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uxdesign.cc

For the Designless

On the value of cultural references, and the cost of losing them at scale.

craft.gustavofior.com

Craft

A collection of design engineering concepts.

seldo.com

We are all Product Engineers now

Where, in fact, is the entire industry of software going in the next decade?

carmenansio.com

Why your numbers look wrong

It’s the figures your font gives you by default, and the better ones it keeps a switch away.

buzzusborne.com

Designing with AI

How a career of building creative teams and design systems led to AI tools that increase speed without lowering the quality bar.

uxdesign.cc

Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

emesstyle.com

WCAG Accessibility Guidelines Explorer

Learn and understand web accessibility standards with interactive demos showing violations vs. solutions.

martinfowler.com

Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code

Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems

liamnugent.me

The most important product decision is what you don’t build

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

yegge.ai

Seats and sunsets

Understanding agent orchestration economics, model capability thresholds, token burn rates, and structural failure modes.

pop.rdi.sh

Dario, please

Debunking AI apocalypse hype and exposing CEO calls for open-source bans as self-serving tactics to protect corporate moats.

brainfunctioncollapse.com

Let’s talk about gradients

A short essay on tools, with a working exhibit.

opusfived.dev

Opusfived

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

rauno.me

Rauno's field notes: 5

How removing pagination arrows in favor of interactive card stacks solves tight UI spatial constraints.

sidebranch.dev

Sidebranch: worktree visual diffing

Review PRs from inside your running app: switch branches from an in-page widget and compare worktrees side by side.

darioamodei.com

We must pace the frontier

Dario Amodei proposes a three-step framework for AI companies to slow capability progress to ensure safety systems.

bencho.dev

Bencho

A library of interactive UI blocks you can explore, tweak, and take straight into your projects.

pangrampangram.com

Optical vs. mathematical alignment

While software can place objects with mathematical precision, our eyes don’t always agree with the result.

maggieappleton.com

Planning with agents

Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents.

earendil.com

If coding is solved, what now?

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.