A conversation with Jony Ive
Designer Sir Jony Ive joins Stripe CEO Patrick Collison for a fireside chat at Stripe Sessions.
Tuesday05/13
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Chongqing, the world’s largest city, in pictures
The largest city in the world is as big as Austria, but few people have ever heard of it.
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Fridge poetry
Drag words around to make poems; leave them for others to find later and come back to see how people have changed the fridge.
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Venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more
Venture capital is moribund except AI. AI is moribund except OpenAI. OpenAI is a bit of a scam. Nobody can cash out.
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The truth about office politics
The frustration with C-level peers doing unexpected or unreasonable or department-centric things.
Monday05/12
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PDF To Design: from static PDF to editable FigmaSponsored
Convert any PDF into Figma designs, either as fully editable layers, or as pixel-perfect images.
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The anatomy of the letterform
Everything comes down to a foundational understanding of the anatomy of the letterform and its essential component.
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A portfolio you can listen to
An experiment in turning case studies into conversations—with a little help from AI. By Sujan, a Product Designer at Microsoft.
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AI-first: did Duolingo make a fatal mistake?
The “AI-first” approach that has caused controversy among users.
Friday05/09
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Product purgatory
When they love it but still don’t buy, and when even “free” is too expensive.
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Figma plugin: Follow the path
Automatically arrange objects along a vector path with customizable spacing and orientation options.
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Case study: Adobe rebrand
Adobe sought help from Mother Design in rethinking and codifying its brand system.
Thursday05/08
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24 artifacts that define craft
Artifacts that embody craft—something that speaks to our understanding of what it means to make with intention.
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A simple, free tilemap editor
Design your tilemap with Sprite Fusion, the ultimate free online level editor.
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Getting things “done” in large tech companies
How can you finish things in a world where you can keep improving systems indefinitely?
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WCAG 3.0’s proposed scoring model
Prioritizing usability over compliance and shifting the focus toward the quality of access rather than the mere presence of features.
Wednesday05/07
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Figma courses
A gallery of introductory courses provided by Figma—so you can design with confidence.
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Design tokens name generator
Generate and manage design tokens for your design system.
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One million chessboards
Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns.
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The brand styleguide showcase
Handpicked curated brand guidelines from around the world.
Tuesday05/06
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I’d rather read the prompt
As an instructor, I am always saddened to read my students' LLM-generated assignments.
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Craft and satisfaction
Satisfaction comes from arriving at a deeper, more intimate understanding of and relationship to what you’re working with
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We can't talk about AI without talking about capitalism, fascism, and liberty
Promises alone create a future; enough capital, deployed with enough conviction, warps reality around it.
Monday05/05
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HTML to Design becomes the fastest MCP server for FigmaSponsored
Plug in Claude or Cursor AI and create or edit your designs directly in Figma. No switching, no copy-paste.
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The unbearable lightness of big tech
Design can’t be effective when squeezed into a decades-old process.
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