Designator

html.to.design — New Chrome extension feature

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

Defense against dishonest charts

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

theSVG

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Doing Design Right

Doing Design Right is a UI/UX course focused on practice through redesigning a complex application with an outdated UI.

Figgy

Figgy generates a GitHub-style contributions graph for Figma, helping users track design productivity and work patterns.

Trae

ByteDance launches Trae, an adaptive AI-powered code editor similar to Cursor.

Motiff

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

Claude Artifacts

Claude Artifacts introduces a collaborative workspace on the Claude.ai platform, allowing users to view and edit AI-generated content like code and text documents alongside their conversations.

Loop

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

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.

Aider

Aider is an open-source, AI-powered command-line tool designed for developers to collaboratively edit code in their local git repository using an interactive terminal interface.

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.