Web Developer Tools & Resources
Creating user interfaces for expert users, such as engineers or administrators, often requires additional principles on top of universal ones.
Starting a creative venture with no money can be challenging, but it’s definitely possible with the right approach and mindset.
Today we have something special for you: 12 awesome animated 3D objects that you can use for free in your projects. Created with React Three Fiber and GSAP, these animations are easy to integrate and perfect for adding a bit of flair to your website.
How to use Adobe Experience Manager Assets with Content Hub to tap into the power of Generative AI.
Looking for ways to make your videos stand out? Brighten up your social media and video projects with our curated selection of light leak transitions, effects, and templates.
This week’s issue we’re stepping back and exploring the surprising value of useless things. We’re admiring the whimsical Eames-designed Solar Do-Nothing Machine and questioning what the right balance is between function and emotion. Sometimes in design, it’s the things that are hard to justify rationally that matter the most.
In my experience of building and supporting UX teams, most of them are significantly under-resourced. In fact, the term “team” can often be a stretch, with many user experience professionals finding themselves alone in their roles.
Hello friends, if you are preparing for System design interviews then one concept you must prepare is load balancing algorithms.
In this video, we explore the most popular and powerful libraries that make creating stunning animations a breeze. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, these tools will help you add dynamic and engaging elements to your website effortlessly.
We know how hard it is to choose the right agency for your web design project. With our expertise, we can guide you through this process with confidence.
From June 11–13, the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) held its second face-to-face meeting of the year in Coruña, Spain, with a long agenda of new features and improvements coming to language.
I’ve switched up my note-taking app a few times over the years
Becoming a team leader in UX design is not only a big responsibility but also a great opportunity to develop your leadership skills and contribute to the success of your team and company.
As the digital landscape evolves, UI/UX designers continually seek tools that streamline workflows and enhance creativity. Chrome extensions have become indispensable for designers, offering a range of functionalities right from the browser.
Dribbble’s mission is to help professional designers earn a living doing work they take pride in. The primary objective of everything we do — every new feature, policy, and campaign — is to maximize the number of users searching, interacting, and transacting through our platform.
Amid this AI gold rush, many of us find ourselves grappling with questions that have only grown more complex since I last wrote about this topic: How will these technologies reshape our roles? What new skills do we need to develop? And perhaps most pressingly, where is all of this actually going?
Learning to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney is no longer just a job skill. These tools are now part of our everyday lives.
Everything changes. Change is the only constant in this Universe, as Heraclitus of Ephesus famously stated over 2,500 years ago. It’s intriguing how a concept so ancient still eludes many today. In the realm of business, whether as a freelancer or an entrepreneur, your primary goal should always be growth.
As UX professionals, we constantly face the challenge of making our designs intuitive and easy to use. A key aspect of this is discoverability — the extent to which users can find and understand the features and functionality of an interface.
As a digital entrepreneur myself, I’ve spent a good chunk of my life exploring the nooks and crannies of the digital marketplace.
Welcome to the best websites where to find examples and ideas for web design inspiration. Use them to identify layout styles and color schemes that you like. Quickly get over creator’s block and start filling that blank page.
Choosing WordPress to power your website is a smart move. You’ll gain access to a world of themes, plugins, and possibilities.
In the realm of digital art, Photoshop brushes are the unsung heroes that bring illustrations to life. Whether you’re sketching, painting, or adding intricate details, the right brush can be a game-changer in achieving the desired effect.
As Adobe’s bug bounty programs continue to evolve, we seek to collaborate with more security researchers across the globe to help make a positive impact on securing the digital world at scale. Adobe offers two (2) bug bounty programs: a private bug bounty program, where proven hackers are offered exclusive access and incentives, and a public vulnerability disclosure program (VDP), which is open to everyone.
A robust and well-managed infrastructure is the backbone of a successful digital product.
Web design tips from the Daylight Computer’s viral new landing page – including tips on visual interest, cohesion, typography, copywriting, icons, and more.
Audio descriptions involve narrating contextual visual information in images or videos, improving user experiences, especially for those who rely on audio cues.
In this article, we take you behind the scenes to explore the creation process of an intriguing animation.
