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What’s !important #14: Gap Decorations, random(), field sizing, and More

Developers explore CSS Gap Decorations, random(), and field sizing in recent experiments and tutorials.

30 Jun3 min read

A smaller screen needs a different story

Adapting a website for mobile often requires a different design approach, not just making elements smaller.

Everyone’s a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking.

Most people on LinkedIn strive to be thought leaders, but few actually think, instead relying on AI-generated content.

25 May2 min read

AI in Design Report 2026

Designers are rebuilding their tools, craft, and teams around AI in 2026.

25 May15 min read

The interface is no longer the product

The interface is no longer the product, as AI agents will interact with apps rebuilt around structured representations.

25 May8 min read

After automation

AI automation paradoxically creates more, not less, work for humans by commoditizing explicit expertise and increasing demand for unique human contributions.

25 May32 min read

html.to.design — New Chrome extension feature

A Chrome extension converts websites into fully editable Figma designs with a companion Figma plugin.

18 May5 min read

Defense against dishonest charts

Understanding chart anatomy and visual encodings helps defend against dishonest charts.

18 May12 min read

theSVG

TheSVG offers a free open-source library of over 6,030 brand SVG icons for developers and designers.

18 May5 min read

How the pursuit of optimisation reshaped art, aesthetics and us

The pursuit of optimisation has reshaped art and aesthetics, prioritising frictionlessness and legibility in design.

18 May9 min read

A catechism for robots

A catechism for robots outlines guidelines for artificial intelligence to make decisions and interact with humans in a helpful and ethical manner.

The text is not the product

Academia's focus on text production is being reevaluated due to generative AI's ability to create coherent text.

Emotion Explorer

Emotions are mapped on a valence-arousal space for exploration.

15 May

Still Night: A painting you can play

Researchers found that brightness in colors and sounds evokes similar emotional responses, with bright colors and sounds feeling happier and darker ones feeling sadder.

The duality of language models in the browser

Small language models in browsers offer a private and energy-efficient alternative to large models.

How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma

Claude Code can follow a design system in Figma by binding values to it through specific skills.

15 May

AI slop is killing online communities

AI-generated content is flooding online communities with low-quality work, driving up noise and making valuable content harder to find.

14 May9 min read

Doing Design Right

Doing Design Right is a UI/UX course focused on practice through redesigning a complex application with an outdated UI.

Loop

Loop is a macOS application that streamlines window management, allowing users to move, resize, and arrange windows efficiently using a customizable radial menu.

Motiff

Motiff is an AI-powered UI design tool featuring automated tasks and collaborative interface design capabilities.

Feedback Wizard

Feedback Wizard is a Figma plugin that provides AI-generated design feedback to improve UX and UI designs.

Typr Editor

Typr Editor is an open-source, customizable rich text editor for React.js, built with Tiptap.dev, offering content management and user state features.

Owl AI

Owl AI leverages GPT-4o and Dalle-3 to generate unique logos from text descriptions, refine hand-drawn sketches, and create variations of existing designs for creators.