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agustinbarrientos.com

Building interfaces that understand what we want to do

Chrome is building a Decisions API that runs a decision model on your computer, for free and privately.

hipuku.dev

Where the disabled button got its rule

What Apple’s 1980 rules said about greyed-out commands.

mattstromawn.com

Design is a search problem

Most of what we call ‘design’ is groping around a dark room looking for a black cat.

haydenbleasel.com

By taking away

Software used to be made like a painting, one layer at a time. With agents, it’s closer to sculpture, and the hard part is seeing what to keep.

karolinaszczur.com

There’s no better name for design systems

How to talk about design systems across functions.

davesresearch.com

What product strategy does

On maintaining and rebuilding critical relationships.

bit.ly

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.

uxdesign.cc

Otherwise you’re just a machine

AI is getting better at design. Designers should too.

seanvoisen.com

What does design system AI readiness mean, anyway?

Maybe it’s less about machine-legible artifacts and more about where humans stay in the loop.

uxdesign.cc

Everyone is building AI agents. Who’s designing the stop button?

Here’s why the hardest design decisions happen where that autonomy ends.

lesswrong.com

Great but painful

If you want to build a product that people will use, find something that people already do and make it less painful.

mean.app

Mean

Visual handoff for humans and agents. Freeze or record your screen, annotate with gestures, and hand the finished session to a human or AI.

iamnoman.com

Designing a skill

Skills are becoming the apps of the agentic era. What you learn shipping quality software still applies to them.

baselinedesign.com

The window with no buttons

Why the terminal feels so unfamiliar to designers, and how to read it anyway.

chrbutler.com

There will always be someone faster, cheaper, and better

AI has designers questioning everything. But the three things we think we’re chosen for haven’t changed at all.

github.com

Desigma

Free Figma alternative made on Rust. An independent, local-first, open-source design tool.

doc.cc

Who owns the doubt?

Nobody arrives at their first design job doubting their first idea; they defend it, usually too loudly.

alfy.blog

A select should tell you something

Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.

atifaz.am

The software factory forgot about design

Code is cheap now. What's still expensive is deciding what to build and how it should feel. I think that's the part the factory is missing.

karlkoch.me

On giving people an undo button in AI products

Designing AI edits people can inspect, accept and recover from without losing the work they wanted to keep.