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- No more icons in every menu by default — 2026-10-27
An AI notepad for user interviews - Jot down what stands out while the participant talks, and Granola fills in the rest from the transcript…
- Taste is not a design methodology — 2026-10-20
An AI notepad for user interviews - Jot down what stands out while the participant talks, and Granola fills in the rest from the transcript…
- The fake double diamond is dead. The real one is immortal — 2026-10-13
The design tool for teams shipping with agents - Introducing Paper: a connected canvas, a new workflow for designers. Let agents do the busy…
- Don’t forget to design — 2026-10-06
Hugeicons: Beautiful icons that make products feel premium - 60,000+ icons. Everything you need to make your UI look beautiful and polished.
- The default is not a design decision — 2026-09-29
Paper is the design tool for teams shipping with agents - Introducing Paper: a connected canvas, a new workflow for designers.
- Designing with AI — 2026-09-22
Designing with AI - Prompt-to-code interfaces don’t create better ideas by themselves.
- Limit the number of details — 2026-09-15
The design tool for teams shipping with agents - Introducing Paper: a connected canvas, a new workflow for designers. Let agents do the busy…
- The Head of Design is not the head of design — 2026-09-08
The Head of Design is not the head of design - Whoever holds the title is not the head of design.
- Invisible interfaces — 2026-09-01
Paper is the design tool for teams shipping with agents - Introducing Paper: a connected canvas, a new workflow for designers.
- Design bookmarks — 2026-08-25
Early preview of the /design command in Claude Code - From CC Desktop or CLI, try something like “/design a few options for {feature}” befor…
- Interface cheat sheet — 2026-08-18
Designing the first five minutes - Users don’t form first impressions based on output quality alone.
- The last product design tool — 2026-08-11
How to test a Figma Design System with Claude Code and figma-cli - A snapshot, a contract per component, and a check that catches drift, unb…
- Skills and workflows for designers — 2026-08-04
The plateau of sad gray icons - The sad gray icons looked like a taste problem, but the biggest improvement came from giving the agent acces…
- Components are dead — 2026-07-28
Components are dead - Tokens are the layer we can still control.
- Why is AI bad at design? — 2026-07-21
Design systems need evals - You can write the cleanest AGENTS.
- The hard things about design — 2026-07-14
The designer’s guide to the buttons - A book about UX/UI design, from Xerox Alto to Vision Pro.
- 39 principles for designing human-AI interaction — 2026-07-07
Stack Overflow rebrand: A legacy recoded - A conceptual rebrand exploring how Stack Overflow can evolve its identity and digital experience…
- Product design psychology — 2026-06-30
What does Figma do next? - Figma won against Sketch because it realized the center of gravity could change.
- 16 little UI design tips — 2026-06-23
Makers Manifesto: Principles for making great products - We offer these principles not as a fixed doctrine but as a working position — one w…
- Daily Designer — 2026-06-16
UI Skills for design engineers - Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and inter…
- Write-first design — 2026-06-09
The art of noticing - What we pay attention to opens up. Stare at an ant for an hour and you’ll be enthralled.
- Tobias van Schneider creates the things he wish existed — 2026-06-02
Why the Ferrari Luce looks like that - When your explicit goal is to attract a completely different buyer with an entirely different product…
- Figma design agent — 2026-05-26
The Figma design agent is here - It’s fine-tuned for editing Figma files, so outputs are tailored to your design context and built for direc…
- The machine started feeling familiar — 2026-05-19
The year the machine started feeling familiar - Do not use AI to automate or take away the joy for the thing you used to have. Because if yo…
- The death of design — 2026-05-11
The death of design - If you call yourself a designer and—be honest with yourself—the bulk of your role has been the production of flat pict…
- UX design portfolio in 2026 — 2026-05-04
UX design portfolio in 2026 - A 2026 UX portfolio isn’t about polished case studies; it’s proof of how you tackle ambiguity, use AI as a tru…
- Output isn’t design — 2026-04-28
Output isn’t design - Design keeps being misunderstood in our industry. New tools keep promising to generate interfaces faster, move words t…
- Claude Design — 2026-04-21
What a UX strategy is - A UX strategy is a document that answers three questions specifically about the experience you’re building: what’s t…
- State of prototyping — 2026-04-14
The new era of UX (video) - Jenny Wen led design on FigJam, one of the most playful tools to hit design in a decade. Now she’s at Anthropic…
- Design at the edges — 2026-04-07
Design at the edges - When agents absorb the middle of the workflow, what’s left is what always mattered.