Classic 8-bit fonts are perfect for capturing the essence of the 80s and 90s digital era. They evoke a sense of nostalgia and fun, instantly transporting viewers to the golden age of video gaming.
Apple. Nike. McDonalds. Coca Cola. These are the brands we think about when we talk about timeless logos. Iconic logos. Logos that outlast a generation.
Let me show you how to create infinite marquees with the GSAP JavaScript animation library. This is a common UX pattern I’m sure you’ve seen on plenty of sites.
One of the most important aspects of digital art is the selection of color. Color can transform a piece, set the tone, and create harmony. Color choice is not just about aesthetics but also about improving your artwork’s overall composition and cohesion.
Anyone involved with a design department often encounters complex, unfamiliar abbreviations or terms. It’s common to end up Googling and reading articles to understand exactly how UX differs from UI and CX, what a product ecosystem is, and what service design entails. In this article, I’ll break down all these terms, explaining their origins, meanings, and usage areas. When you grasp the terminology, the processes become clearer, and your experience...
As a designer, working on your own product can really boost your skills across the board—client work included. Here’s what I learned from doing just that as Design Director at Moze and Hellotime.
Design and software development projects have life cycles — which span from the project conception to completion. And the two most common types of life cycles are linear and iterative.
WCAG provides guidance for making interactive elements more accessible by specifying minimum size requirements. In fact, the requirements are documented in two Success Criteria: 2.5.5 and 2.5.8. Despite this, WCAG can be difficult to achieve due to a number of misconceptions about the requirements. In this article, Eric Bailey discusses the nuances of interactive element sizes and clarifies what it looks like to provide accessible interactive experiences using WCAG-compliant target...
I’ve written before about the importance of establishing a successful design system governance model. In fact, I created and published a design system governance diagram that spells out all of the gory details that can go into governing and releasing design systems.
Get inspired by insights from the developers behind three add-ons that use AI to enable users to create engaging content for their projects.
In the world of social media, people tend to focus on the biggest platform, which would be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, or TikTok. However, designers looking to promote their work and getting inspired by others’ work should seriously consider using Pinterest.
Discover a variety of dark pattern examples, sorted by category, to better understand deceptive design practices.
One of the most crucial aspects of UI design is spacing. Proper spacing can make a design look clean, organized, and easy to navigate.
Here’s a quick and easy way to get the color code of anything displayed on your Mac’s screen without installing any eyedroppers or color-picking tools.
Modern CSS makes styling HTML tables in a considered, responsive nature a breeze. Michelle Barker breaks it all down for you in this deep dive.
The new CSS Color 4 specification has added a new oklch() notation for declaring colors. In this post, we explain why this is important for design systems and color palettes.
Microsoft has introduced Designer, an AI-driven application that assists users in creating and editing various visual content. The platform offers a range of features including image generation, editing, and design customization.
Go Fiber and Gin are two popular web application frameworks that rely on Go’s standard library. They provide extensive toolkits we can use to develop high-performance apps with modern features.
Get ready for a CSS power-up! The @property rule, part of the CSS Houdini umbrella of APIs, is now fully supported across all modern browsers. This game-changing feature unlocks new levels of control and flexibility for CSS custom properties (also known as CSS variables), making your stylesheets smarter and more dynamic.
Learn from the best—design experts reveal exactly what they look for in a portfolio. Get ready to transform your career from aspiring designer to in-demand professional!
The world of design is constantly evolving, and staying updated is essential for any creative. An excellent way to deepen your knowledge, techniques, and trends is through reading.
For web designers and developers, design systems are a familiar concept but not all are equal, composability serves as a great way to evaluate a design system’s effectiveness.
Svelte has always been a delightful, simple, and fun framework to use. It’s a framework that’s always prioritized developer experience (DX), while producing a light and fast result with minimal JavaScript. It achieves this nice DX by giving users dirt simple idioms and a required compiler that makes everything work. Unfortunately, it used to be fairly easy to break Svelte’s reactivity. It doesn’t matter how fast a website is if it’s...
After seeing so many posts on Twitter on how Anthropic Artifacts (Claude AI) can build mini apps, games, and even Figma plugins in no time at all, I had so many questions!
Today, I want to share new designs, resources, and news for UX/UI designers to help you stay more productive and bring new design solutions to your colleagues and clients.
