visual identity of the science fiction series and its author, Frank Herbert
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Broider
This a tool for making "9-patch" borders. Draw on the grid above to design your pattern.
Friday01/27
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Neurodiversity Design System
The NDS is a coherent set of standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and user experience design for Learning Management Systems.
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Astro 2.0
Astro 2.0 is the first major web framework to deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX.
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Designing for the Developers
With a Finnish sensibility, Linear’s founders center software engineers in the development process.
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Prompt-Driven Design
Prompt-driven design is when an AI command bar functions as either the primary tool of navigation or output. Learn why this pattern is here to stay.
Thursday01/26
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Product design is going down a weird path, but we can still save it
A casual analysis of our current design industry compared to the old days and principles, and why it’s important to step back.
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CSS Wishlist 2023
Here’s my Top 5 short list of CSS features I want based on the work I do on a daily basis.
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Product Reviews And Ratings UX: A Designer’s Guide
How do we design effective reviews and ratings? With a distribution chart, decimal scores, tags, recommendation score and unedited product photos.
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UX lessons from a 17th-century warship disaster
The tragedy of the Vasa: Why the crown jewel of the Swedish navy sank on its maiden voyage and what UX professionals can learn from this
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The many deaths of UX design
How UX was proclaimed dead (again), what do AI and Elon Musk have to do with it, and what poses a real treat to the discipline of design.
Wednesday01/25
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Wonders of Street View
Explore the weird and wonderful things on Google Street View.
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Greater styling control over type with `initial-letter`
An overview of the new CSS property initial-letter for more styling control over the first letter.
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Creating the Wikimedia Design System
Wikipedia has been around for two decades, and the Wikimedia ecosystem has grown over the years.
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Sketch.com Redesign
Sketch, the all-in-one platform for digital design, redesigned their homepage and marketing site.
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Logggos — Well-Designed Logos for Your Inspiration
Discover inspiring logos sorted by industries, themes, typography style, branding color and more.
Tuesday01/24
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Lessons on How to Draw by Hokusai
In 1812, Japanese woodblock print artist Katsushika Hokusai published a three-volume series called Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing.
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Four Thousand Weeks
An exploration of time management in the face of human finitude, and addressing the anxiety of “getting everything done.”
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Level Up Your CSS Skills With The :has() Selector
The CSS relational selector :has() offers what was previously impossible without JavaScript. Let’s explore some magical powers that :has brings.
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The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible.
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Breaking free from the fear of empty space in Design
The unexpected parallels between UX design in technology startups and the elaborate ceramic tilework of Portuguese Azulejos.
Monday01/23
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Life, the UXverse and Everything
So Long UX, and Thanks for All the Fishbone Diagrams.
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More Real-World Uses for :has()
The :has() pseudo-class is, hands-down, my favorite new CSS feature.
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How To Make a Website
I got an email recently from a kind online friend who said they’d like to ask about my process or what makes a good website.
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Designing a robust right-to-left UI in Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi
Secret tips and tricks for UI and UX designers.
Friday01/20
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Building an accessible theme picker with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
In this tutorial, we’ll use HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript to add an accessible theme picker component to a website.
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Twitterrific: End of an Era
Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday.
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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
Every year, we pick the 10 technologies that matter the most right now.
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Revisiting Apple’s ill-fated Lisa computer, 40 years on
On its 40th anniversary, we look back at the machine that brought the GUI to personal computers.
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10 Things No One Told Me About Design Systems
This UX designer learned the hard way, but you don’t have to.
