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smashingmagazine.com

How to design for (and with) Deaf people

Practical UX guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who experience hearing loss.

world.hey.com

Back to the starting line

Programming with AI is still in its infancy, and yet it has already redefined what programming will be about in the immediate future.

youtube.com

Why are people starting to sound like ChatGPT?

Algorithms and AI don't just show us reality — they warp it in ways that benefit platforms built to exploit people for profit.

uxdesign.cc

What I learned from Don Norman

Reflections on the 2025 DNDA Summit and Don Norman’s vision for the next era of design, community, and artificiality.

balajmarius.com

Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

A side project that went viral on Hacker News recently.

alearningaday.blog

Fall in love with your new reality

Sometimes our role in life isn’t to judge something—it is to figure out how to fall in love with it.

maurycyz.com

What an unprocessed photo looks like

Different renditions of the same data.

thegreatestbooks.org

The greatest nonfiction books of all time

An aggregate of 715 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books.

miguelcarranza.es

My role as a founder CTO

If a normal year as a startup founder already feels like four or five regular years, this one felt closer to a full decade.

implications.com

12 outlooks for the future: 2026+

From talent arbitrage and “proof of craft” to hardware moats, ambient listening, homegrown software, and the end of waste.

seangoedecke.com

Nobody knows how large software products work

Sometimes there are zero people at the organization who can answer complex questions about how the product works.

blog.khanacademy.org

Rebuilding graphs for accessibility

How Khan Academy rebuilt its graphing tools to be accessible for all learners—including those using screen readers, keyboards, and assistive tech.

medium.com

The designer’s playbook for AI products

Research, case studies, and experiments to figure out what actually works when it comes to AI.

wordstotime.com

Convert words to time

Quickly convert the number of words in a talk, presentation, or speech to how many minutes it will take to read.

laike9m.com

Avoid mini-frameworks

One pattern comes along again and again, causing endless pain for developers, that is, creating mini-frameworks.

creativeboom.com

Six surprising illustration trends for 2026

Creative Boom asked a selection of artists and their representatives to cast their minds ahead and visualize what’s in store for the next 12 months.

wallpaper.com

Can design make you healthier?

Our built environment can have a direct impact on physical and mental wellbeing. How are architects creating spaces that support health and humanity?

piccalil.li

Programming principles for self taught front-end developers

The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that’s fine. What's missing?

medienbaecker.com

Dialog view transitions

Combining view transitions and the dialog element—possible?

thomwolf.substack.com

What jobs are made of

Judgment, agency, and the limits of AI benchmarks.