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jonkolko.com

A design turn

Why UX must move beyond efficiency to address systemic consequences.

edition.cnn.com

Apollo’s bold, unruly and controversial successor

A visual guide to the audacious moon-landing mission design that put SpaceX and NASA in the hot seat.

typescale.ai

Typescale AI

Generate modular type scales and design tokens instantly.

dropleaf.app

AI Taxonomy

When someone says "AI", ask: "Which category?" Force specificity.

karlkoch.me

On adding homepage delight

A vinyl-style music shelf with spring physics, deflection, hover layers and velocity gating.

hvpandya.com

Expose your design system to LLMs

LLMs drift, fabricate tokens, and start every session from scratch. Here’s how to feed your design system to AI coding agents so they stop guessing.

tylercoderre.com

Design systems checklist

A step-by-step checklist for building design systems.

amplifying.ai

What Claude Code actually chooses

Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.

itsnicethat.com

Who owns this book?

The guide for every designer’s worst nightmare: copyright.

martinfowler.com

Design-first collaboration

Before writing code, dialog with progressive levels of design alignment.

bit.ly

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rosipov.com

Are AI productivity gains fueled by delivery pressure?

How pressure to deliver fast erodes the deep thinking necessary for truly functional products.

caidan.dev

ASCII clouds

Generate ASCII patterns that turn technical limitation into a high-fidelity aesthetic.

anthropic.skilljar.com

Anthropic courses

Anthropic’s new Academy transitions from tool-specific tutorials to a mental model of AI fluency.

robinrendle.com

The song of LinkedIn

How corporate platforms force a specific, hollow performance.

joshbrake.substack.com

The prompt you’re missing

Four categories of task that you should consider before turning to AI.

3dicons.co

Open-source 3D icons

1440+ beautifully crafted open-source 3D icons that you can use completely free and without attribution for personal or commercial project.

thoughtshrapnel.com

Agentic commerce is a catastrophe for brands who rely on friction

Our current neoliberal version of capitalism has built a rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations that agents don't have.

shoe-finder-wine.vercel.app

Shoe Finder

Explore our endless collection of sneakers—a fun little demo.

oreilly.com

How to write a good spec for AI Agents

Simply throwing a massive spec at an AI agent doesn’t work—context window limits and the model’s “attention budget” get in the way.