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blog.jim-nielsen.com

Craft and satisfaction

Satisfaction comes from arriving at a deeper, more intimate understanding of and relationship to what you’re working with

bencallahan.com

Bias in design systems

Discipline bias, product bias, tool bias, and more.

doc.cc

The unbearable lightness of big tech

Design can’t be effective when squeezed into a decades-old process.

charliedeets.com

Simple design

What value is simple design really providing me and my work?

tkalmi.dev

Fixing Vercel’s landing page

How to get rid of the Moiré pattern in Vercel’s landing page banner.

lukew.com

The evolution of AI products

The past three years really accelerated the evolution of "AI products"—from behind the scenes models to chat to agents.

wired.com

An oral history of WIRED’s original website

With HotWired, we introduced the world to the internet. Hyperlinks! Verticals! Banner ads! Cookies! Thirty years later, the hangover is real.

bit.ly

Design tokens go native—only in PenpotSponsored

Enjoy advanced features like string & numeric tokens, math operations, and more—made in collaboration with Tokens Studio by Hyma.

danramsden.com

The purpose of UX Design

The faith placed in “design thinking” now seems diverted into “product thinking.”

koomen.dev

AI horseless carriages

Why most AI features feel tacked-on and useless, even counter-productive.

alistapart.com

Build products that stick

Promising ideas can go from zero to hero in a few weeks, only to fizzle out within months.

winners.webbyawards.com

Webby awards winners

Discover the best of the Internet and uncover trends, insights and talent that define the future of Internet excellence.

smashingmagazine.com

Inclusive dark mode

Dark mode isn’t just a trendy aesthetic. It’s a gateway to more inclusive digital experiences, but only if designed thoughtfully.

medium.com

Design isn’t dead; you sound dumb

Design isn’t dead. Your understanding of it is. Though, let’s be real — was it ever actually alive in your mind to begin with?

uxdesign.cc

Everything’s a vibe: is it progress or just an illusion?

In a world where feeling productive replaces thinking deeply, are we innovating or just vibing our way into deceptive flow?

piccalil.li

How to write error messages that actually help users

One of the most consistently neglected parts of today’s user experiences is our handling of errors.

tempertemper.net

Skip links: what, why, and how

Ever noticed one of those “Skip to main content” links when you press the tab key? They’re important.

uxdesign.cc

Writing the onboarding experience

How to help a product introduce itself.

diataxis.fr

Diátaxis

A widely-adopted, pragmatic and systematic approach to thinking about and creating documentation.

beeps.website

Browser choice is an accessibility consideration

Let people use the browser they want, they probably have good reasons.