The RAAEE product metrics

“What users click” is just the tip of the iceberg.

Color palettes from B-movie posters

How bold palettes can drive modern websites.

Fliiipbook

A delightful GIF animation editor for the web.

SVG Shield Badge Shapes

Certificate/badge motifs for your website footer.

User-friendly forms with layered drawers

Where forms get complex, drawers simplify the path.

Icons for “save”

Is the floppy disk metaphor still appropriate today?

Penpot Variants are coming

Get ready for a key feature of the design tool.

Better notifications UX

Timing matters, and so do timely notifications.

When Figma starts designing us

”The best design work rarely starts with order.”

We’ll all be design engineers in a year

“Generalists will own the future.”

Glass3D generator

Compose stylish frosted glass effects in CSS.

RapidRAW

An open-source alternative to Adobe Lightroom.

Designing scroll behavior

When should browsers remember a user’s scroll position?

UX design for left-handed people

How to include the 10% who are left-handed.

Design patterns for AI interfaces

A simple approach to designing AI experiences.

Sensory verbs in digital products

How your wording might quietly exclude users.

Why MCP matters to UX designers

When the experience goes outside the application.

Using Claude Code for information architecture

What if we use the AI tool for content, not code?

You’re a user but not your user

“You’re not the user you should design for.”

“Web design today is more polished than ever—but in all that polish, we’ve smoothed out a lot of the personality. We’ve traded quirks for conventions and spontaneity for systems.”

Improving design critiques

What most designers struggle with and how to fix it.

Color shopping list

“Do you know where I can find some ‘chartreuse’?”

Is Figma Make ready for handoffs?

Figma Make and Anima as design-to-code tools.

Top 10 UI annoyances

Common usability flaws of modern interfaces.

Protect your creativity from idea killers

When you’re tired of hearing “That won’t work.”

Designing a grid-aware website

Where digital design meets energy availability.

Design is moving to the front of the stack

”The era of code-first design is here.”

Design struggles to be born

“Design is not a delivery process, but a leadership skill.”

New Photoshop innovations for creators

Project collections, image harmonization, upscale, and more.

Web content best practices

A 22-point checklist and an AI audit prompt.

Design system deviation is a signal

Ways to track if something in the system needs care.

Landing pages that sell

The anatomy of high-converting landing pages.

Inclusive personas and user research

“Disability is too big to be reduced to a set of personas.”

Building custom blog post designs

A way to tailor the mood and style of each article.

Kompressor

A smart and powerful image converter/compressor.

Horizontal scrolling containers?

How they can compromise content accessibility.

Mobile and desktop recognizability

How much design variation is acceptable?

Who says design needs a mouse?

Figma introduces accessibility features for keyboard users.

The current state of skeleton screens

”Loading screens are not fooling anyone anymore.”

Comic book layouts

What if web design were more like a comic book?

Tiny Awards 2025 finalists

Vote for your favorite handmade website.

12 heuristics for content design

What they are and how to evaluate them.

The moral illusion of inclusive design

When good intentions lead to unquestioned power.

UI Design with Penpot

A 10-hour video course to get you started.

What’s next for design tools

”Design tools aren’t just for designers anymore.”

All humans, always

How to get the robots to dance for you.

The AI age is the “age of no consent”

“The computer’s hallucinated word is final.”

Obra Icons

1000+ versatile icons with multiple weights and sizes.

The sensemaker’s guide to taxonomies

The practice of classifying things into categories.

How I approach motion in product design

A framework to design animated user interfaces.

PixiEditor

An all-in-one editor for your 2D designs.

Highlighting used components on a page

A new way to audit design system usage.

Sketching with AI?

Think with your hands first, without AI.

From grief to exec

How AI is disrupting design systems.

The beauty of a text-only webpage

“You’re contributing to a simple, calm, and happier internet.”

html.to.design

Convert a website into editable Figma designs.

Stress test data for web projects

Some go-to test data to push designs to the limits.

Affinity mapping that doesn’t suck

A powerful way to distill your research findings.

“Memorable websites aren’t just trendy. They’re accessible.”

AI pitfalls for product designers

How to avoid wasting time with AI prototypes.

Universal design vs. inclusive design

Two ways of achieving digital/physical accessibility.

Designing the future of reading

“Skimming isn’t the death of reading, it’s the beginning.”

Newsletter-blog vs. blog-newsletter

Which publishing approach should you choose?

Woolean

Rank anything together through pairwise voting.

Unique sites, but not always accessible

The hidden accessibility costs of nonstop motion.

Raycast for designers

How the toolkit can simplify a designer’s daily tasks.

Mitigating groupthink in workshops

Some facilitation methods to overcome mediocre ideas.

AI design systems with MCP

When the system starts to think with you.

The first rule of ARIA

Benefits of sticking with built-in HTML controls.

Product images with Gemini 2.5 Flash

How to create consistent images for a product.

The history of themeable user interfaces

Let’s learn from the past to inform our future.

“Your” vs. “My” in user interfaces

A simple rule of thumb for when to use each.

Nordic Design Gallery

Web design inspirations from Nordic countries.

LosslessCut

A versatile tool for lossless video/audio editing.

UX fatigue

When your website asks for too much.

Inclusive products are green products

How inclusive design principles foster sustainability.

Designing for ephemerality

The value of building with the product’s end in mind.

Why confetti celebrations backfire

“It’s not the confetti that makes a celebration work.”

Adobe’s new free Premiere app

Available soon on iOS, coming to Android later.

You don’t need animations

Know when and how to use animations.

The good, the bad, and the iffy

Is there such a thing as an ethical designer?

Atlas of Space

An interactive visualization of the solar system.

Classic Mac patterns

The original 8×8-pixel black and white patterns.

Google Nano Banana techniques

Advanced image editing with Gemini Flash Image.

Auditing design systems for accessibility

How to fix accessibility issues at the system-level.

Flags Overflow

Easily compare the best country flag icon libraries.

“We call this design theater: the minimal application of user-centered design processes and principles to cover up a process centered entirely on stakeholder whims.”

“Shout-out to the client who just sent me a mockup titled ‘temporary final’.”

Why joy sustains serious work

How design details make hard work feel lighter.

Accessible writing techniques

How your web content reaches more people.

The design of shallow thinking

How can we design more enlightening digital spaces?

SearchSystem

A living collection of references and tools for designers.

Path to CSS Shape

Convert SVG path data to CSS shape() function.

AI style guides for product copy

When machines choose not to follow the rules.

Ditch those words

“It’s the fastest way to make a design more easily understood.”

Design System Awards 2025

The finalists of this year’s submissions.

Designing confirmation dialogs

How to craft dialogs that enhance user trust.

I’m not a robot

Take your CAPTCHA experience to the next level.

Innovation by Design 2025

The winners of Fast Company’s annual design awards.

World Illustration Awards 2025

The winners of the renowned illustration awards.