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Vote in Readymag Websites of the Year 2026Sponsored

The award spotlights inventive projects made with Readymag, a design tool for creating outstanding websites. Explore the shortlist and vote.

buzzusborne.com

Pick three

Exploring the hidden cost of producing good, fast and cheap creative work.

noemamag.com

Now entering: The era of bleh

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

justinjay.wang

Design as a garden

A different way to think about creative work.

toolcraft.sh

Toolcraft

An open-source starter kit and UI library for building custom design apps with AI.

contralabs.com

Creative Intelligence Report

We surveyed 150k+ working creatives to explore how AI is changing creative work.

nytimes.com

In defense of the detour

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

hipuku.dev

The default is not a design decision

How the design industry built the infrastructure of sameness, and called it best practice.

youtube.com

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al

As AI makes it easier to build, how do we keep products from becoming generic “zombie UI”?

buzzusborne.com

AI operating principles

Five principles for protecting a strong creative practice as AI increases what designers can do.

itsnicethat.com

Step inside Teddy Blanks’ film title design process

Teddy Blanks, the Chips co-founder behind the title sequences for Barbie, Weapons and Robert Eggers’ upcoming Werwulf, unpacked.

uxdesign.cc

Bottle your judgment and make it outlive you

The most valuable thing you own dies with you, unless you get it out of your head. Let a machine and the person next to you finally use it.

notashelf.dev

Taste is all that's left

How automated output turns taste into the primary filter for software and product design.

the-idea-machine.com

The idea machine

Pull the lever to generate a random project or app idea—a surprise mashup of a life space, a product format, and a twist.

addyosmani.com

Earning taste and judgment

Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you’re junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose.

itsnicethat.com

People will always need to trust the human behind any decision-making

When your manager is paying more attention to AI than your creative role, what can you do?

uxdesign.cc

Taste cannot be delegated

The death of design by committee in the age of AI.

herbertlui.net

Creative focus

This year is Apple’s 50th year in business. Decades ago, it lost creative focus, and spread itself too thin.

dev.karltryggvason.com

You can’t unit test for taste

Why automated compliance fails to yield aesthetic coherence, proving subjective judgment remains a hard requirement.

doc.cc

A sharp tool can still ruin the cut

Some ideas only show up when you take the long way around, when you don’t quite know what you’re looking for yet.