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shannadige.com

Fast is a design decision

Building a site has never been cheaper, but making it fast still costs attention and your user’s resources.

antonsten.com

Where decisions live

Slack for discussion, meetings to resolve, notes for thinking, and a dated decisions log for where things landed.

doc.cc

The fastest gun in UX

Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is stakeholder alignment.

design.interfere.com

Interfere Design System

Components, styles and guidelines for building Interfere products.

gabrielvaldivia.com

Everyone is starting over

The careers that thrive now are the ones willing to become someone new, over and over.

apeatling.com

Your product is not the center of the universe

Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them.

toolcraft.sh

Toolcraft

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

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.

petermerholz.com

Design owns coherence

There exists an actual business problem that the C-suite now acknowledges, but no function has stepped up to address it.

mattrothenberg.com

Pure UI in the Agentic Era

I stopped thinking of UI as event handlers that change the DOM and started thinking of it as a snapshot of data at a point in time.

uxdesign.cc

What the AI era owes you

No one is going to save your career from AI.

giannirosato.com

The case against JPEG XL

Investigating JPEG XL’s place as a Web image codec.

designerfund.com

Inside Anthropic’s design team

How Anthropic’s design team is adapting to a widening velocity gap between eng and design.

constitution.design

The designer’s constitution

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

adrianroselli.com

Decorative images aren’t a thing

Adding an image to a design, email, document, page, app, etc. is done for a reason.

jovo.design

AI invasive design

We can all agree ”AI native“ is a little bit bullshit, but does it have to be so dystopian?

matthenry.fyi

A design system is what it does

A comparison of how two design systems handle the humble text component.

ldlr.design

Field Notes: Design Outcomes

Tactics from the best design teams and individuals working today, with notes on how the work got made.

liao.gg

Agents don’t need memory. They need documentation.

Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.