When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing — Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?
How to center an element horizontally and vertically — 100 different ways to center a single element horizontally and vertically inside a container.
Snooper Share New Song "Recess": Listen — Snooper have been making big moves. In April, vocalist Blair Tramel joined Hayley Williams onstage for a song. A couple weeks ago, the band was announced as openers for Mannequin Pussy and Wednesday’s Bitch Cabal Tour, which rudely is…
Designing in regulated industries — How to ship meaningful, human-centered design when the legal team has as much say as the user
designer i know prints every mockup and tapes them to the wall. says seeing it at actual size kills half the ideas before they waste engineering time. density is a feature.
A designer mapped every typeface used in New York City street signs across 40 years. The silkscreen layers tell you the era.
The problem with self-help gurus — Go to https://www.squarespace.com/mattdavella to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code MATTDAVELLA 🙏 Stuff that I use & love: TeuxDeux (To-Do List App): https://teuxdeux.com/matt Music for videos: https://share.ep
🏡 List of 253 Patterns — Clayton Dorge
Brush Lettering — Modern lettering.
The Iran talks expose the collapse of US diplomacy — In the Trump era, American diplomacy is being led not by impartial diplomats, but by real estate investors.
The trust gap between AI and humans — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/the-trust-gap-between-ai-and-humans-ccea4c503702?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*eXjyflG5o78drymS" wid
The aggressively mediocre fight — The battle we have with AI and something we can do about it.
The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far) — "AI design" is one label but has forked into four different types of work.
Introducing: Timex MK1 For J.Crew — Two classic American brands reunite for a collaboration that's perfect for summer.
Cricut’s $99 craft cutting machine helped me feel creative again — You’ll make things quickly, eventually.
Open Doodles — Free sketchy illustrations.
https://krita.org/en/ — Free, powerful digital painting.
AI just called design’s bluff — We spent a decade hiding behind the interface. Now it’s gone.
How social media fuels useless products — Go to https://www.squarespace.com/mattdavella to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code MATTDAVELLA 🙏 Stuff that I use & love: TeuxDeux (To-Do List App): https://teuxdeux.com/matt Music for videos: https://s
Legibility of Effort · eieio.games — LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?
The brainstorm that couldn’t storm — On the small delay that makes a brainstorm actually storm
Principles in Motion | Figma Blog — When you’re designing motion, you’re designing with time. Understanding the mechanics turns movement into meaning.
Workspaces — A weekly tour of real desk setups from designers, founders, and builders. Every Saturday.
New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling — Smashing Magazine — New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on…
Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface — Smashing Magazine — We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. But great UX is about matching…
Hand-bound notebook.
Assembled By Me: Inside Studio Underd0g's Watch Assembly Experience — Going to see a man about a d0g, and his newly opened UK-based assembly workshop and showroom.
World Cup champions Spain return to royal welcome, parade through Madrid — Tens of thousands of fans greet La Roja as they travel down Madrid's historic avenues to Cibeles Square.
How Diamonds are Made? — Journey of a very old rock.
O silêncio das mulheres | Fabíola Sucasas | TEDxGuarulhosWomen — O silêncio de uma mulher diante da violência nem sempre significa ausência de voz. Por trás dele podem existir medo, dependência, vergonha, ameaças e diferentes formas de violência que nem sempre são percebidas…
500px — Trending photography.
Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure — Where Webtech and LaTeX can't agree
A quiet day in Harare after Zimbabwe’s shutdown call — A heavy security presence and cautious businesses reflected tensions over constitutional changes.
Nutrition, Influence, and the Power of Personal Branding | Dr. Shahed Yassein | TEDxMEU — In a world where health advice is everywhere, knowledge alone is not always enough to create impact. For nutrition professionals, the way expertise is communicated and the trust built…
June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine — Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to welcome the new month with a new collection of
Against design system federation — Avoid the fraught model that will set your design system back.
Cam'ron Settles J. Cole Lawsuit, Ignores Jim Jones Verzuz Challenge — Last year, the Harlem rap great turned sports podcaster Cam’ron sued. J. Cole. Cam had appeared on Cole’s 2024 track “Ready ’24,” and he claimed he’d been denied payment. In March, Cole appeared on Cam’s Talk W
From vibe to specs: reclaiming the design process with SAID framework — How AI-native workflows and Git are replacing static handoffs with a continuous, spec-driven product engine
Trump says US ‘locked and loaded’ while seeking talks with Iran — US President Donald Trump says Washington remains ‘locked and loaded’ while pursuing diplomatic talks with Tehran.
More film options are worth celebrating, even if they aren’t entirely new — A recent film announcement from Flic Film sparked a wave of discourse about what it takes to be a truly new film stock.
LiveAuctioneers — Auctions from around the world.
Enshittifier — replace AI with 💩 — The web is drowning in AI. We replace it with 💩. In your browser. In your fonts.
Nightingale - Home — Nightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society (DVS). We support all aspects of dataviz education, literacy, history and design. Get involved!
Spent three hours hand-lettering a greeting card and somehow made the word 'congratulations' look like a threat — the kerning is just aggressive 😅
How the 1% stole minimalism (then threw it away) — Go to https://www.squarespace.com/mattdavella to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code MATTDAVELLA 🙏 Stuff that I use & love: TeuxDeux (To-Do List App): https://teuxdeux.com/matt Music for videos:
Heroicons — Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.
AI systems are demanding new interaction models. Are designers ready? — The first big shift in how we use software in years is underway.
No crude proposals on disability benefits, minister leading review says — Sir Stephen Timms says personal independence payments (Pip) are not "fit for purpose" and need changing.
Our CSS isn't opinionated enough — Why styling on semantics and roles could make accessibility harder to skip
Train Your Judgement — Settling for good enough is not good enough.
DOC • A sharp tool can still ruin the cut — Design almost never benefits from straight lines. Some ideas only show up when you take the long way around, when you don’t quite know what you’re looking for yet. When there’s room for detours, dead ends, side-quests, and a bit of adve
98% isn't very much — <p>Why a 98% browser support metric still excludes millions of users.</p> <br/><br/>
The Future Worth Building Is Human — AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.
Scale Model Addict - Model Tips, Guides, Tools & Tech, Tutorials, and Community — Connect with modeling enthusiasts on scalemodeladdict.com, the friendliest scale model community! Explore discussions on scale model figures, aircraft, automobiles, dioramas, and more in our vibrant
Women's football shouldn't be penalised by Uefa boycott - Nandy — Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says women's footballers should not be "penalised" by a potential boycott of next month's Under-20 Women's World Cup.
The designer who built a type specimen site that actually lets you see how a font breaks at every size—no fake previews, just raw behavior.
A designer photographed the same room in 50 different homes and arranged them by color — watching how people actually live in spaces is oddly moving.
Nobody wants a blank page. Nobody touches a perfect one. — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/nobody-wants-a-blank-page-nobody-touches-a-perfect-one-48d452a26dae?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img…
Agent behavior — A standard format for describing expected agent behavior for trace review and evaluation. Behavior specs live in .agents/behaviors/ and define what good agent conduct looks like before a reviewer, rubric, scorer, or eval checks for it.
Aseprite — Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool