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pentagram.com

Guggenheim rebrand

Visual identity for the constellation of global art museums.

pictographic.io

Pictographic

The illustration dictionary for design.

zarar.dev

Good software development habits

Writing down what's working for me helps me maintain any good habits I've worked hard to develop.

arp242.net

Against best practices

I have come to believe that by and large “best practices” are doing more harm than good.

uxdesign.cc

AI + Hermes (speed) worship

Tech’s obsession with speed and how it has the potential to strip quality and craft in Design.

playbook.ebay.com

eBay Playbook

eBay Evo is our brand and design system, created so we show up consistently all around the world with the flexibility to strengthen local relevance.

anderegg.ca

Maybe Bluesky has “won”

One upside of all this terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky.

behavioralscientist.org

Instead of being cynical, try becoming skeptical

Cynicism and skepticism are often confused for each other, but they couldn’t be more different.

medium.com

Why do we need a design system?

Having the GOV.UK Design System negates the need for any other UK Government design systems. Or does it?

x.com

Designing an agent that designs

Transcript of a talk I gave last week, on turning our AI coding agent into a designer.

khoslaventures.com

How to hire

Identifying whether a role is for value creation or protection should be the first fulcrum upon which the remainder of your process rests.

carly.substack.com

Who will train tomorrow’s designers?

On mentorship, AI, and the uncertain future of entry-level design roles.

neurodiversity.design

Neurodiversity design system

The NDS is a coherent set of standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and user experience design for Learning Management Systems.

recraft.ai

Recraft: an infinite AI artboard

Premium image generation and editing tool. Store and share your own styles, create, fine-tune, upscale, and perfect your visuals.

chrbutler.com

Know what you need

Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier.

github.com

Sunlight streaming in through the window (in CSS)

A pure css implementation of some sunlight streaming in through the window - jackyzha0/sunlit

paul.kinlan.me

Will we care about frameworks in the future?

Paul is a Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google and loves to help make web development easier.

mtlynch.io

Lessons from my first exit

My takeaways from selling TinyPilot.

motion.dev

Framer Motion is now independent, introducing Motion

Framer Motion is now independent. Introducing Motion, a new animation library for React and all JavaScript environments.

ben-mini.github.io

IMG_0416

Between 2009-2012, iPhones included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app.