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How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

ploum.net

The Napoleon technique is a productivity technique that involves postponing dealing with something if it’s likely to get resolved without your immediate input.

effectiviology.com

What it really takes to build a product inside ChatGPT while the ecosystem is still forming (and without an engineering team)

uxdesign.cc

From a designer who started using the CLI instead of traditional design tools

pablostanley.substack.com

Why tech products need humanity-centered designers

medium.com

A bookmark-able guide detailing the fundamentals of color theory and practice for designers

medium.muz.li

Yes, Virginia, design does matter. Better web page layouts aren’t only about aesthetics. A layout with clear hierarchies can turn scanners to readers, and readers to members. Learn how visual…

alistapart.com

Explore how Google designers use gradients, motion, and foundational shapes to build trust and intuition within the evolving Gemini AI assistant experience.

design.google

A fundamental design principle for techno optimists. How we need to move towards friction in digital culture. By Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters

designingfriction.com

What gets lost when everything is effortless? For years, good digital design has been framed as the removal of friction. Faster flows. Fewer steps. Instant …

carlbarenbrug.com

Money, AI, jobs and specifically, what the future may hold for creatives

letters.thedankoe.com

Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to approp…

alistapart.com

How Claude Code is showing us what apps may become

veen.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

anthropic.com

UX faced instability from layoffs, hiring freezes, and AI hype; now, the field is stabilizing, but differentiation and business impact are vital.

nngroup.com

Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now.

technologyreview.com

In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, whereas some people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode. On the flip side, long-term reading in light mode may be associated with myopia.

nngroup.com

Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.

alexharri.com

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

alexharri.com

Why shipping products matters in the age of AI and what designers can learn from it

uxdesign.cc

Tasarım, teknoloji, sanat ve gündelik hayat üzerine denemeler

manifold.press

Yes, maybe you think that you worked so hard to learn coding, and now machines are doing it for you. But what was the fire inside you, when you coded till night to see your project working? It was building. And now you can build more and better, if you find your way to use AI effectively. The fun is still there, untouched.

antirez.com

Sound is the forgotten sense in web design. Used well, it adds feedback, personality, and presence that visuals alone cannot achieve.

userinterface.wiki

Current AI interfaces lull us into thinking we’re talking to something that can make meaningful judgments about what’s valuable. We’re not — we’re

vaughntan.org

Why We Need a Right to Reality in the Age of Generative Isolation

medium.com

Weekly insights into better UX practices

52weeksofux.com

Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.

burkeholland.github.io

GANADOR PREMIOS GOYA 2023- MEJOR CORTOMETRAJE DE ANIMACIÓNWINNER OF THE GOYA AWARDS 2023 - BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILMEn esta sociedad cada ser humano repite u...

youtube.com

Guto Requena reimagines a 1962 modernist apartment in São Paolo into a verdant interior forest of Brazilian plants.

thisiscolossal.com

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me

Ideas on Design is a personal blog exploring the fields of design, branding, and creativity. Click to read Ideas on Design, by David Mendes, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

ideasondesign.com

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

addyosmani.com

AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.

ma.ttias.be

The guide is for engineers and curious people who use the web every day, but never built a mental model of how browsers work.

howbrowserswork.com

The shift in product design with the advent of AI and a potential generative experiential future

uxdesign.cc

Thinking is the foundation of everything we do and, for most of us that foundation has many cracks. Here are 10 ideas to consider in 2026. These ideas are not for everyone, but useful for some.

shreyasdoshi.substack.com

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes

Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community

uxmatters.com

A behavioral design think tank, we apply decision science, digital innovation & lean methodologies to pressing problems in policy, business & social justice

thedecisionlab.com

Why curation, discernment, and restraint matter more than ever

badgirlmedia.com

We accept the light contained in the work of others without darkening their efforts.

themarginalian.org

The AI backlash is here & what skills to learn

letters.thedankoe.com

The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve Jobs' passion project.

computerhistory.org

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …

simonwillison.net

Learn how Beehiiv can fix its newsletter subscription UX with 6 psychology principles and 1 tactic that can drastically improve any customer’s journey.

