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andybudd.com

Should designers be paid the same as engineers?

People aren’t remunerated based on knowledge or effort, but on how much value they generate, protect, or multiply—plus accountability.

storyterra.com

StoryTerra

Explore stories by location and time.

theguardian.com

Sir Terry Farrell’s best buildings, in pictures

Sir Terry Farrell, the UK’s leading architect-planner and postmodernist, has died aged 87.

thescaleoflife.com

The scale of life

Experience the magnitude of the industrial age, nature, and everyday life firsthand.

equalentry.com

Accessible content for people with limited English proficiency

Unclear language and poor design can turn everyday tasks into stressful barriers, eroding independence and dignity.

pangrampangram.com

How to create a typographic hierarchy

Whether you’re designing a website, brand, or publication, strong hierarchy ensures clarity; poor hierarchy leads to confusion.

hacker-laws.com

Hacker laws

Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers might find useful.

academy.openai.com

ChatGPT for product

A prompt pack covering competitive research, strategy, UX design, content creation, and data analysis.

center.design

Case study: Swimclub

When it comes to fertility, men’s health is half of the equation. However, fertility is perceived to be predominantly a woman’s issue.

antropia.studio

To AI or not to AI

A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring both the promise and frustrations of LLM-based development workflows.

figma.com

Why you should care about design context

By thoughtfully organizing your work, you can help your developer counterparts build more efficiently and accurately.

daybreak.studio

A new (or rather, old) approach to typography on the web

Typography serves language, not the convenience of a system.

agenticcommerce.dev

Agentic commerce protocol

An open standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses. Developed by Stripe + OpenAI.

chaoticgood.management

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?

rosipov.com

Brainstorming terrible ideas in a group

When brainstorming in a group participants are often worried about appearing like idiots, or having bad ideas.

bit.ly

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.

seangoedecke.com

What is “good taste” in software engineering?

Technical taste is different from technical skill.

elgoog.im

elgooG: the long lost Google easter eggs

We restore, unearth, and occasionally create interactive Google Easter eggs.

alistapart.com

Embracing design dialects

How design systems can evolve into living languages, embracing dialects for flexibility and improved user experiences.

css-tricks.com

Recreating Google Gemini's animation

Recreating the fancy button using the new CSS shape() function sprinkled with animation to get things pretty close.