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of a webpage on the internet. Aside from just pointing to a page, URLs can also contain information that can be used to modify a webpage. For example, we can use a page URL to scroll to a certain section on a page or set a user token for authentication.
At Config 2024, we announced Make Designs, a Figma AI feature that allows you to spin up a first draft of a UI design based on design systems alongside a simple prompt. By using design system components, we ensured the feature-generated designs that followed a consistent set of patterns and could be easily customized and styled using the tools professional designers already love. Shortly after launching Make Designs in limited...
In today’s turbulent landscape of design, Penpot stands out with its commitment to open-source, free unlimited access, and its unique, robust features. An example could be its new components system that takes another leap forward in aligning design with code. Let’s dive into how it empowers both designers and developers to create more maintainable and scalable design systems.
Delivering an exceptional customer experience today requires data — lots of it — and traditionally, brands have used a combination of data they collect themselves, so-called “first-party” data and data they collect from external sources, “second” or “third-party data.” Much of this external data has been collected from third-party cookies, tracking placed on websites to collect user data.
Discover our selection of the best Web Design tools and websites, and search above for even more handpicked resources.
The world of UI/UX design is often mistaken for pure visual artistry. While aesthetics do play a role, there’s a powerful blend of creative thinking and technical expertise that goes into crafting exceptional user experiences. Let’s delve deeper and decode the art and science behind UI/UX design.
Welcome to this July’s collection of tools, gathered from around the web over the past month. We hope you’ll find something here to make work just that little bit easier. Enjoy!
In this tutorial, we’ll construct a card UI design and discuss different CSS ways for smoothly revealing the content of each card on hover.
In this monthly roundup, we highlight the top AI news stories from June.
CSS mask animation is a powerful way to enhance the visual appeal of web pages. It allows developers to create intricate animations and effects that improve user experience and add a touch of creativity to web pages. In this guide, we’ll dive deep into the world of CSS mask animations, exploring everything from the basics to advanced techniques. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or starting this comprehensive guide will help you master...
A proven, comprehensive guide to design system maturity and growth beyond accessibility, interaction design and digital branding.
After almost a decade of working on digital products across various industries, meeting almost 100+ leading designers from different fields, and going through 10,000+ portfolios in the last 3 years of Fluidesigns, our founder astutely recognized a recurring pattern of feedback. This invaluable insight emerged as a guiding compass when empowering both aspiring and seasoned designers to elevate their Product Design prowess, specifically in the realm of UI/UX Design.
Web design tips from the Daylight Computer’s viral new landing page 𥠖 including tips on visual interest, cohesion, typography, copywriting, icons, and more.
Bauhaus is one of the most popular design trends known for its unique, abstract style that has inspired many creative designs from brand identities to marketing materials and more
How much do UX Researchers make? Get the data on UXR, Product Designer, and Research Ops salaries in 2024, plus key UX salary trends around the world.
The icons are designed to be displayed at 24 x 24 dp (density-independent pixels), ensuring optimal clarity and detail.
These days, large companies are trying to stake a claim. Social media has been doing this for years. And now artificial intelligence (AI) is putting the practice into overdrive.
When it comes to making a bold, emphatic statement, nothing says it quite like all-caps fonts. If you’re on the hunt for the boldest, most striking typefaces that instantly command attention, this post is just for you.
We are excited to share a new immersive 3D website for Noomo Labs — a place for cutting-edge immersive experiences, 3D websites, AR activations, and interactive web experiences.
This in-depth guide takes you through the three crucial phases of conversational search, revealing how users express their needs, explore results, and refine their queries. Learn how AI agents can overcome communication barriers, personalize the search experience, and adapt to evolving user intent. Discover practical strategies and real-world examples to guide your development of intuitive, effective, and user-centric conversational interfaces.
Shadergradient is a new tool to create beautiful, moving gradients. Available on Figma, Framer, and as React component.
Hello friends, if you are preparing for system design interviews then it make sense to prepare for Microservices design patterns as well, not just to do well on interviews or make your architecture more robust but also to understand existing projects.
Whether you went through a bootcamp, switched from another research-related career or were self-taught, there’s a good chance that you like some research methods over others.