- Beyond prototyping — 2026-03-31
Your AI edge is the vocabulary you already have - What a decade of design fundamentals taught me about delegating to Claude Code—and why Shi…
- Modal vs. separate page: UX decision tree — 2026-03-24
Emil Kowalski’s UI polish skill - This skill encodes Emil Kowalski’s philosophy on UI polish, component design, animation decisions, and the…
- Details that make interfaces feel better — 2026-03-17
What famous creatives had to unlearn from design school - Reflections from Stefan Sagmeister, Shantell Martin, Erik Kessels, and 10 more cre…
- Real-time UI — 2026-03-10
UX Components (beta) - A practical guide to UX components — what they are, when to reach for them, and when to choose something else instead…
- The design process is dead — 2026-03-03
The design process is dead.
- My favorite type of designers — 2026-02-24
My favorite type of designers - There are many types of GREAT designers I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the past two decades and…
- The new design process — 2026-02-17
Life after Figma is coming - As code becomes source of truth, design tools become interfaces on code, not the other way round.
- The state of buttons — 2026-02-10
Why designers can no longer trust the design process (video) - With AI accelerating prototyping, smaller teams doing more, and craft becomin…
- 16 pieces of design wisdom — 2026-02-03
16 pieces of design wisdom - After years of designing and leading designers, here are my honest reflections.
- Rethinking “pixel perfect” — 2026-01-27
Gas town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale - On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking a…
- User Interface Wiki — 2026-01-20
Ycode AI: Start your website with AI - Build your website in seconds with AI, then take full control of design and content in Ycode.
- The rise of the Model Designer — 2026-01-13
The rise of the Model Designer - The emergence of this new role seems like proof of this change we’re noticing.
- Friction by design — 2026-01-06
How I do web design - Seven years ago, I started writing down the things that actually helped me as a designer.
- The art of vibe design — 2025-12-23
On managing creative highs and lows - Musician Carlyn Bezic (Jane Inc. ) discusses the power of an alter-ego, deriving liberation from near-…
- Vibe coding for designers — 2025-12-16
Figma Make: Turn your designs into interactive prototypes in minutes - Turn your ideas into clickable, on-brand prototypes. Just paste in yo…
- Design decisions — 2025-12-09
Readymag Websites of the Year winners announced - Check out 3 winners and 25 nominees: the Community, Jury, and Readymag team have chosen de…
- Reminder for all designers — 2025-12-02
Elevate design and speed. 50% off first 3 mos - Stop debugging client’s hosting issues.
- Good visual design — 2025-11-25
The Mindful Design course is now live - 24 hours of videos with 15-30 hours of exercises make course far beyond a deep dive. Save £60 using…
- 5 habits of the worst designers — 2025-11-19
Design quality depends on stable infrastructure - Cloudways manages deployment, scaling, and stability, ensuring your work shines. Get 50% o…
- True design is better — 2025-11-11
True design is better than new design - David Reinfurt discusses how individual perspective is the real driver of a design practice.
- Design’s Github moment — 2025-11-04
Branding Superhuman - It’s a bird. It’s a plane.
- Archive by Pentagram — 2025-10-28
Archive by Pentagram - A place where we’ve condensed over 50 years of our design prowess into an immersive exploration.
