You are no longer the user. You are the principal. — <p>The human is the principal. The agent is the operator. The architecture is the substrate they meet on.</p> <br/><br/>
AI confidence just dropped 17 points in six months. That’s actually great news. — <p><i>Presented by JumpCloud</i></p><hr/><p><b><i>The organizations losing confidence in AI are the ones most likely to get it right.</i></b></p><p>Six months ago, 40% of IT leaders described…
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No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life — Smashing Magazine — Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI…
The flaw is the feature — <p>What is polish actually worth?</p> <br/><br/>
Excalidraw libraries are the lowest-friction way to start a system. https://excalidraw.com
Ethiopian Air Studies Large Order That Puts Jet Rivals in Play — Ethiopian Airlines Group is in the final stages of deciding on an aircraft order for as many as 50 jets, as Africa’s largest carrier looks to renew its fleet and expand its foothold on the continent.
Penpot is the open-source Figma alternative that's finally getting good. https://penpot.app
4 reasons I'm canceling my ChatGPT subscription for local AI — Local LLMs cost nothing after setup, but that's not the real reason I ditched ChatGPT.
Fonts In Use — A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.
Everyone got excited they can suddenly code, and completely missed the point — Coding agents made software cheap to build. That just exposed the bottleneck that was always there: deciding what to build. A rant about broken product orgs, why PMs should use agents for discovery and
Apple dethrones Nvidia to regain title of world’s most valuable company — Shift in pecking order illustrates that investors are reassessing outlook for artificial intelligence
Lululemon Is At War With Itself — Lululemon built its reputation on leggings. But a product launch earlier this year quickly turned into a see-through problem. Now, the embattled athleisure giant has a new CEO and a seemingly fresh start. Lily Meier reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
The hard things about design — Design is legible to everyone, non-linear by nature, and powered by obsession. An honest accounting of what the craft costs, and why it costs more than the crafts sitting right next to it.
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.
UX & Usability Articles from Nielsen Norman Group — Research-based articles about user experience (UX), interaction design, web usability, user testing, and UI/GUI design by Nielsen Norman Group authors, including Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini, and o
The Japanese Shop Blog — Learn all about various aspects of Japanese culture from our Blog! From learning about delicious Japanese food and drink to exciting places to discover!
Scanning for Pangram errors — I scanned over 2 million words into Pangram looking for false positives
How to Research Technical Topics With AI — How I go from a technical question I cannot answer to an explanation I can reconstruct without the model
The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far) — "AI design" is one label but has forked into four different types of work.
Apple Developer app gains Liquid Glass design and WWDC 2026 iMessage stickers - 9to5Mac — There’s a new version of the multi-platform Apple Developer app out today ahead of WWDC 2026. Apple Developer version 11.0...
98% isn't very much — <p>Why a 98% browser support metric still excludes millions of users.</p> <br/><br/>
Discovery vs Delivery — A personal perspective on AI, product quality and the growing divide between deciding what should exist and efficiently building it.
unDraw - Open source illustrations for any idea — Open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create. Build beautiful websites, products and applications with your color, for free.
If you’re a button, you have one job – Unsung — A blog about software craft and quality
performative-ui | AI-native React Components — <p>Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.</p> <br/><br/>
Four Levels Of Customer Understanding — Smashing Magazine — What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things. To understand the underlying reasons for user behavior, it helps to look beyond the surface and explore hidden motivations, root causes, and the diffe
A designer mapped out every decision in a cereal box layout. The way the type sits at eye level, where your hand naturally grabs... none of it is accident.
Build software better, together — GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
Brand New — Opinions on corporate and brand identity work
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking — The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment — Jeffrey Zeldman helped end the browser wars by making the case for standards. We are starting that journey again and we should follow his…
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A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung — A blog about software craft and quality
Unconventional Graphic Design & text art tools — A huge list of unconventional graphic design and text art tools, updated regularly (2026)
GitHub - shumaiOne/shumai: Open-source platform for all your creative work — Open-source platform for all your creative work. Contribute to shumaiOne/shumai development by creating an account on GitHub.
The parts of your system you never wrote down — Reopening every decision you left implicit, and settling it without you
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…
WE AND THE COLOR — Online Magazine and Blog for your Creative Inspiration in Design, Photography, Art
Earth Garden — Rotate a globe and listen to nearby nature soundscapes curated from Freesound.
Foreman, guardian, team builder: all this is a box — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/foreman-guardian-team-builder-all-this-is-a-box-7d1119af30ba?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2
Shader Lab | basement.studio — A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders.
What sits on the engawa — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/what-sits-on-the-engawa-46acaa876713?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/1*bxrlII6C3cm2lgyW8ywbBQ.png"…
Liquid Glass: who gets to decide how an interface looks? — <p>Notes from the 2026 WWDC keynote.</p> <br/><br/>
Sperm Whales Seem to Change Their Calls When Ships Are Near, Highlighting the Implications of Underwater Noise Pollution — Several of the huge cetaceans living in the eastern Caribbean Sea shortened the intervals between their clicks and used one click pattern more than another…
Authors face backlash for participation in 2022 Google AI study — Thirteen authors joined a little-known Google AI study in 2022. Now they're facing backlash.
iPhone 18 Pro could introduce new Apple solution for cellular, hints report - 9to5Mac — iPhone 18 Pro could make a major transition away from Qualcomm modems in favor of an Apple-designed C2. Here’s the latest update.
What happened to David Batty, who shook off penalty miss against Argentina? — England midfielder David Batty quickly shook off his penalty miss against Argentina in 1998. As the two teams prepare to meet in the World Cup knockout stage again, BBC Sport asks: what happened to him?
Homepage - Mindsparkle Mag | Design Inspiration — Mindsparkle Mag showcases the best of branding, web design, graphic and packaging projects through in-depth case studies and behind-the-scenes with deep insights—revealing how standout work is actually made.
What Star Trek got right about AI — The show’s voice-first computer, plain-language querying, and universal translator anticipated the assistants we ship now — the interface…
The Saudi-led $55 billion takeover of EA has closed — Electronic Arts is once again a privately held company, but it's saddled with $20 billion in new debt.
Design Engineering | Marcelo Chaman — What design engineering is, how it's changed, and where it's going
Introducing: The Autodromo Group C Turbo Sport Chronograph — Auto-inspired Autodromo returns with a unique analog-digital offering, marking its first all-new watch since 2023.
What critical thinking means for senior designers (and how to apply it) — <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/what-critical-thinking-means-for-senior-designers-and-how-to-apply-it-7423762b2391?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4"><img
Federal money for workforce training begins, but few programs qualify — July 1 marks the official opening of a program that allows federal dollars to go toward short-term workforce training programs. So far just 11 states have created roadmaps for colleges to apply.
3 crisp new Netflix shows to lighten up your weekend (August 14-16) — 3 new Netflix picks this weekend: a Shane Gillis garage sitcom, a classic Aussie period drama, and a fresh new stand-up special.
Seed News - ByteDance Seed Team — One-take Creation, Flexible Referencing: Introducing Seedance 2.5
The Idea Machine — Random Project & App Idea Generator — Stuck on what to build next? Pull the lever to generate a random project or app idea — a surprise mashup of a life space, a product format, and a twist. Over 1,000,000 combinations.
Building Personal Software: Crafting Your Own Tools for Success — Explore the rise of Personal Software: a new era of bespoke tools designed for individual needs, transforming how we solve problems.
A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It’s Real. - Yanko Design — Back in 1985, an electrical engineer at Polaroid named Bill Freeman had an idea for a three-sided zipper. Not a novelty item, not a quirky art piece, but a genuinely functional fastener capable of…