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tomtunguz.com

How AI might reverse web design

During the last 20 years, we’ve focused on improving websites for humans with complex design. But AI thrives on simplicity: pure text.

type.today

Type manual: units of measurement

Kilometers per hour, kilowatt-hours, degrees, square miles, liquid ounces (and much more).

blog.damato.design

Your first component

When building a component library, what component do you build first and why is it always button?

epicweb.dev

Testing accessibility with screen readers

Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn’t enough.

grantslatton.com

Nobody cares

The world is full of stuff that could be excellent with just 1% more effort. But people don't care.

jonyablonski.com

User research myths

Common myths about user research that often prevent companies from implementing this valuable practice.

bradfrost.com

The UX of login codes

If your product texts/emails login codes, the experience better be amazing.

yannglt.com

A journey of craft built on trust, confidence, and focus

Lessons I learned during my first year at Linear about design, collaboration, and growth.

pjonori.blog

Consistency means nothing

The word consistency is a loaded term in my work. If you ask five people what consistency is, you’ll get ten different answers.

chrbutler.com

The geography of interface

We navigate digital spaces as if they were physical ones. We “visit” websites, “go to” pages, get “lost” in apps, and find our way “back”.

matduggan.com

Stop trying to schedule a call with me

One of the biggest hurdles for me when trying out a new service or product is the inevitable harassment that follows. The harassment by SaaS.

frontendmasters.com

New things you should know about HTML in 2025

Accordion details, toggle switches, styleable selects, responsive video, and more.

jarango.com

Prescriptive and descriptive information architectures

Two approaches to language in websites and apps and how they influence understandability and findability.

figma.com

Six memos for the future of digital creation

Figma asked devs, designers, analysts, writers, PMs, card-carrying generalists to double click on some of their ideas. Here’s what they said.

robinrendle.com

Design artifacts

Less dance, more design.

surfingcomplexity.blog

Whither dashboard design?

The sorry state of dashboards It’s true: the dashboards we use today for doing operational diagnostic work are… let’s say suboptimal.

minds.md

Cognitive load is what matters

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let’s focus on something more fundamental.

thejollyteapot.com

Are we at peak shittiness?

Finally an article for which I had to right-click on the word enshittification and click “learn spelling.”

lea.verou.me

Context chips in survey design: “Okay, but how does it feel?”

How a weird little UI to collect sentiment alongside survey responses defied constraints and triumphed over skepticism through usability testing.

shkspr.mobi

Most people don’t care about quality

If you're a website designer, you're always noticing "jank" on other sites.