Want your Photoshop images to look like professional watercolor paintings, but don’t want to spend hours editing? In this post, we’ll be sharing the best watercolor Photoshop Actions that can completely transform your images in just a few minutes.
The websites we build feature responsive layouts and fluid typography. We employ CSS Flexbox and Grid together with media and container queries to fit in the content. There is not one single fixed presentation, but many possible presentations depending on the content and the reading environment.
In web design, a horizontal navigation bar is a fundamental element allowing users to navigate different website sections. Creating a sleek and functional navigation bar using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is relatively straightforward and provides a lot of flexibility in terms of design and responsiveness.
Traditionally, most tech leaders have come from engineering backgrounds. On their way to success, they’ve learned important business and leadership skills, honed their communication and management abilities, acquired strategic tactics, and shown interest in understanding the product, marketing, and sales.
In this episode, Jake and Surma chat about web components. Why they were invented, what they’re useful for, and how they would improve.
Long gone are the days when TVs were just “boxes for watching the news.” With the rise of Smart TVs, the use of TV apps is skyrocketing. In their recent report, Inscape notes that the average number of apps used by a smart TV user has doubled, with viewers in Q3 2023 using an average of 5.4 apps per person, up from 2.6 apps per person in Q4 2021.
Every year, our Brand Studio team faces an exciting challenge: creating a visual language for Config, Figma’s annual user conference. The goal? Develop a visual identity that feels like a distinctive, standalone experience while staying true to Figma’s overall brand. This experience needs to resonate with an audience of thousands of designers, developers, and product teams who join us in person and tune in virtually. It’s not just about the marquee...
Balance is a slightly different time management tool. It requires you to manually clock on and off and urges you to take breaks, which may help you develop a better work/life balance.
What would an iPhone look like if one of the banks designed it? The modern banking executive faces a pervasive challenge: how to innovate effectively in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. They are increasingly drawn to the allure of cutting-edge technologiesâfrom AI and blockchain integration to cloud-based infrastructure and open banking APIs. However, when creating digital financial products and services, this tech-driven focus might overlook the essential component of the...
This article explores more practical strategies and best practices for designing with personality in mind. We’ll cover key approaches to personality-based design, specific practices for each of the Big Five personality traits, case studies of successful implementations, and challenges to consider in this exciting field. We’ll also introduce the concept of “personalityzation” — a specific approach to adapting user interfaces based on personality traits.
Launching a greenfield application or rolling out a new feature can be like going out into the wilderness: you can never quite be sure what is waiting for you out there (bears, falling rocks …or an avalanche?) With distributed systems, you can face many common problems, and a little awareness and preparedness could be what keeps your service alive! Today, I’d like to talk about one such problem: the thundering herd...
Professionals across various industries have historically relied on concepts to communicate and sell ideas. Concepts are very common in advertising, branding, marketing, graphic design, fashion, architecture, and many more creative fields. It all comes down to the human brain’s innate attraction to narrative and metaphor and how we can leverage this to push ideas forward.
The accepted proposal is a green light for the CSSWG to work on the idea with the intent of circulating a draft specification for further input and considerations en route to, hopefully, become a recommended CSS feature. So, it’s gonna be a hot minute before any of this is baked, that is, if it gets fully baked.
Design is about understanding and solving user problems. It’s about making experiences simple, accessible, and easy to use. Google states that if we “Focus on the user, and all else will follow.”
The innovative mirrored glass works seamlessly to unite traditional craftsmanship with generative algorithms. Each is inspired by a name, word, or phrase that Grasser translates through code, which ultimately determines the piece’s arrangement of shapes and colors responsible for developing a personal narrative.
In this article, we will explore 10 great alternatives to Laravel, each with its own unique strengths and features. Whether you’re looking for something lightweight, highly customizable, or built for high performance, I believe there’s an option here for you.
HTML offers a vast array of elements that can enhance the way you present content on the web. While most developers are familiar with standard tags like <div>, <p>, and <a>, there are some lesser-known elements that can be quite useful. Here are five unique HTML elements you might not know about:
There’s more to website ownership than meets the eye. However, our clients may not realize this. They might think that the work ends when the site launches.