growth.design

Balance your business goals and user needs by working out if your features are any good

uxdesign.cc

Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today).

smashingmagazine.com

do this before 2026

letters.thedankoe.com

You spent hours crafting the perfect article. Your website design is flawless. Your brand identity is strong. Then someone shares your link on LinkedIn, and it shows up with a broken image, generic text, and looks like spam. Your brand just took a hit. And you didn't even know it was happening.

bookmarker.cc

Predictions for UX in 2025 revisited | 2025 saw major paradigm changes in AI | Simple AI reduces doctors’ burnout | Fast sales growth for providers of useful AI services

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com

IndieWire's critics survey determined the 50 best movies of 2025.

indiewire.com

Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema

theguardian.com

AI isn't a get rich quick scheme, but it is a shortcut.

thedankoe.com

Disappear for 3-6 months and focus on these 4 habits.

thedankoe.com

Embracing ambiguity as a superpower.

uxdesign.cc

No, it’s not “nice to have”. A case study of the financial impact of smart design decisions in payment systems.

uxdesign.cc

Visual foundations are an art that must be mastered, but stable cognitive patterns, the ones widely used in design, marketing, and…

uxdesign.cc

Whether they are tools, toys, or mirror reflections, external objects temporarily become part of who we are all the time.

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

On authenticity

productidentity.co

In 1970, artist John Baldessari took his entire life's work of landscape paintings, lit it ablaze, and watched decades of work burn to ash.

vanschneider.com

This story shows the problem with most NPS surveys. Learn how to increase the response rate of your surveys and get better customer insights.

growth.design

A reference manual for people who design and build software.

makingsoftware.com

How removing friction from creative tools removes the meaning from creative work

uxdesign.cc

To create appealing designs, align type and elements to a grid, build a clear visual hierarchy, use color intentionally, and stay consistent with every design choice.

nngroup.com

Let’s dive into the building blocks of UX strategy and see how it speaks the language of product and business strategy to create user value while achieving company goals. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today).

smashingmagazine.com

A prediction essay for the next 20 years of intelligent robotics

android-dreams.ai

In his AI Speaker Series presentation at Sutter Hill Ventures, Henry Modisett, Head of Design at Perplexity, shared insights on designing AI products and the ev...

lukew.com

At this point it's pretty obvious that AI coding agents can massively accelerate the time it takes to build software. But when software development teams experi...

lukew.com

Artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed how UX professionals work. What once required hours of manual analysis and documentation can now be accelerated with the right prompts. From distilling research findings to crafting accessible interfaces, AI assists at every stage of the design process.

meetmono.com

A deep dive into how thoughtful URL design can enhance usability, shareability, and performance. Learn what state belongs in URLs, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical patterns for modern web apps.

alfy.blog

Instagram's vision to share our world through beautiful photos is a thing of the past. Ethical dilemmas are blatant and need our utmost attention.

growth.design

On connection, multi-modality, and self-expression.

doc.cc

These principles, derived from experience and refined over three decades, require validation and tuning for specific design domains. No list such as this can be complete, but even the original list from 1985, has been well received as a useful guide to students and designers.

cs.umd.edu

A new double album is due with previously unreleased music by the trumpeter-singer for the 1988 documentary 'Let's Get Lost'

jazzwax.com

This case study shows you how to use Mental Models to improve your product's user experience.

growth.design

We obsess over finding the meaning and purpose of our lives. But how do we go about finding it? We picture life as a ladder we climb. The next rung the next logical step. My experience says this is not the way. We discover what we're meant to do in

ystrickler.com

Jony Ive’s LoveFrom and Japanese company Balmuda join forces to collaborate on the ‘Sailing Lantern’, an object informed by nature and precision

wallpaper.com

The story behind the Gotham type family

frerejones.com

Ask yourself a simple question and create a product that people love.

medium.com

Samuel Hulick joins us to discuss his new product design framework — they call it Value Paths — for healthy, sustainable growth.

