The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI — Smashing Magazine — As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what…
A senior engineer traced why their database queries were slow and found the answer buried in a comment from 2015 that nobody read. The fix was one line.
How to make your design system agent-ready — <p>If you don’t want your AI agent to choke on your design.md, stop putting your entire design system into one file.</p> <br/><br/>
The Beading Gem — Jewelry making techniques.
Reading nook, north light.
A Koi Pond Mosaic Made From 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste — A Koi Pond Mosaic Made From 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste: Every 3D printer owner ends up with quite a pile of plastic waste: failed prints, stringy purge, and the plastic purge tower left behind after a multicolor…
2,500+ Tool Plans. 13 Years Strong. 30-Day Guarantee. — Forget overpriced tools. Build your own with expert plans and real-world support.
Browse Fonts - Google Fonts — Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
The Most Affordable Cut of Chicken Makes the Most Delicious Chinese Dinner — These steamed chicken legs marinated with sand ginger, shallots, and garlic are so tender and delicious. The savory juices alone are worth making rice for.
Why don’t we download airport apps? — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/why-dont-we-download-airport-apps-095c7be5a384?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*X2yZwPo3nWRFtGrx"…
What it really feels like to be a digital accessibility advocate — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/what-it-really-feels-like-to-be-a-digital-accessibility-advocate-07afc7e1d16f?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https:
Poline — Esoteric Color Palette Generation Library — poline is lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript. It draws lines between anchors over polar coordinates to generate pleasing color palettes.
Building a Wall Lamp From Scratch | MB's Blog
Home · Kenney — Free game art for everyone.
Color Palette App | BairesDev — The definite color palette editing and remapping tool.
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…
How to write a DESIGN.md file Claude can actually use — Your DESIGN.md should tell a story of your product
Echo Chamber: A healthy public square — Wide tolerance, and nobody walls anyone out — the room stays in one conversation.
Hand-bound notebook.
Chemicals Maker Ashland Pushed to Sell by Activist Cruiser — Cruiser Capital Advisors is pushing Ashland Inc. to sell itself, increasing the pressure on the specialty chemicals company after another activist investor called for a sale earlier this month.
Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature — Smashing Magazine — Teams can generate UI faster than ever, but they still have to guarantee that what they ship is usable, secure, and maintainable. Accessibility as an operational capability rather than a…
Tella might be the simplest "loom-killer" with actual production polish. https://www.tella.tv
The Making of Cursor's Icons — A year of drawing, testing, and shipping a complete icon system for the world's favourite coding agent.
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. — From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we̵…
Visual Vocabulary — How to pick a chart.
7 Lake George Airbnbs for a Memorable Stay in the Adirondacks — Enjoy long swims, hiking trails, and plenty of great amenities at these lakefront stays.
Creative Boom — Inspiration
RAWGraphs 2.0 — Web site created using create-react-app
Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies — On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention
Hostile Volume: Begin the Suffering — A volume setting experience designed for maximum frustration. Can you beat the audit?
You'd expect homeowners to save their stuff. Federal policy pays them to leave it — NPR dug into the upside-down world of FEMA flood insurance in coastal areas, and found many homeowners have no financial choice but to let their homes collapse.
Why systems thinking is becoming the most important UX skill — As apps become more context-aware, the designer’s job is shifting from shaping screens to shaping systems.
I tried to optimize my life. It made it worse. — 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. Want to learn how to make better videos and grow
AI personality is a design problem — Right now it’s an accidental byproduct of AI alignment. It could be an interface we build deliberately.
The Component Gallery — An up-to-date repository of interface components based on examples from the world of design systems, designed to be a reference for anyone building user interfaces.
Hands-On: The Havid Nagan HN02 — The brand's most refined design yet offers quite a bit in its cushion-cased silhouette, with an ambitious price tag to match.
Introducing: The Glashütte Original Senator Chronograph And Senator Chronograph Navigator — The German brand streamlines its classic flyback chronograph by refining its dimensions and offering two very different dial executions.
Blowout Jobs Report Jolts Markets | Open Interest 9/4/2026 — Get a jump start on the US trading day with Isabelle Lee and Michael Mckee on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Stocks fall and yields jump after a blowout jobs report. White House economic adviser Chris Phelan joins us on…
Normal Tools — Useful online tools, no nonsense — Small, useful online tools that work directly in your browser.
Karl Koch | On the semantic web — Semantic HTML is interface infrastructure: native elements carry behaviour, accessibility, form semantics, keyboard support, and platform adaptation before styling begins.
Train Your Judgement — Settling for good enough is not good enough.
Design Is How It Tastes — If our design specs only tell models what the interface is made of, they have already forgotten what the interface is for
Feather – Simply beautiful open source icons — Feather is a collection of simply beautiful open source icons. Each icon is designed on a 24x24 grid with an emphasis on simplicity, consistency and readability.
Found a pottery wheel at an estate sale that hadn't been used in years. Threw a bowl and it collapsed immediately. The clay was fine. I just have no idea what I'm doing.
Should you really aim to be the best? — Knowing you are not the strongest in the room can sharpen you or wear you down. The research is oddly split…
Markets Await Bessent’s US Treasury Debt Buyback Details — Market participants will find out Wednesday how far Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is initially willing to go to restrain US bond yields via an expanded buyback program. The Treasury Department is expected to announce…
Tom Felton: I'm so excited to see Rupert Grint play Ron Weasley again — Tom Felton talks about taking on Broadway, Rupert Grint following his footsteps and a new Harry Potter generation.
What do you do if your best design work is a small project? — What 6 emojis can teach you about translating your impact
Creative Bloq | Daily inspiration for creative people — Daily inspiration for creative people. Fresh thinking, expert tips and tutorials to supercharge your creative muscles.
LEGO® building instructions through time | LEGO® History
Heathland plan to support two rare species of ant — Devon Wildlife Trust says it will improve the heathland homes of the narrow-headed and erratic ants.
Is Egypt’s Hamza Abdelkarim set to be Barcelona’s next breakout star? — Four goals in five games made the 18-year-old striker Barcelona's top scorer during preseason.
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.
Iran attacks Jordan, UAE after US bombs Larak Island: What’s the latest? — The retaliatory attacks came after the US targeted two Iranian launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
BYD Profit Rises for First Time in Five Quarters on Exports — BYD Co.’s profit rose for the first time in five quarters as surging exports and demand for some of its pricier models helped the world’s largest electric-vehicle maker overcome a downturn in China.
Noel Tata Faces Biggest Crisis Yet With Regulator’s IPO Order — The Indian banking regulator’s refusal to exempt Tata Sons Pvt. from a public listing-rule comes as an unexpected blow for group patriarch Noel Tata, who’s already struggling to address leadership uncertainty at…
Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas — Smashing Magazine — We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first freeform visual builder with an infinite canvas, and…
a CVE dispute — A few years years ago the curl project signed up and became a CNA. This means that we are masters of and can allocate our own CVE identifiers. For any security problems within our territory, it is we who decides if the issue should get a CVE or not. No more…
Introducing: The Legare Chapter 1 AGP Inverted — The First Watch From A New Brand By Wei Koh And Guillaume Tetu — The brand begins with a modernized take on a legendary movement.
Land-book — A gallery of landing pages.