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maxschmitt.me

A simple guide to calm UI

A few basic rules to keep in mind to make simple UIs feel a lot better.

uxdesign.cc

Design in the material you ship

Designers should understand code the way an architect understands stone: what it can do, not how to cut it. AI now does the cutting.

karrisaarinen.com

Someone behind the software

I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.

carmenansio.com

A flame needs three sine waves

How a few pencil sketches turned into a matchstick you can strike, and why the flicker needed three sine waves instead of one.

constitution.design

The designer’s constitution

A model for rethinking what makes a designer in the age of AI.

nytimes.com

In defense of the detour

On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.

uxdesign.cc

How to de-slopify your designs

Tips for anyone who vibecodes.

libraries.dev

Agent skill: Libraries.dev

Teach your coding agent Border beam, Thinking orbs, Gooey, Voice, Bot avatars, Liquid metal and Image.

craft.gustavofior.com

Craft

A collection of design engineering concepts.

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.

pangrampangram.com

Optical vs. mathematical alignment

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

worseonpurpose.com

Why products get worse

Where quality lives, and how companies drain it from your products without a metric moving.

design.lightspark.com

Limit the number of details

Every detail asks for attention. Limiting how many we add is what gives us room to make the ones that remain better.

ilyabirman.net

Vibe coding and quality

Just last year, vibe coding seemed like a toy. Today I think that high quality is achievable only through vibe coding

var0.xyz

Perfection is not over-engineering

The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They’re not the same.

blog.maximeheckel.com

Shading motion

Detecting, extracting, and stylizing motion with WebGPU and TSL, covering motion masking, blob tracking, optical flow, and velocity-based motion blur.

superposition.jem.computer

Design is how it tastes

If our design specs only tell models what the interface is made of, they have already forgotten what the interface is for

microsoft.design

What happens when you can’t hide behind craft

In an era where AI has made execution nearly free, the designer’s true value no longer lies in craft alone but in having a genuine point of view.

figma.com

Code, craft, and the making of nested folders

From treating code as a proposal to turning handoffs into conversations, here’s how we shaped a new way of working to ship nested folders.

hvpandya.com

The hard things about design

An honest accounting of what the craft costs, and why it costs more than the crafts sitting right next to it.