Today, we bring you a collection of modern fitness and gym logo templates that will help you create an inspiring branding design for your establishment
Imagine a scale: on one end sits the designer and the user on the other. Now, let’s take an inventory of the sources of power each party has in their hands in an online shopping situation and see how the scale balances.
In today’s digital age, where consumers are inundated with so many choices, standing out in the market has become more difficult than ever. So how can companies create more engaging and effective campaigns? Integrating UX principles into marketing design.
Colorblindness, or color vision deficiency, affects approximately 8% of men and 0.5% of women worldwide. It means that millions of people experience the digital world differently. As designers, it is crucial to create accessible and inclusive designs that cater to the needs of colorblind users. This practical guide provides essential tips and strategies for designing with colorblind users in mind.
This tutorial will cover how to build a minimalistic homepage Chrome extension, with JavaScript, designed to help users stay productive.
Learn how to create an animated, displaced sphere using custom shaders with Three.js and React Three Fiber.
With the current state of the economy, the advent of AI, and recent layoffs, many UX professionals are feeling anxious. I can understand this sentiment as we’re going through a period of uncertainty. To take a break from the anxiety, let’s reflect on the aspects of our work that make it meaningful.
Designed by industrial studio Relvãokellermann, the LIGRE youn portafilter espresso machine doesn’t look like the part of a rebellious design. But in fact, the minimalist machine is intended as a direct response to both an icon and the status quo it helped shape. Where most high-end espresso machines borrow heavily from the muscular and mechanical Faema E61 designed by Carlo Ernesto Valente in 1961, the German studio’s efforts have produced something more minimalist, monolithic,...
User journey maps are a remarkably effective way to visualize the user’s experience for the entire team. Instead of pointing to documents scattered across remote fringes of Sharepoint, we bring key insights together — in one single place.
The discovery phase is the cornerstone of any UX research project. It involves understanding the users, their needs, behaviors, and pain points.
Creating a visually appealing and user-friendly website is more important than ever. Modern creators need the best tools to bring their visions to life. From AI-powered web design to traditional software, today’s web page design tools suite diverse needs, ensuring dynamic and engaging web experiences.
It was 2015, and I was tired of losing arguments with customers about icon fonts. They were inaccessible, and error-prone, and they looked worse than SVG.
WordPress is a hands-down favorite of website designers and developers. Renowned for its flexibility and ease of use, WordPress offers a vast array of tools to select from. Including an ecosystem of plugins designers/developers can put to use to enhance the flexibility of any WordPress website.
Monowi’s hands-on exercises will guide you, build your confidence, and help you develop skills quickly and effectively.
As UX professionals, we often reflect on our existing methods and seek new ones in order to improve our research processes and deliver more user-centred designs and experiences.
Learn how to raise your rates and earn more as a freelancer. Tips and strategies to help you value your work and negotiate with clients.
A domain name is a unique and memorable web address used to identify and access a specific website on the internet. It’s made up of a name and a top-level domain (TLD), like “example.com.” Domain names make it easier for users to find websites without needing to remember numerical IP addresses.
Matías Duarte’s podcast on why the only limitation for design is imagination (…and battery life)
Despite outlining the urgency and the need for community involvement to keep the project maintained, proposing several options for the future of the project, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining or gracefully deprecating node-pre-gyp to avoid disruptions, it wasn’t resolved until very recently.
After 12 years of trying to make Windows on Arm happen, Microsoft has made Windows on Arm happen. That’s a long time to keep throwing money at a version of Windows that, historically, has lacked compatible software, reliable emulation, and capable enough performance for even light workloads. But it seems like Microsoft’s 12-year odyssey is starting to pay off now that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips are turning...
Some of those CodePen experiments have been focusing on recreating recognizable logos using only CSS. These impressive feats showcase not only the power of pure CSS but also the ingenuity and creativity of many front-end developers.
If you have recently started taking your first steps in product or UX design, don’t stop reading. This article is not meant to discourage you from pursuing your dream of becoming a designer one day. I truly keep my fingers crossed for you and your success.
Everyone makes mistakes but here are common mistakes that you can avoid so your UX research is always fruitful.
In this new tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a JavaScript dropdown filter component where each filtering option will have a unique shareable URL. Once we filter for a specific option, the page URL will change. Then, if we grab that URL and open it in another browser/window, only the associated boxes will appear.
