The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube — The last several decades of technological progress have, in large part, been about finding more and more things we can do with semiconductors and the technology for producing them.
Material Symbols moved from font to variable font — designers everywhere rejoiced. https://fonts.google.com/icons
Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking — Smashing Magazine — In a world where AI is informing more design choices, it’s easy to mistake predictions for certainties. This article introduces Probabilistic Design, a mindset that allows UX and…
Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies — On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention
The Sites We Lost — A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
Nappy | Beautifully Diverse Stock Photos — Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free. For commercial and personal use.
The thinking was never just mine — Maybe “mine” was never about origin. Maybe it was about what gets carried forward.
Open source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006 — thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design and Art in its many forms.
Emotional Gakpo scores days after loss of unborn son — Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo scores for the Netherlands days after the loss of his unborn son, as they are knocked out on penalties by Morocco.
Pinterest — Trending visual ideas.
Letterbox — Letters made of letters — Letters shaped by text. Pick a font, choose your colors, and watch type come alive.
Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields — How to make infinite design variations using Perlin noise fields, a simple generative algorithm.
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><
The State of Modern Research 2026: Closing the Listening Gap — <p>Inside — a survey of 309 researchers and leaders shows why insights struggle to shape decisions and how modern teams are closing that gap.</p> <br/><br/>
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