Sneaking

The deceptive UX pattern you never saw coming.

PWA icons for all platforms/devices

Progressive Web Apps require a set of three icons.

Icon usability

When and how to evaluate digital icons.

Crafting QR codes

How QR codes work and how to customize them.

Exploring the AI solution space

AI is powerful if used well, but what does ‘well’ mean?

“When you don’t hear from teams using your design system, we’ve learned over the years that it’s typically not a sign of ‘everything is going great’ but ‘something is probably wrong.’”

Introducing Adobe Content Authenticity

A web app that helps creators protect their work.

Using movement to guide user behaviors

The many ways movement can power UX design.

Colors for race, ethnicity, and world regions

What to consider when choosing colors for cultural diversity.

BBC Sound Effects

An archive with 33,000+ clips from across the world.

Photo Edit Tools

Handy tools to bulk edit digital photos and images.

Player Style

Themes for video/audio players, built for many frameworks.

Component spec

Why the delivery of design system components matters.

How to pair fonts

Considerations for selecting and combining fonts.

MynaUI Icons

A large and rich collection of open-source icons.

Adobe Photoshop 2025 updates

New features and announcements from Adobe MAX 2024.

UX Strategy Kit

Digital product development methods for your business.

PicLooks

AI-generated profile pictures for your designs.

The user experience of developer tools

Key learnings from years of designing for developers.

Choice is not the enemy

“Let’s ditch the ‘don’t make me think’ mindset.”

How I organize variables in Figma

Managing variables in the design tool requires many decisions.

What makes a font accessible?

Selecting the right font goes beyond aesthetics.

VTracer

A web tool to turn raster images into vector graphics.

Design systems glossaries and primitive tokens

The ideas driving conversations about design systems.

Color fonts

A selection of COLR, COLRv1, and OpenType-SVG fonts.

Adobe made its painting app completely free

Fresco users no longer require a subscription.

Simplifying design system documentation

Where to start and how to approach it.

just build things

A collection of handy web tools for digital creators.

Pelicans on a bicycle

How AI models handle something they weren’t trained on.

Figma vs. Canva

When and why you might choose one over the other.

Managing multi-library design systems

How can we orchestrate similar UI libraries?

Calculating the ROI of your design system

An inspiring selection of some practical approaches.

Penpot plugins

Discover plugins for the popular open-source design tool.

Woah, opacity!

How opacity can simplify your design process.

A good design is a good essay

UX design isn’t just solving problems; it’s making a case.

Designing for Gen Z

Why standard design advice for Gen Z might not work.

Using constraints in Figma

How they help us build adaptive interfaces.

The power of accessible products

“Accessible design isn’t designing for everyone; it’s designing for anyone.”

State of Designer-Developer Collaboration 2024

36% of engineers vs. 10% of designers say teamwork is smooth.

S.Y.N.C.

Ensuring navigation consistency in complex platforms.

A new home for Pixelmator

Apple has signed a deal to acquire the image editor company.

Flexible Typesetting is now yours

The classic web typography book is freely available.

Practical visual collaboration in 10 minutes

The essentials to cultivate visual collaboration.

Web design inspiration

A collection of websites to spark your creativity.

Designing for decision making

The psychology of choice in digital spaces.

Beautifully crafted animated icons

A collection of dynamic icons available as open-source.

Your UI designs suck

Tools that will help you find UI flaws and issues.

Alternatives to typical tech visuals

Intriguing ways to present technical data/information.

UI Fonts

Test font pairings for your design needs in real time.

MingCute

A vast and versatile open-source icon library.

Goodbye 4px spacing, hello Fibonacci

A fresh perspective on spacing systems in design.

Don’t forget to localize your icons

It can undermine the trust you’re trying to build.

Should destructive buttons be hard to find?

“We’re all prone to misapplying a rule or two.”

Choosing the right words for effective UX

What to consider when naming global website elements.

The 2024 UX Tools Map

An illustrated guide to the UX software landscape.

Landing page templates

A collection of pre-designed web page layouts.

The joy of accidentally weird-looking websites

Why proper fallback fonts make a difference.

Design systems Q&A

A session on modern design system practices.

Using auto layout in Figma

How to create responsive and robust components.

Checkout UX 2024

“Most sites have a long way to go to improve checkout UX.”

The root causes for the development-design mismatch

“Product designers will have to give up their beloved free-form canvas.”

Types of disability

Overview of seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking disabilities.

AI’s transformative impact on web design

Supercharging productivity across the industry.

Clashing colors in UI/UX design

How we can use them mindfully and effectively.

Click, type, find

Search bars are far more than icons and inputs.

The future of design

How AI is shifting designers from makers to curators.

The semantic interface palette is simple

How semantic layers enhance color palettes.

Uncomfortable truths of design systems

Design systems are powerful, but not perfect.

Free Mockups

High quality mockups to showcase your products.

Subscriptions are killing creativity in design

“We cannot afford to let subscription models dictate our futures.”

Type scale graphs

Utopia’s fluid-type scale calculator gets a visualizer.

How to use grayscale

A quick way to check accessibility and visual design.

Are icon fonts a bad practice?

What’s certain is that SVG icons are the better choice.

Never trust AI type

AI’s struggle with typography, illustrated by an example.

The sorry state of states

Figma assets need better design-code alignment.

Figma’s first draft AI feature

The design tools’ AI isn’t what you might think.

Authors Together

The new homes of classic A Book Apart books.

Stop wireframing

Why wireframes are outdated and what to use today.

Beware the ‘early Januaries’ content pattern

User-provided data can be unevenly distributed.

Gauge Generator

An online tool to quickly create beautiful gauges.

Stop saying ‘Learn more’

How to create buttons that convert visitors into patrons.

Sustainable font choices in digital design

“More sustainable fonts are also more legible and accessible.”

The State of UX in 2025

Design control is shifting to stakeholders and algorithms.

The next era of design is intent-driven

How adaptive UIs are transforming user-centered design.

Another year, another Figma pricing update

“They’re forcing you to buy products you probably don’t need.”

Stop building features ‘for exposure’

Great UX design doesn’t ensure valuable outcomes.

How to figure out good color palettes

A guide to color palettes for data visualizations.

‘Experience Design’ is better than ‘Product Design’

“It might be the best term we came up with so far.”

Color Buddy

A phenomenal tool for creating and checking color palettes.

Penpot’s upcoming business model

The approach of the open-source Figma alternative.

Bringing more magic to Bing Image Creator

Bing now lets you make images via the search bar.

Where did all the design grids go?

Modern design tools simplify life but dull the basics.

Why I’m excited about ‘text-box-trim’

How a new CSS capability will boost our designs.

Every design token is a feature

“Like features, tokens can create little piles of technical debt.”

Blog of the .Day

Explore the indie web, one blog at a time.

Geometric patterns

A collection of Xmas, flower, and line patterns.

Starry Sky

Create night sky patterns for social media and websites.

Colorspace

A web tool for generating consistent color swatches.

The design leader dilemma

“We need to redefine our role from implementor to enabler.”

Has ROI killed UX?

Why measuring UX in dollars misses the bigger picture.