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medium.com

AI is making development faster. But where did the work go?

When AI makes one part of product development faster, what happens to the rest of the system?

the-brandidentity.com

A geometric typeface made for the age of AI

The Neurath X Collection began with a question: what might geometric typography look like in the age of AI?

normaltools.com

Normal Tools

Small, useful online tools that work directly in your browser.

rebeccawilliams.info

Unwinding the great tech power grab

How tech has atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it.

judgmentkit.ai

JudgmentKit

Stop AI from building the wrong interface. Help AI agents understand the user’s work, choose the right interface, and repair what does not fit.

uxdesign.cc

The call for an agentic standard

We need to stop shipping the same form four different times.

soverybright.com

Make your logo brighter than white

Upload a logo, choose what glows, download an HDR JPEG. Free — nothing is stored.

commandline.microsoft.com

Designing product simplicity for the agentic AI era

Shared design components aren’t enough to ensure a seamless product experience. Can designers create consistency by embracing simplicity?

mesurer.dev

Mesurer

Inspect, annotate, and give feedback on any live interface. Share feedback with your agents and your team.

stripeeconomics.com

AI and the city

More businesses are forming outside major metros, but big cities still matter for frontier tech.

christophhellmuth.com

How AI-ready is your design system?

Every design system team is having the same conversation right now, and nobody can back it with numbers.

ngrok.com

Compression is prediction

Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next.

people.kernel.org

Creepy crawlies

Bots consume 20% of CPU capacity by rendering HTML commits instead of cloning repos.

creativeboom.com

Gabriel Diogo on football, memory, and childhood

From terrace flags to the humble bar glass, the illustrator draws the everyday life of Brazil he grew up in—and now Nike has come calling.

pipshea.net

The critical design engineering manifesto

A remix of the 2011 Critical Engineering Manifesto for Design Engineers — guardrails for inhabiting the space between software design and eng.

seangoedecke.com

You have to beat the models at something

You’re not doing yourself any favors by pretending that LLMs can’t actually write code and it’s all just a scam.

davesresearch.com

A good move is enabling

Don’t build into dead ends: anticipate what happens next.

wayofmarkdown.com

Markdown database pattern

Treat a folder of markdown files as records in a database—the pattern behind Obsidian Bases, Notion-style workflows without lock-in, and more.

clarity.addy.ie

Clarity: AI writing skill and editor

An open-source writing skill for AI agents and a private browser editor for clearer, more human prose without invented facts or flattened voice.

nngroup.com

The custodial era of UX: Cleaning up after AI

AI lets teams build faster than UX can evaluate. UX can adapt by building shared judgment, accelerating evaluation, and guiding AI-generated designs.