Japan’s economy slows, missing growth forecasts — GDP rises 0.3 percent in the second quarter as consumption and capital spending sag.
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!
Low cortisol solution to big problems — The strange details we only notice when we slow down.
You’re missing the point; this is your real value in tech companies — It’s not about a tool or a model, but about your expertise and the criteria that will ultimately enable you to generate profound changes…
How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma — 4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds.
What Sky buying ITV could mean for your favourite shows — An announcement is expected imminently on Sky buying ITV's TV and streaming channels.
The Orchestration Tax is You — Starting more agents is easy now. However, more agents running doesn't mean more of you available - your cognitive bandwidth doesn't parallelize. All the jud...
Product Design Psychology by Wouter de Bres — Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.
Who made this, Designing excuses, DesignOps in the age of AI — Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
AI as Social Technology — <p>Artificial general intelligence does not hold out the promise of truly post-human bureaucracy.</p> <br/><br/>

Vercel's geist font has quietly become the new "developer" sans-serif. https://vercel.com/font
Carbon (IBM) is a master class in cross-platform token systems. https://carbondesignsystem.com
Ark UI — unstyled, framework-agnostic component primitives with accessibility baked in. The cross-framework answer to Radix. https://ark-ui.com
How to write a DESIGN.md file Claude can actually use — Your DESIGN.md should tell a story of your product
UI/UX Design Inspiration & User Flows from Top Apps — Page Flows — Explore 100,000+ recorded user flows, app screens, and UI patterns from Airbnb, Uber, Netflix & more. Save hours on UX research with Page Flows.
The parts of your system you never wrote down — Reopening every decision you left implicit, and settling it without you
ColorSym • Symbols That Speak Color — A free, open-source way to identify color when color alone isn't enough. Memorable symbols for base and combined colors in games, apps, print, and signage.
Stolen Buttons — Every website I visit, I steal a button from it. Check out my stash!
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
China Pledge on US Soybeans Tested as Private Crushers Hold Back — China’s drive to buy large volumes of US soybeans — a commitment under last year’s trade truce — risks being complicated by a lack of participation from the country’s private traders.