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Sports Photographer Has Instagram Account Wrongfully Banned by Meta Over ‘Sexualization of Children’ — 'It can happen to anybody.'

Past form, future use — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/past-form-future-use-05b112952374?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/1*pRFF2RJWqrxzFD3DJjFnmw.png" width="5774"></a></p><

Someone mapped every typeface decision in a single book cover—why the serif sits where it does, what the margin width says. The attention to the stuff you don't notice is sharp.

Someone mapped every typeface decision in a single book cover—why the serif sits where it does, what the margin width says. The attention to the stuff you don't notice is sharp.

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!

The most important part of building your taste is to hand it off — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/the-most-important-part-of-building-your-taste-is-to-hand-it-off-be91aeac65d9?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https:

LiveAuctioneers — Auctions from around the world.

Vocabulary — A glossary of common animation patterns, so you know what to ask for.

Spent three hours hand-lettering a greeting card and somehow made the word 'congratulations' look like a threat — the kerning is just aggressive 😅

Spent three hours hand-lettering a greeting card and somehow made the word 'congratulations' look like a threat — the kerning is just aggressive 😅

https://krita.org/en/ — Free, powerful digital painting.

AI personality is a design problem — Right now it’s an accidental byproduct of AI alignment. It could be an interface we build deliberately.

1970s denim jacket.

1970s denim jacket.

Craft still matters, but it’s about outcomes — AI moved craft from production to judgment; the same tools can help you protect it, if you describe your standards and keep humans…

UI Skills for Design Engineers | Curated Skill Directory — Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides with copy-ready install commands.

From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction — Smashing Magazine — The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand…

mymind is the extension for your mind. — A private place to save your most precious notes, images, quotes and highlights. Enhanced with AI to help you remember without wasting time on categorizing & organizing.

mymind is the extension for your mind. — A private place to save your most precious notes, images, quotes and highlights. Enhanced with AI to help you remember without wasting time on categorizing & organizing.

Aseprite — Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool

Aseprite — Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool

Python Graph Gallery — The Python Graph Gallery displays hundreds of charts made with Python, always with explanation and reproduciible code

Python Graph Gallery — The Python Graph Gallery displays hundreds of charts made with Python, always with explanation and reproduciible code

Marcotti's Mini World Cup Musings: Messi is supernatural; U.S. gets a reality check — After 28 days of games, Wednesday is the first rest day of the 2026 World Cup: the perfect opportunity to reflect on four weeks of fabulous football.

The duality of language models in the browser — I have complex feelings about Generative AI but one area I find myself weirdly bullish on is small language models (SLMs) in the browser which are available in Chrome and Edge behind an experimental flag.

Introducing: Louis Vuitton Unity Time Object — To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Louis Vuitton for UNICEF partnership, they are auctioning a unique objet d'art.

Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure — Where Webtech and LaTeX can't agree

Home &middot; Kenney — Free game art for everyone.

Home &middot; Kenney — Free game art for everyone.

One of the Most Popular Travel Credit Cards Just Added New Perks—Without Raising Its Annual Fee — With a new $100 annual hotel credit, complimentary travel insurance, and generous rewards, the Chase Sapphire Preferred just got even better.

Rebrickable | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO — Rebrickable - Build with LEGO

Rebrickable | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO — Rebrickable - Build with LEGO

One To Watch: The Cartier Prize For Watchmaking Talents Of Tomorrow — Cartier gives us a glimpse of the process for the 28th edition of its Prize for Watchmakers of Tomorrow with a jury that includes Kari Voutilainen.

No need to panic for England - but this was a reality check — England's drab goalless draw with Ghana is no cause to panic - but it does serve as a reality check, writes Phil McNulty.

FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts — FontStruct. Build, Share, Download Fonts

What we lost in the AI chat stream — <p>Most of the chat is iteration, not insight. The real cost is the thinking we stop doing.</p> <br/><br/>

Woodworking for engineers — Ingenious woodworking projects.

A Practical Guide To Design Principles — Smashing Magazine — Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.

Origami That — Would you like to learn some great origami? Beautiful designs. Easy to follow diagrams.

Origami That — Would you like to learn some great origami? Beautiful designs. Easy to follow diagrams.

You don’t design the interface anymore. You design the deciding. — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/you-dont-design-the-interface-anymore-you-design-the-deciding-835c01982ead?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img…

How designers need to change for an AI-powered world — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/how-designers-need-to-change-for-an-ai-powered-world-b51c3c195954?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img…

iheartmyart — Showcasing inspiring art, fashion, design and architecture from exceptional artists and designers....

iheartmyart — Showcasing inspiring art, fashion, design and architecture from exceptional artists and designers....

The most life-changing advice I ever got — Go to http://squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, go to http://squarespace.com/mattdavella to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Stuff that I use & love: TeuxDeux (To-Do List App): htt

Reddit - Please wait for verification — Desktop backgrounds.

The Architecture of Focus — Most companies default to a schedule designed for managers that systematically destroys the cognitive capacity for the work they actually need. The fix is not to try harder. It is to redesign the environment, as exceptional thinkers have always done.

Creative Boom — Inspiration

Creative Boom — Inspiration

YouTube is gonna auto-tag AI, and it makes me angry — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/youtube-is-gonna-auto-tag-ai-and-it-makes-me-angry-598bff827a68?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/m

This $30 bundle gives your Mac 27 new superpowers — Give your Mac a major productivity boost with this 27 app bundle.

What Figma made visible — And whether the next generation of practitioners will get the same thing.

Transparent Textures — Free texture overlays.

The rhetorical mask of innovation — How a single word lets us claim progress before we prove it

Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them? — Meta touts safety features – but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious

Workspaces — A weekly tour of real desk setups from designers, founders, and builders. Every Saturday.

Understanding is the new bottleneck — Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.

Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact — “We're in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or two."

Karl Koch | Falling in love with the build — Write-first design prevents falling in love with the wrong thing by prioritizing reasoning over implementation.

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