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maeda.pm

For most of my career I designed the cockpit

The functional alignment between AI capabilities and human intent.

shrtcts.click

Know your shortcuts

An interactive 3D keyboard for learning the keyboard shortcuts of the apps you use every day.

truehenrique.com

Single responsibility, the distorted principle

How the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) is often misinterpreted and how to apply it correctly to avoid overengineering and underengineering.

boneyard.vercel.app

Boneyard: skeleton screens for your UI

Pixel-perfect skeleton loading screens auto-extracted from your real DOM. Zero configuration, zero layout shift.

antmurphy.me

Exploring vs Exploiting

The two modes of product discovery.

buzzusborne.com

Discovery vs Delivery

A personal perspective on AI, product quality and the growing divide between deciding what should exist and efficiently building it.

specification.website

The website specification

A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT license.

uxdesign.cc

Liquid Glass: who gets to decide how an interface looks?

Notes from the 2026 WWDC keynote.

aave.com

Building glass for the web

How we built a cross-browser glass effect for the web, and how it shapes a family of components.

ui-skills.com

UI skills for design engineers

Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides.

slack.design

How I validated design decisions before writing production code

We can finally generate evidence before committing to anything.

fonts.xyz

fonts.xyz

A little internet village for independent type foundries and designers.

elliotjaystocks.com

The old typography is new again

How variable fonts utilize optical sizing axes to automate legibility across varying viewports and scales.

vorpus.github.io

performative-ui

Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.

nngroup.com

The four design jobs AI created (so far)

“AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work.

karlkoch.me

Falling in love with the build

Write-first design prevents falling in love with the wrong thing by prioritizing reasoning over implementation.

css-generators.com

How to center an element horizontally and vertically

100 different ways to center a single element horizontally and vertically inside a container.

github.blog

Building a general-purpose accessibility agent

The experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.

enshittifier.wells.ee

Enshittifier: replace AI with 💩

The web is drowning in AI. We replace it with 💩. In your browser. In your fonts.

addyosmani.com

Loop engineering

You don’t really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you.