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The context window is where AI behaviour is shaped, before any user touches the interface. Someone is designing it, just not designers. This is a huge opportunity for the discipline.

Why legacy software is successful software, how to survive a modernization project, and how to design for, with and around messy legacy systems.

A component library gives you parts. A design system carries the decisions that make a product feel coherent.

A mental model for thinking about all the big changes that are happening as a single transition

Matthew Butterick

Last week at Microsoft Build, Jessie Lorenz, Carie Fisher, and I gave a short talk on a question every AI-enabled product team should be asking: can your AI pass the accessibility test? The core…

On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.

An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.

Avoid the fraught model that will set your design system back.

An agent reads your design system through the Storybook components manifest, and the manifest is a lossy copy. Oversight is an addon that lints it and tells you what never made it in.

AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.

In a column in January about the paradox of work, I recalled the immortal Douglas Adams joke about working conditions: the hours are good, but “most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy”. The jok…

When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations were run manually, too. Developing good software is…

Last week at Microsoft Build, Jessie Lorenz, Carie Fisher, and I gave a short talk on a question every AI-enabled product team should be asking: can your AI pass the accessibility test? The core…

Our quest to build a scalable, LLM-safe design system

How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product

carlsz.dev — Personal Blog

Keeping up with a fast changing, revolutionary technology can seem scary. Here are some ruthless guidelines to make sense of it effectively.

Statistical significance helps establish whether a result is reliable, while practical significance helps determine whether it is worth acting on.

AI-generated UX often feels simply 'wrong.' Human skills in anticipatory design and user flows are crucial to combat the 'uncanny valley' of AI UX

Last week, I read a story about how Waymo (self-driving taxi service) is partnering with Door Dash (food delivery service). And it surprised me. I was genuinely shocked. I couldn’t believe it.…

Slots give you the ability to customize components without breaking the system. We’re sharing five field-tested tips from early users to help you unlock more freedom without giving up control.

Jon Kolko; design strategy, education and writing.

Before writing code, dialog with progressive levels of design alignment

Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.

A multitudes study which followed 500 developers found an interesting soundbyte: “Engineers merged 27% more PRs with AI - but did 20% more out-of-hours commits”.

This post first appeared on Addy Osmani’s Elevate Substack newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission.TL;DR: Aim for a clear

A lot to unpack here, but first let me stress the difference between the AI investment bubble bursting, the AI hype train derailing, and any chance that AI is going to disappear from your life. All…

Coding agents are writing and modifying front-end code at scale. If your team maintains a design...

Agent design patterns.

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

There's nothing about progress that inherently requires disruption — except our inability to cooperate for stability.

AI coding tools are only as good as the constraints you give them. Design systems aren't competing with AI, they're the infrastructure AI needs to do its job well.

Software is problem ownership

Although design systems promise consistency, most still fail without someone actively enforcing the rules and making teams follow them.

Designing how models behave

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

A step-by-step, in-depth guide to using the Kano Model to prioritize your backlog for customer satisfaction and delight

Today's startup MVP is about iterating early to build the highest quality competitor to an existing idea, not validating a novel one. This journey involves refining early ideas to compete in an…

Handcrafted recipes to get you started with everything UX — user research, design, usability testing, and more. We're always cooking up new recipes, so check back frequently!

Keyboard shortcuts occupy a strange area for web design.

Specifications, in plain speech.

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Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.