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maeda.pm

For most of my career I designed the cockpit

The functional alignment between AI capabilities and human intent.

ui-skills.com

UI skills for design engineers

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

nngroup.com

The four design jobs AI created (so far)

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

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.

arps18.github.io

Beyond the prompt: Claude Code

A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users, including the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, and more.

anthropic.com

When AI builds itself

Anthropic's progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

knightcolumbia.org

AI as social technology

Artificial general intelligence does not hold out the promise of truly post-human bureaucracy.

uxdesign.cc

Designing how designers master AI

Learning to bend it to how you already think—and how that kind of mastery is personal, divergent, and never finished.

darylcecile.net

The speed of prototyping in the age of AI

How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I’m doing to keep my hands dirty.

allenpike.com

Building for voice In, visuals out

Flashes of brilliance, and the tyranny of latency.

poyo.co

Two LLM UI patterns that aren’t chat

Structures that manage context and data retrieval more effectively for complex, non-linear tasks.

jackmaguire.org

AI job grief

AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.

toothcomb.codebox.net

Toothcomb

An AI-powered tool designed for analyzing and fact-checking live speech or text in real-time.

jacquescorbytuech.com

What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications

Over the last five years the on-device model began summarizing, reordering and, on some surfaces, rewriting it.

dropbox.tech

Rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents

How Dropbox is moving towards agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks, and how we’re building platforms to support those workflows.

pscanf.com

The user is visibly frustrated

Agents behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don’t learn, adapt, or take responsibility the way people do.

uxdesign.cc

Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999

That means looking back at the unfinished, handmade web to reinvent how we design for AI—and who we become—now.

robert-glaser.de

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

What changed because we spent those tokens?