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hvpandya.com

The hard things about design

An honest accounting of what the craft costs, and why it costs more than the crafts sitting right next to it.

whynothugo.nl

98% isn’t very much

Why a 98% browser support metric still excludes millions of users.

nngroup.com

Stop reporting UX activity and report business outcomes

UX teams should report business outcomes to show impact on revenue, cost, risk, speed, retention, and to secure resources.

uxdesign.cc

Never mind the prompts, here’s the thinking

A year rebuilding my studio’s entire design process around AI. It didn’t make us faster, and that’s exactly why it worked.

bencallahan.com

What is product craft in the age of AI and design systems?

A design system can only raise the quality floor.

marcelochaman.ca

Design engineering

What design engineering is, how it’s changed, and where it’s going.

mandy.dev

Design systems are no longer optional

Codebases deteriorate quickly when automated agents generate user interfaces without canonical constraints.

w.pitula.me

Fintech Engineering Handbook

Patterns for building software that handles money.

karlkoch.me

On the semantic web

Native elements carry behaviour, accessibility, form semantics, keyboard support, and platform adaptation before styling begins.

designnotes.blog.gov.uk

Designing services for people who’ve lost trust online

How to design to rebuild trust in using public services for people who have been affected by scams.

uxdesign.cc

39 principles for designing human-AI interaction

An applied framework for designing AI interfaces that support appropriate reliance, user control, transparency, and responsible autonomy.

uxdesign.cc

The organizational cost of low taste

When taste is weak, everything survives long enough to demand justification, and the organization slowly confuses activity with progress.

alistapart.com

Designed for a dead language

Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin.

uxdesign.cc

Figma just made your design system debt everyone’s problem

For years, design system work lost the roadmap fight quietly. Config 2026 made the losing loud. That changes who has to care.

dbreunig.com

The problem is prompt debt

Plain-English prompts make prototyping effortless but specify system behavior poorly. The technical debt builds slowly until apps stall.

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.

renderghost.leaflet.pub

Splitting atoms & splitting hairs

Atomic design got us from thinking about pages to thinking about components, but we don’t need to keep carrying the periodic table around.

bram.us

Do websites need to function exactly the same on every platform?

We seem to be stuck on a new hurdle: the idea that websites need to function the same everywhere.

blog.murphytrueman.com

Your design system has a new author

Authored change has outpaced the review model, and that breaks more than it looks.

gerireid.com

Your documentation is still in your Mum’s filing cabinet

It’s kind of wild that we’re still organising knowledge like it’s sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don’t think in folders.