AI-created document fatigue: how I designed my way out of it — AI promised us a leisure revolution but delivered us more documents to consume. I designed a voice-first app to move my work away from the…
Karl Koch | On layout choreography — Layout animation keeps spatial memory intact when lists reorder, panels expand, and items enter or leave. FLIP turns layout jumps into transform-based motion.
Haptics design and implementation - Microsoft Design — Guidance for adding haptic feedback to improve clarity, support inclusion, and create more intuitive experiences.
A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine — Let’s welcome May with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
DaVinci Resolve – What’s New | Blackmagic Design — Professional video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in a single application. Free and paid versions for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI — Smashing Magazine — Every extra second of friction has a measurable business cost. Carrie Webster shares ten data-backed UX facts that link user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth.

Excalidraw libraries are the lowest-friction way to start a system. https://excalidraw.com
How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart — When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.
Learning to code is still worthwhile — <p>Code is possibly the best medium to learn mathematics, and meta-skills for learning in general.</p> <br/><br/>
Beyond code generation: rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents — How Dropbox is moving from AI tools that assist engineers to agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks, and how we’re building platforms to support those workflows.
Wait, who made this? — The rise of creative provenance
🏡 List of 253 Patterns — Clayton Dorge
Let this be your last Short for the day #TEDTalk — Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that…
From frictionless to meaningful — Inviting friction into design and life
Designers are sharpening knives for the wrong fight — AI made building free. So why is the whole conversation still about how to build?
Amazon is trying to crush class-action suits before they get started — An update to its terms and conditions requires all disputes be resolved through arbitration.
7 things that Vibe Design can’t replicate — <p>Vibe design with intention, eyes open.</p> <br/><br/>
pandoc-templates.org — Pandoc templates for PDF, LaTeX, HTML and Word. Easily convert documents with customizable templates for reports, articles, and more.
Security Envelope Pattern collection | S.E.C.R.E.T. — Explore the Security Envelope Pattern collection — S.E.C.R.E.T. is dedicated to classifying & preserving security envelope patterns.
Self-Fulfilling Projects — The projects that defy clarity and specificity.
GitHub - Diolinux/PhotoGIMP: A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users — A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users. Contribute to Diolinux/PhotoGIMP development by creating an account on GitHub.
Renovate with Figma (and AI) — Can your interior project benefit from using Figma and a touch of AI? Of course it can!
Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software — A curated collection of the best open source alternatives to everyday SaaS products. Save money with reliable tools hand-picked for you.
Exploring comprehensive data color scheme design with GenAI — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/exploring-comprehensive-data-color-scheme-design-with-genai-099d543df4ba?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img…
Heroicons — Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? — A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.
Ilograph Interactive Diagrams — Create interactive, multi-perspective diagrams with Ilograph
Using CSS corner-shape For Folded Corners | CSS-Tricks — I came across Kitty Giraudel’s folded corners technique. I’ve been on a bit of a corner-shape kick lately, so I figured that corner-shape could be used to create folded corners as well.
shadcn/ui isn't a library — it's a recipe book. That's why it spreads. https://ui.shadcn.com
Trump Says Yen Intervention Is Signal of Friendship With Japan — President Donald Trump said the US joined a currency-market intervention that lifted the yen last week as a sign of friendship with Japan and to help the global economy.
Hacker News Flipboard · the top 20, on split-flaps — The top 20 stories on Hacker News, rendered on a split-flap departures board. Rank, points and headline on real mechanical flaps, refreshed by a scheduled cloud function. A remix of the Quickish flipboard.
Utils | CSS-native parallax effect — A parallax effect built entirely in CSS with scroll-driven animations, no scroll listeners required.
Please stop using these 7 deprecated Linux commands — Get with the program!
World Cup Map 2026 — An interactive 3D globe showing every match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup — browse by date, group, team, or city.
HoverAir's Versa is a pocket gimbal camera and drone mashup — HoverAir has unveiled Versa, an interesting product that marries a gimbal camera and drone.
Dot Matrix — Dot Matrix is a React component library of dot matrix loaders—expressive loading primitives you install via the shadcn registry and own as local code.
The 5 Best Songs Of The Week — Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which…
A Concrete Definition of “Product Sense” (and How to Build It) — Product sense means predicting which product decisions will succeed based on patterns learned through experimentation — and knowing when those patterns apply.
Never mind the prompts, here’s the thinking — I spent a year rebuilding my studio’s entire design process around AI. It didn’t make us faster, and that’s exactly why it worked. It also…
The aggressively mediocre fight — The battle we have with AI and something we can do about it.
Two Shell Share New Song "Closer To The Sound": Listen — Two Shell use AI. They admitted it. For a while, there have been rumors about the pranksterish London dance duo and their reliance on generative AI to make so much music, and they confirmed it earlier this summer. In a…
Showreel.design - Discover amazing showreels — Discover amazing motion design and animation work from talented creators worldwide.
What Figma made visible — And whether the next generation of practitioners will get the same thing.
GitHub - shumaiOne/shumai: Open-source platform for all your creative work — Open-source platform for all your creative work. Contribute to shumaiOne/shumai development by creating an account on GitHub.
The seams are where the system lives — Partitioning a system into clean modules doesn’t remove complexity — it relocates it to the seams. Cities learned this by zoning. Software…
There is(Ǝ) – Such that (∋) — Let me tell you about a language. But if you wish to go play instead go here. It's going to get a little abstract below. There is a Canvas to Compose Upon The canvas is a square with the largest circle that has a radius of ρ. There are
How the A321XLR is redefining single-aisle comfort for passengers — Discover how the A321XLR brings widebody comfort and design to a more fuel efficient single-aisle aircraft.
The Mystery of Dark Oxygen — Scientists once thought that life-sustaining oxygen existed only near Earth’s surface. Then they detected it deep underground.
The 4 predators sabotaging your product team — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/the-4-predators-sabotaging-your-product-team-3dce31215ff4?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img…
We used to log off — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/we-used-to-log-off-36771c18926b?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*bP0Fa6Dq7tG5bhau" width="6000"></a></p><p class="medium
Do we still need build tools? — Do we still need Rspack, SWC, PostCSS, Vite, Parcel, Webpack, Turbopack, esbuild, Rollup, Rolldown, Babel, Autoprefixer, esbuild and Lightning CSS in 2026?
Newcastle change shirts during first half of friendly — Newcastle United change shirts in the first half of their pre-season friendly against Bayer Leverkusen.
State of AI in Design Systems · July 2026 — A field study of how 20 open-source design systems and 6 platforms make themselves readable to AI agents.
Workspaces — A weekly tour of real desk setups from designers, founders, and builders. Every Saturday.
AI made everyone a creator, not a designer — Why design taste became the real constraint in the AI era.
What critical thinking means for senior designers (and how to apply it) — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/what-critical-thinking-means-for-senior-designers-and-how-to-apply-it-7423762b2391?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img
A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It’s Real. - Yanko Design — Back in 1985, an electrical engineer at Polaroid named Bill Freeman had an idea for a three-sided zipper. Not a novelty item, not a quirky art piece, but a genuinely functional fastener capable of…
Introducing: The Ming 37.06 Royal Selangor Limited Edition — An 88-piece run highlights Malaysian craftsmanship, all the way from design to assembly.
Consistency, But in Excellence Not Appearance — Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Alibaba & Macy's Rise, Snap Shares Tumble | Stock Movers — On this episode of Stock Movers: - Shares of Alibaba (BABA) rise after disclosing a deal to sell its gaming arm and touting claims of more than 3 billion downloads for its open AI model. - Shares of DR Horton (DHI)…