Nov 17 2025

Andy Budd - How Designers Should Ask For (And Receive) High-Quality Feedback

It’s fairly common to see designers complain about the poor quality feedback they’ve received from stakeholders or clients. “They literally told me to make the logo bigger!” they might joke, or, “Th

Evergreen , Design

Nov 17 2025

Preethi Sam - How To Animate Along A Path In CSS

Let’s talk about progress indicators — or loaders. It’s true that there are so many tutorials about them and even more examples floating around CodePen. There was a time just a couple of years ago w

Techniques , Css , Design

Nov 17 2025

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s CSS Grid Layout: Designing With Superpowers

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at Penpot whose mission is to provide an open-source and open-standards platform to bring collaboration between designers and developers

workflow , Graphics , Tools , Apps , ui

Nov 17 2025

Daniel Yuschick - Keys To An Accessibility Mindset

How many times have you heard this when asking about web accessibility? “It’s something we’d like to do more of, but we don’t have the time or know-how.” From a broad perspective, web accessibility

Accessibility , User Experience , Design

Nov 17 2025

Frederick O’Brien - An Ode To Side Project Time

There seemed to be a hot minute when the tech industry understood the value of idle tinkering and made a point of providing ‘side project time’ as an explicit working perk. The concept endures — I’m

workflow , Inspiration , Career , Opinion Column

Nov 17 2025

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 2)

Welcome back to my long read about building better components — components that are more likely to be found, understood, modified, and updated in ways that promote adoption rather than abandonment.

Design System , Figma , Design

Nov 17 2025

Slava Shestopalov - A Comprehensive Checklist For Running Design Workshops

The more workshops you organize, the better you realize how similar they actually are, regardless of the methodology or tool used. I would like to share a comprehensive checklist that will help you

workflow , ux , Communication , Business

Nov 17 2025

Lyndon Cerejo - From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant

In “A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer”, Kate stumbled her way through an AI-augmented sprint (coffee was chugged, mistakes were made). In “Prompting Is A Design Act”, we introduced WIRE

workflow , ux , AI , Design

Nov 17 2025

Victor Yocco - Connecting With Users: Applying Principles Of Communication To UX Research

Communication is in everything we do. We communicate with users through our research, our design, and, ultimately, the products and services we offer. UX practitioners and those working on digital p

User Research , ux , Communication

Nov 17 2025

Paul Boag - How To Get Work Done: Wrangling Stakeholders And Overcoming Obstacles

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I could build a website from beginning to end by myself with nobody interfering. I would create the content, design the look and feel, and write the code.

workflow , Communication , Business