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From prompt to several wireframe variations <10 secondsSponsored

UX Pilot AI speeds your design process by turning text or sketches into UX/UI. Sync with Figma, upload guidelines, and start 100% for free.

blog.avas.space

Privacy is a value we can lose

We’re taking data protection and privacy rights for granted.

overreacted.io

A social filesystem

Formats over apps.

emilkowal.ski

Building a toast component

How I built Sonner, an opinionated toast library for React used by milions.

dri.es

Software as clay on the wheel

You're shaping the code or text the way a potter shapes clay: push a little, spin the wheel, look, push again.

design.google

Gemini AI Visual Design

How Google designers use gradients, motion, and foundational shapes to build trust and intuition within Gemini.

anthropic.com

Claude’s Constitution

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

veen.com

On coding agents and the future of design

How Claude Code is showing us what apps may become.

carlbarenbrug.com

Friction by design

What gets lost when everything is effortless?

zeldman.com

Cold storage

Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.

terriblesoftware.org

Creating your own opportunities

The best career opportunities don’t necessarily come from your manager. They come from seeing potential in the boring work already on your plate.

uxdesign.cc

Usability heuristics and competition in games

When a game’s UI does not meet these expectations, it negatively affects the entire experience. Сompetition drives progress (or burnout).

bit.ly

Widgetsmith is hiring a Senior DesignerSponsored

Help us create new widget designs, themes, and aesthetic options for our millions of users. You’ll help them make their phone their own.

jakub.kr

Using AI as a Design Engineer

Design engineers, a role that's all about craft, thoughtfulness and creativity, should be skeptical of AI. But here's the other side.

staticmade.com

Humanity as differentiator

NRF 2026 wasn’t billed as a “retail & AI” conference, but that’s exactly what it was.

uxdesign.cc

Designers as agent orchestrators

Designers hold the best qualities to get refine AI outputs that’s needed for building successful products.

detail.design

Detail

A curated study of the tiny design decisions that make products feel right.

boagworld.com

What I’m seeing for UX as we move into 2026

Not predictions. Just what I’m noticing among the UX professionals I work with right now.

spyglass.org

Hello, computer

With AI and an appetite for new hardware, vocal computing seems primed to take off. For real this time.

hvpandya.com

The invisible work

The coordination work that holds projects together disappears the moment it works.