- Beyond consistency — 2025-10-21
Designers have to move from the surface to the substrate - We are entering a new frontier. For the first time, the interface itself thinks.
- Iterative design process — 2025-10-14
Turn your designs into interactive prototypes in minutes - Figma Make lets you quickly turn your ideas into clickable, on-brand prototypes.
- 7 practical animation tips — 2025-10-07
7 practical animation tips - Seven simple ideas you can use to improve your animations today.
- 5 habits of the best designers — 2025-09-30
Transitioning from being a developer to a manager - I understand what it means to move into a management position as a developer, and hopefu…
- 5 UX frameworks — 2025-09-23
The guide every product designer wishes they had - Smart, unflinching, and no-nonsense. A book about real-world product work: research, comm…
- Design for AI — 2025-09-16
Should designers be paid the same as engineers? - Until designers start valuing themselves properly and matching the productivity and busine…
- Minimalism — 2025-09-09
Improving design to code with the Dev Mode MCP server (video) - The Dev Mode MCP server enables users to extract critical context informatio…
- Doing great design — 2025-09-02
Where AI is failing design systems, and where we are failing AI - For a design system program where the goal is often stable, high quality,…
- Good UX is not enough — 2025-08-26
BrowserStack Figma plugin for accessible design-to-dev handoff - Scan Figma layouts for contrast, spacing, focus order and tap targets. Get…
- AI design patterns — 2025-08-19
What’s next for AI design patterns (video) - In this episode we go deep into how AI is changing the way we interact with digital products an…
- The product design talent crisis — 2025-08-04
The 3 I’s of microcopy: Inform, Influence, and Interact - Microcopy can have three different purposes: informing users, influencing them, an…
- The AI design library — 2025-07-29
AI might be the best thing to happen to design communication - AI, for all its synthetic nature, is requiring us to speak more clearly about…
- MCP for designers — 2025-07-22
A handy use of subgrid to enhance a simple layout - Subgrid in CSS is really handy for getting a nice level of design detail in place, espec…
- Better notification UX — 2025-07-08
How we shaped the visual identity for Config 2025 - From giant inflatable glyphs to welcoming soundscapes, Figma’s Brand Studio designed an…
- Product design in 2025 — 2025-07-01
Product design in 2025 - I’m digging into 7 questions that companies have asked me in recent months.
- Interaction design concepts — 2025-06-24
AI Prompt your prototypes - AI user test before sharing with humans. Justify your earliest designs with heat-maps, duration, drop offs and m…
- The best interfaces we never built — 2025-06-17
State-of-the-art prompting for AI agents - At first, prompting seemed to be a temporary workaround for getting the most out of large languag…
- The new age of UI — 2025-06-10
State of CSS 2025 - After years of rapid innovation, now feels like the right time for browser vendors to take a beat to consolidate, fix br…
- Figma’s new grid — 2025-06-03
LetterBucket: Where newsletters become real businesses - The newsletter tool that feels like Notion. Write, send, and publish to your site:…
- Sam & Jony introduce io — 2025-05-27
MCP: Model-Context-Protocol - David Soria Parra shared insights on the MCP, an open protocol designed to standardize how AI applications int…
- Material Design 3 Expressive — 2025-05-20
Good design comes from looking, great design comes from looking away - Great design requires both looking and looking away - studying and ig…
- Adobe’s brand refresh — 2025-05-13
Free UI animation tool, made simple for Product Designers - Phase helps designers create beautiful, smooth UI animations and micro-interacti…
- UX and design files organization template — 2025-05-06
UX and design files organization template - Proper organization of assets will not happen automatically.
