How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
breakdown of the architecture behind Linear's speed: local-first sync, MobX observables, instant first loads, and a keyboard-first design.
performance.dev
Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI — Smashing Magazine
Every extra second of friction has a measurable business cost. Carrie Webster shares ten data-backed UX facts that link user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth.
smashingmagazine.com
AI in Design 2026: The inflection point is here
What 900 designers told us about AI, tools, teams, and the changing nature of design work.
designerfund.substack.com
AI for UX: The Guide you wish someone had given you sooner
Part 1 of a series: Understanding the landscape so you can lead in it
medium.com
Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world
Why design isn’t found in a prompt, but in toil and the creator’s “thinking hand.”
uxdesign.cc
Pink Floyd's burning man: Aubrey Powell's best photograph
‘A gust of wind blew the fire into the stuntman’s face. His team piled in with blankets to put him out – but he still lost an eyebrow and some of his moustache’
theguardian.com
Contra Labs - Human Creativity Benchmark
The frontier human data and evaluation lab for creative AI. 1.5M+ verified creative experts setting the benchmark for style, tone, and taste with next-gen creative tools.
contralabs.com
Interfaces › Design Engineering Magazine
Design Engineering Magazine
interfaces.dev
The prompt is not an interface
Why AI sent us back to the command line — On direct manipulation, visual intent, and the regression of AI tooling.
uxdesign.cc
The map that keeps Burning Man honest
The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.
not-ship.com
Design from the inside
Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.
mattstromawn.com
The bottleneck was never the code
The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.
thetypicalset.com
The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face rollers. He'd found them on Alibaba for $1.20
joanwestenberg.com
Synthetic Users: If, When, and How to Use AI-Generated “Research”
Synthetic users are fake users generated by AI. While there may be a few use cases for them, user research needs real users.
nngroup.com
DOC • Collected consciousness
AI product design for empowering human creativity
doc.cc
Output isn’t design - Linear
Design keeps being misunderstood in our industry. New tools keep promising to generate interfaces faster, move words to product instantly, or collapse design directly into code. The assumption behind them is clear: that design is the act of producing.
linear.app
On being a designer in the most interesting, exhausting moment of our careers.
The Four Pressures.
medium.com
Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer
For more than six years I’ve been working towards creating the best possible mapping experience on the Apple Watch. With yesterday’s launch of Pedometer++ 8, I feel like this design journey has reached a meaningful destination. I would contend that Pedometer++’s watchOS mapping support is the absolute best available on the App Store.
david-smith.org
Agents with Taste
How to transfer taste into an AI.
emilkowal.ski
Why I Stopped Calling Myself a Founder
I renamed my newsletter, rewrote my bio, and changed how I think about everything I build. Here's why.
danielrusnok.substack.com
Aposto | Romantik ilişkilerde dürtüsellik: Bu kadar yalnız insan varken, niçin bu kadar yalnız insan var?
Geçen haftalarda yayımlanan “ Kitleler neden dürtüsel liderleri sever?” başlıklı yazımda , dürtüselliği siyaset üzerinden anlatmaya çalışmış ve dürtüselliği , kaygının regü...
aposto.com
Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote?
AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.
legallayer.substack.com
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones | TechCrunch
The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.
techcrunch.com
Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design · Sam Henri Gold
As product teams scaled and design needed to justify itself inside engineering orgs, it was pushed toward systematization — and Figma invented its own primitives to make that work: components, styles, variables, props, and so on.
samhenri.gold
What Claude Design actually changes for designers
The handoff problem is finally getting solved — and it’s happening faster than most of us expected.
medium.com
Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left
AI makes competent output cheap. That makes taste more valuable, but also more incomplete. The real edge comes from pairing judgment with context, stakes, and the willingness to build.
rajnandan.com
Red-lining AI - Christopher Butler
Why blanket AI bans mistake the tool for the problem, and how thoughtful integration of automation, ethics, and creative work offers a better path forward.
chrbutler.com
Does it matter if you’re polite to Claude?
I ran 500 API calls with Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.7 to find out if tone affects Claude’s answer quality and token consumption.
wonderingaboutai.substack.com
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.
anthropic.com
How to Validate Your Product with AI: A 4-Step Research Framework
A practical guide to define research goals, write interview scripts, analyze feedback, and turn conversations into product decisions.
ileanamarcut.substack.com
Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott
We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.
matthiasott.com
Handmade Designs: The New Trust Signal
In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.
nngroup.com
LukeW | Should Designers
There's a question that never goes away in design: should designers code? My answer has always been yes. But for a decade or so, the complexity of front-end dev...
lukew.com
Actually, people love to work hard - Anil Dash
One of the most infuriating tropes that I see repeated in media is executives (usually from boring old companies) insisting that their employees don’t want to work hard. Media outlets dutifully repeat this pernicious lie, despite there being no evidence to back it up, and then cultural commentators either credulously amplify it, or actively take part in advancing the narrative as part of their agenda, even though they know it’s false.
anildash.com
The Building Block Economy
Mitchell Hashimoto The Building Block Economy The most effective way to build software and get massive adoption is no longer high quality mainline apps but via building blocks that enable and encourage others to build quantity over quality.
mitchellh.com
British computer scientist denies he is bitcoin developer Satoshi Nakamoto
New York Times report claims London-born Adam Back is creator of the cryptocurrency after comparing writings
theguardian.com
DOC • Perspective
On rational thinking, taking action, and the courage to choose.
doc.cc
What the model learned, and who taught it
AI training data and legal liability: why what you teach your model determines your risk
senaevren.substack.com
Designers finally have a say in the product they design
AI didn’t teach designers to code. It gave them back the decisions that were always theirs.
uxdesign.cc
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.
anthropic.com