One-sided borders with rounded corners
A PSA for card designers everywhere.
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Designing for the medium
You don’t need to code. But you should know the medium.
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Spatial orientation on small screens
Mobile screens are small, but the spaces they suggest are not. A visual reference to 5 common navigation patterns and the spatial mental models they create.
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Designing like a UI engineer
Why building a UI from a visual reference requires interpretation, not reproduction—and an 8-step process for thinking about it differently.
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Come on in
Non-engineers are already in our repos. It’s time to build environments that welcome them.
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Relearning the basics
Learning isn’t a feeling. Some advice from a teacher on staying sharp while working with robots.
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Pretty much
“Make it pretty” goes deeper than you think. How a dismissive phrase became encoded in our tools, roles, and processes.
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Codeplay
Designers in our new coding course are making unexpectedly playful, exploratory work. Why?
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Go make things
Advice and wishes for the wave of new makers building end-to-end products for the first time.
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Skills I think matter most right now
You’re already reading one of them.
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To code?
Would you take the plunge into writing code with an LLM at your side?
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Figma discontent
Content should not be a second-class citizen in the world’s leading design tool.
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Design starts earlier than you think
Relationships, stakeholders, processes, responsibilities, and goals are all design materials.
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Keep the change
Change and progress are not synonymous. A reminder to interrogate where your excitement comes from.