- Simple design — 2025-04-29
So, you want to give up CSS pre- and post-processors…
- Design isn’t dead — 2025-04-22
Figma to Readymag plugin: Transfer designs in seconds - You don’t have to manually recreate Figma-based designs in Readymag now - just add t…
- Design system tactics — 2025-04-15
Design system tactics - Whether you’re starting fresh or maintaining a mature system, this growing collection of tactics is designed to help…
- Why is the world losing color? — 2025-04-08
Item Flow: A new unified concept for layout - CSS Grid and Flexbox brought incredible layout tools to the web, but they don’t yet do everyth…
- 10 rules for crafting products — 2025-04-01
New course: AI for UX Design - Learn to integrate AI into your UX workflow to speed up research, ideation, prototyping, and more. Practical,…
- Our interfaces have lost their senses — 2025-03-25
Saying bye to 4px spacing and hello to Fibonacci - The issue I have with the even number 4px calculation grid systems is that they can feel…
- The product design process — 2025-03-17
Using AI to write more realistic prototype copy - While AI isn’t a replacement for professional UX writers/content designers, it can make a…
- AI is reshaping UI — 2025-03-11
The workspace for research - The AI browser for visual research and note-taking. Drag and drop images, files, and links into an infinite can…
- Developing taste — 2025-03-03
Earn online certifications in UX writing and content design - Self-paced courses and workshops for critical UX skills including content test…
- The design game has changed — 2025-02-24
UX Content Collective - Self-paced courses and workshops for critical UX skills including content testing, integrating AI, and UX writing. H…
- YouTube’s new brand palette — 2025-02-17
Ycode: Website builder for custom design websites - All-in-one website builder and CMS to design, host, and update your custom design websit…
- OpenAI brand refresh — 2025-02-10
Elevate your designs with UX content skills and certifications - Self-paced courses and workshops for critical UX skills including content t…
- Simplify your product design — 2025-02-03
Elevate your designs with UX content skills and certifications - Self-paced courses and workshops for critical UX skills including content t…
- Nokia Design Archive — 2025-01-27
Dissolving the line between design and engineering - This conversation is a deep dive into what it looks like for designers to approach thei…
- Visual design trends — 2025-01-20
Loose thoughts on versioning in Figma - Versioning components is a tricky one. Versioning files (or designs) arguably even harder, especiall…
- The future of design collaboration — 2025-01-13
2024 Highlights from Readymag, the no-code design tool - Last year, Readymag added Lottie and custom easing in animation, released new templ…
- Design is optimism — 2025-01-06
Online UX design courses by experts, with industry-recognized certificates - With 30% off your IxDF Professional membership + 10 free Master…
- UX: It’s deeper than design — 2024-12-23
Online UX design courses by experts, with industry-recognized certificates - With 30% off your IxDF Professional membership + 10 free Master…
- The state of UX in 2025 — 2024-12-16
Designing with LLMs in the toolbox - It’s always good to be on a lookout for ways to improve your day-to-day workflows and be able to automa…
- 7 rules for designing the unexpected — 2024-12-09
Pentagram leads the new era of craft - Pentagram, renowned for its exceptional design work and widely regarded as one of the most admired ag…
- Figma Pattern Library — 2024-12-02
The root causes for the dev-design mismatch - Designers use an unconstrained canvas tool to design for rule-based interactive systems, hopin…
- Skills for interaction designers — 2024-11-25
The two most important skills for interaction designers - They are almost certainly not what you think they are.
- The top ten design books — 2024-11-18
Beautiful focus outlines - Unfortunately, focus outlines are often overlooked in web design. Clients and designers might not even notice the…
- Design trends for 2025 — 2024-11-11
A friendly introduction to Container Queries - For a very long time, the most-requested CSS feature has been container queries.
- The future of design — 2024-11-04
Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free - Flexible Typesetting has sold thousands of copies and given a new generation of designers fres…
- Designing for anyone — 2024-10-28
Behind the design: Fluent illustration UX video - To celebrate our refreshed Fluent illustrations, we created a sizzle video that highlights…
- Note to new design managers — 2024-10-21
Note to new design managers - Having elevated a handful of talented folks into design management roles, I’ve come to observe a few things th…