A fresh selection of motion design and animation inspiration from Dribbble.
I love JavaScript because it’s full of surprises and is used for so many amazing things. Many developers love it, and many still hate it for obvious reasons.But no one can deny that JavaScript is damn awesome.
Whether you’re aiming for a grunge look, a spooky vibe, or an avant-garde artistic style, the right dripping font can make all the difference.
The Assistants feature in OpenAI simplifies the process of building your own custom AI agent. Your AI assistant will have access to the latest GPT models, a code interpreter, and any additional instructions or knowledge you provide.
These questions cover a range of aspects from initial impressions to specific tasks, interaction feedback, error handling, overall satisfaction, and future expectations. You don’t need to ask all the questions from this list; choose questions that are relevant to your testing goals.
Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web development that ensures a website’s layout and functionality adapt smoothly to various screen sizes and devices. Unlike traditional fixed or adaptive designs, responsive design employs a fluid and flexible layout that adjusts dynamically, providing an optimal viewing experience regardless of the device being used.
Config 2024 has wrapped, we’ve all reviewed and test-driven the new features. But aside from product announcements, there were a lot of insightful talks. Here are my top 5:
Humans are still better than robots at finding correct answers online. Good.
For years, freelance web designers have been encouraged to book new projects. It’s how I built my business. I’m betting that many more have done the same.
The realization of being in the wrong career could be disconcerting and can feel like a dead-end. But at the same time, it is also a pivotal moment for change.
Creating a visually appealing and user-friendly website is more important than ever. Modern creators need the best tools to bring their visions to life. From AI-powered web design to traditional software, today’s web page design tools suite diverse needs, ensuring dynamic and engaging web experiences.
New products can still thrive in crowded markets, as demonstrated by companies such as Linear, Loom, and Superhuman. How do they achieve this? Often, it’s due to exceptional design tailored to a specific niche. Here’s the story behind our approach at Hellotime, where simplicity and speed are our guiding principles.
Figma, the popular collaborative design platform, recently announced it is also getting in on the AI hype train. The company’s latest move will also involve leveraging user-generated content to train its AI models, a decision that was somewhat expected to happen.
In this monthly roundup, we highlight the top AI news stories from June
There’s no doubt that in tech, success is assumed based on the loudest voices or the spiciest headlines. But that doesn’t mean that those people and projects are actually the most successful. What truly defines the best open source projects, and why should we care? Although the recentState of JavaScript Awards isn’t specifically for open source, it can still provide more context into this question.
With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here. I think for some, learning to code is a good route for that.
Ever since the explosion of design tools about a decade ago, back when Sketch’s community plugins took off, design tool extensions have emerged as a thriving economy. Designers and developers have platforms not only to design in, but to extend and customize with new ideas and capabilities that improve their workflows.
Let’s learn about the principles that drive how Senior Content Designer Lauren Tormey enhances material and ensures clarity and accessibility for university students.
A practicing Muslim BIPOC Designer feels a sense of belonging and pride showing up unequivocally as herself.
When we think about the most impactful designs, whether in print, web, or user interfaces, we often notice a balance and harmony that makes the design attractive and functional. This balance is rarely achieved by accident. Behind these aesthetically pleasing and functional designs lies a powerful tool: the grid. While grids are merely tools in a designer’s toolkit, their power in creating structured, consistent, and user-friendly layouts cannot be overstated....
This is just a no-frills post with code snippets showing how to test support for some newish features in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is in no way comprehensive and doesn’t get into what these features do, which is better covered in other posts.
The news: transitioning to auto is now a thing! Well, it’s going to be a thing. Chrome Canary recently shipped support for it and that’s the only place you’ll find it for now. And even then, we just don’t know if the Chrome Canary implementation will find its way to the syntax when the feature becomes official.
The Sonos Ace design story begins with Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair. Representing an idealized balance between contrasts – soft with hard, simple and complex, machined versus the human body – the iconic Bauhaus modernist design offered the Sonos design team a perfect aesthetic and functional template for designing what would become the brand’s first headphones.
Hello! This week we’re stepping back to review some of the most interesting ideas about design that we’ve heard over the past few months.