Why you should care about design context
By thoughtfully organizing your work, you can help your developer counterparts build more efficiently and accurately.
Tuesday09/30
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A new (or rather, old) approach to typography on the web
Typography serves language, not the convenience of a system.
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Agentic commerce protocol
An open standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses. Developed by Stripe + OpenAI.
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How to be a leader when the vibes are off
Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. How to keep morale up?
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Brainstorming terrible ideas in a group
When brainstorming in a group participants are often worried about appearing like idiots, or having bad ideas.
Monday09/29
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The missing link to make your Design Systems shineSponsored
The only design platform with native Design Tokens just got even stronger: Penpot now adds Variants to help you manage your design systems.
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What is “good taste” in software engineering?
Technical taste is different from technical skill.
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elgooG: the long lost Google easter eggs
We restore, unearth, and occasionally create interactive Google Easter eggs.
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Embracing design dialects
How design systems can evolve into living languages, embracing dialects for flexibility and improved user experiences.
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Recreating Google Gemini's animation
Recreating the fancy button using the new CSS shape() function sprinkled with animation to get things pretty close.
Friday09/26
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Your next design might be your last
What Randy Pausch’s last lecture teaches us about designing with urgency and purpose.
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Volume: a 3D OKLCH color palette creator
Build harmonious palettes in a 3D OKLCH space. Explore, create and save harmonious palettes.
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Brutalita Sans
Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.
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Thursday09/25
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Getting more strategic
How to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic. Two different things.
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Designing loops, not paths
How cybernetic loops are helping us turn “human in the loop” from a catchphrase into a design practice.
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Enemies of the people
The members of Brazilian congress who voted to achieve self-immunity; this side project reminds electors not to vote on them in the next elections.
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Wednesday09/24
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Why taste matters more
What rarely gets talked about and showcased in portfolios is the one thing that actually makes a designer memorable: taste.
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Your UX design “Every Day Carry”
5 frameworks that will save your butt…and help you kick some.
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Montblanc digital paper
Montblanc partnered with AKQA to create its first luxury e-writing device, blending heritage craftsmanship with advanced technology.
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The common sense unit of work
What if we were to model a typical software development lifecycle in code?
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What happens when junior design jobs disappear?
The ladder’s gone – what’s replacing it, and who’s being left behind?
Tuesday09/23
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Interception
Getting Puppeteer to intercept requests and respond with content generated via an LLM.
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Generativ design
Interactive generative design experiments, with practical applications for visual identity.
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Figma rendering: powered by WebGPU
Figma has updated their renderer to use WebGPU, unlocking new performance optimization opportunities.
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The psychology of trust in AI
A practical guide for designing more trustworthy and ethical AI systems.
Monday09/22
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Client feedback made easy: Say goodbye to confusing design feedbackSponsored
Pastel makes design feedback effortless. Comment directly on live websites, videos, PDFs and images. Use code SIDEBAR50 for 50% off your first month.
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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope with AI
Stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether.
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Unstructured input in AI apps
Unstructured input in AI-enabled applications means machines, instead of humans, can do the work.
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Wikipedia: signs of AI writing
A list of writing and formatting conventions typical of AI chatbots, with real examples taken from Wikipedia articles and drafts.
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