intercom.com

The barcode is an incredibly interesting and rather unique graphic device. Very few graphic inventions have shaped the visual landscape of our everyday lives as quietly and ubiquitously as the barcode.

pangrampangram.com

Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). With a live UX training starting next week.

smashingmagazine.com

Master usability heuristics and AI design principles through interactive examples. Features both classic web heuristics and modern GenAI guidelines with hands-on demonstrations.

emesstyle.com

The fifth annual Brands That Matter list recognizes companies and leading CMOs that have placed their brands squarely at the intersection of culture and business.

fastcompany.com

Use money as a tool for more meaningful forms of wealth.

sahilbloom.substack.com

🧠 Cognitive load is what matters. Contribute to zakirullin/cognitive-load development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Jony Ive's 1998 iMac ushered in a two-decade revolution that made design culturally dominant, teaching the world to care about curves, materials, and craft. But a new force is rising that doesn't live on surfaces at all—artificial intelligence is dissolving the interface itself, shifting design from

suffsyed.com

Filters can make or break your UX, and designing them is not as straightforward as you might think.

uxdesign.cc

An archive of critical writing about design. From architecture and urbanism to product, fashion, graphic and beyond.

readingdesign.org

As a knowledge worker, your mind is your most important tool. You can improve the way you use this tool by studying the way brilliant thinkers conduct research, connect ideas, solve problems and make decisions.

nesslabs.com

Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude.

catb.org

Product thinking is the skill of knowing what makes a product useful — and loved — by people. As with all skills, it can be nurtured and developed.

future.com

The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry

terriblesoftware.org

Behance founder and Adobe's Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky believes the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture is the middle stretch of company building. Here he zeroes in on what startups must do to iterate and improve products mid-flight.

review.firstround.com

why everyone is racing to get rich

letters.thedankoe.com

Some of us stumbled into AI design without meaning to. One day you’re pushing pixels for a fintech dashboard, the next you’re figuring out…

medium.com

We're launching Designer Founders to inspire the next generation of ambitious designers to take the leap of entrepreneurship.

designerfounders.substack.com

I often find myself contemplating the greatest creators in history — those rare artists, designers, and thinkers whose work transformed how we see

chrbutler.com

In the age of AI, design is less about making and more about meaning.

fastcompany.com

A practical introduction to typography basics — from anatomy and spacing to legibility and alignment — for designers who want to create…

uxdesign.cc

A few months ago, a client was reviewing a landing page design with my team. They had created it themselves using a page builder tool — one of those

chrbutler.com

Last week, Google released Nano Banana Pro, their latest image generator. The demos looked impressive. I opened Gemini to try it. Then I had a question I needed to ask. Something unrelated to image…

eleganthack.com

Design systems are no longer just tidy component libraries living in Figma, helping us keep things neat. They are evolving into a living language layer that expresses how a product thinks and behaves. The designer's role is moving from "the person who draws the screens" to "the person who architects that language".

lab.blurple.digital

On elevating craft through critical thinking.

doc.cc

When every digital experience is generated in real time for each user, what exactly are designers supposed to be making? Here's what leaders need to know.

fantasy.co

The musings of a designer on why he designs the way he does and what he’s learned along the journey.

lessons.design

Businesses must shift their focus from a narrow, product-level view of UX to a holistic one that spans a customer's lifelong experience.

nngroup.com

2025. has been a strong and eventful year of progress in LLMs. The following is a list of personally notable and mildly surprising "paradigm changes" - things that altered the landscape and stood out to me conceptually.

karpathy.bearblog.dev

Our brain is a prediction machine that can’t be stopped. No matter how hard we try, it will still build expectations.

uxdesign.cc

The rise of AI agents is transforming how software can be built. The promise of agents is that developers might write code quicker, delegate multiple tasks to different agents, and even write a full piece of software purely out of natural language. In reality, what roles agents play in professional software development remains in question. This paper investigates how experienced developers use agents in building software, including their motivations, strategies, task suitability, and sentiments. Through field observations (N=13) and qualitative surveys (N=99), we find that while experienced de

arxiv.org