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vercel.com

The rise of the AI crawler

How ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI crawlers process web content, including JavaScript rendering, assets, and other behavior and patterns.

frontendmasters.com

Responsive tables & readable paragraphs

You can make a table responsive by letting it horizontally scroll. But if you do that, make sure paragraph style isn’t any wider than the screen.

designlobster.substack.com

Shibui design

The unexpected richness of simplicity.

bostonreview.net

The AI we deserve

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

designweek.co.uk

Ten takes: what is the best design of 2024?

From a theatre rebrand to a luxury space suit, ten designers pick their favourite work of the past 12 months.

blog.google

Whisk: remix ideas using images and AI

Whisk is a new Google Labs experiment that lets you prompt using images for a fast and fun creative process.

erikgahner.dk

AI will be dead in five years

There is this joke that people do statistics in R, machine learning in Python, and AI in PowerPoint. (I did not say it is a funny joke.)

medium.com

2024 Smith & Diction year in review

It started off slow. Like…..I guess the robot uprising is here, kind of slow. And honestly, it shook us quite a bit.

chrome.dev

CSS wrapped 2024

Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome and the web platform in 2024.

martinfowler.com

Design token-based UI architecture

Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation.

shiftmag.dev

Pushing developers to start their engine vs pushing them off a cliff

How do you determine whether to motivate your colleague towards progress or to respect their autonomy?

dive.club

UI Patterns for generative AI

Types of UI that will be relevant moving forward.

jarango.com

The resurgence of plain text in the age of AI

Reflections on the advantages of plain text and why it matters when working with LLMs.

figma.com

27 Figjam activities

Looking for ways to shake up your teaching? These collaborative templates help students connect, create, and learn together.

isometricshot.com

IsometricShot

Create beautiful isometric screenshots of your designs.

informationisbeautiful.net

Per second vibrations

Distilling the world’s data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations.

x.com

Organizing Figma files

Since @raphaelschaad's talk at Config, I've been using this matrix to organize my Figma files, and I honestly won't go back to anything else.

onemillionscreenshots.com

One million screenshots

Explore the web’s biggest homepage. Discover similar sites. See changes over time. Get web data.

figma.com

Free presentation templates for Figma Slides

Deliver polished, engaging presentations with these presentation templates in Figma Slides.

sourcegraph.com

The death of the stubborn developer

How stubborn developers are getting left behind by refusing to adopt chat-oriented programming (CHOP) as their primary development approach.