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If you are new to using AI in design or curious about integrating AI into your UX process without losing your human touch, this article offers a grounded, day-by-day look at introducing AI into your design workflow.
Paired with MCP servers, design systems become a productivity coefficient for AI-powered workflows, ensuring that AI agents produce output that’s relevant and on brand.
Adhere to WCAG by building an accessible component library, auto-detecting issues for web & mobile interfaces, and streamlining dev handoff. Prevent up to 40% of issues before development starts
On iOS, these are in the tertiary keyboard. You have to go to the keyboard with the numbers and common symbols then click the symbols button to see the angle brackets. Then you need to swap back to the main keyboard to type an element name, potentially move to the second keyboard for quotation marks if you want to add an attribute to your HTML element, and go back to...
We sent these questions to 913 design system nerds and received 57 responses. After reviewing the data, we saw a story forming…one of awkward spreadsheets, elegant code instrumentation, a bit of organizational fear, and, ultimately, some pretty cool opportunities.
Current AI interfaces lull us into thinking we’re talking to something that can make meaningful judgments about what’s valuable. We’re not — we’re using tools that are tremendously powerful but nonetheless can’t do “meaningmaking” work (the work of deciding what matters, what’s worth pursuing).
Like most things, the term started off with good intentions. A way to suggest fixes for things which are definitely accessibility barriers, but don’t technically fail the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), or whatever standard you’re auditing against.
If you’ve ever shipped a product or owned a software business, you know this: writing code isn’t the real bottleneck for business, of-course the teams could be faster, could have less technical debt and so on.
I write, to think. More than anything this essay is an attempt to think through a bunch of hard, highly speculative ideas about how AI might unfold in the next few years. A lot is being written about the impending arrival of superintelligence; what it means for alignment, containment, jobs, and so on. Those are all important topics.
Discover OpenAI’s GPT-Image-1, a powerful AI image generation model that creates stunning visuals from text prompts.
Many teams believe that meeting WCAG standards means their digital products are compliant with the European Accessibility Act (EAA). Using a clear comparison grounded in EN 301 549 and EN 17161, we extensively detail what’s in and out of scope—and why organizations need to operationalize accessibility like they do privacy and security.
When two creatives collaborate, the design process becomes a shared stage — each bringing their own strengths, perspectives, and instincts. This project united designer/art director Artem Shcherban and 3D/motion designer Andrew Moskvin to help New York–based scenographer and costume designer Christian Fleming completely reimagine how his work is presented.
Lately, as I continue working on adaptive design for the Material system at Google, I’m noticing an intersection between adaptive thinking and generative AI discourse. I think the “create-anythingness” generative AI appears to possess has renewed the impulse to make the interface ultimately adaptable, customizable, and individual.
Modern development workflows prioritise components, utility classes, and JavaScript-heavy rendering. HTML becomes a byproduct, not a foundation.
Build a scroll spy in 2 lines of CSS with scroll-target-group and :target-current
Rodolpho Henrique guides you through the essential aspects of color in digital design and user experience, from the practical steps of creating effective and scalable color palettes to the critical accessibility considerations. You will explore the psychological impact of different hues and learn how to strategically leverage color to evoke specific emotions, enhance user experience, and understand why thoughtful color choices are essential for successful digital products.
JavaScript continues to evolve rapidly, driven by the work of TC39 and active contributors like the Deno team. At the recent 108th TC39 meeting, nine proposals moved forward across stages — from early concepts (Stage 0) to fully standardized features (Stage 4).
Navigating an unfamiliar city without the aid of Google Maps or any navigation tool can be a challenging experience. A person would have to guess every turn and constantly stop to check signs and would probably take a few wrong turns, wasting time and fuel. But with Google Maps’s guidance in real-time—highlighting traffic, recalculating routes, and providing clear directions—a driver could move forward confidently, making better decisions and reaching destinations...
Dribbble exists to help designers generate and convert leads. Our success depends on increasing both the number of designers who receive leads and the number of leads each designer receives. Designers will share their work, advertise their services, and transact through the platform only if they expect to land more clients as a result.
Across higher education globally, institutions are reimagining how to prepare students for a digital-first world. As part of that movement, Adobe is proud to recognize the inaugural Adobe Creative Campus Innovators — nine standout universities selected by Adobe that are leading the way in engaging students deeply with Adobe’s creativity, productivity, and AI tools across disciplines.
In this post, we highlight the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We’ll see tokenization’s role, its fragility and we’ll build a case for removing it. After understanding the design space, we’ll explore the potential impacts of a recent promising candidate (Byte Latent Transformer) and build strong intuitions around new core mechanics.
Motion is critical for how a product feels. It guides attention, reinforces brand personality, and can make an interface feel more responsive. Motion has been a core part of my design process, going way back to the days when Principle was king.
One could be forgiven for being slow to adopt all these new-fangled CSS features. After all, do we really need them? And even if we do, do they even work reliably across browsers?
There’s some fun computational geometry in my latest artwork, and in this article I’ll walk through how I take a scramble of disconnected paths and turn them into closed shapes, using half-edges and a planar graph.
Generative AI (genAI) is reshaping how people search for information. Anyone watching their content pageviews decline is currently experiencing the impact of this. But what’s behind the shift? The speed of the change is impressive, considering how deeply ingrained information-seeking habits can be.
To create self-serve templates that bend—but don’t break—brand designers need to consider work through a marketing lens. Here’s how to set up editing guardrails and design layouts that flex and scale.
Every “fresh” design trend you love is probably stolen—from Soviet posters to 80s neon, from Bauhaus to Blade Runner. We’re not inventing; we’re remixing. Here’s the proof that today’s hottest web aesthetics are just yesterday’s styles in shinier packaging.
Hope you’re having a good week so far. This edition I loved the deep dive into the State of CSS 2025 results, with :has() rightly in the spotlight.
If you’ve ever opened a B2B app and felt like you were fighting a maze of menus, tabs, and dashboards — you’re not alone. Traditional navigation was once the backbone of digital products. But today, it feels less like guidance and more like a tax. Every click, every search, every hover-over is a micro-burden that slows people down.
A few days ago, I opened my finance app to check my card details. Nothing unusual about that. Except this time, I was already on a call.
A recent study reveals why well-designed AI explanations often go unused and what it means for UX practice
Think “user” and “customer” are the same thing? Think again. Confusing the two could be the silent killer of your product—and your profits. Here’s why designing for the wrong journey could cost you everything.
A vital shift is underway in software development, one that redefines how we build, but also who we are as developers. In recent interviews we spoke with 22 developers that already use AI tools heavily in their workflow, and learned how they got there, how their craft has changed, and where they see things going.
Build an app, test an interaction, or bring an idea to life—with a simple prompt.
The words “Design System” and “adoption” in a conversation with higher-ups are inevitable. It’s important in organizations where you really have to sell the value of a Design System. It makes sense they care about metrics and adoption – they want to ensure their investment is paying off.
Accessibility leaders are frequently on the defensive. We’re brought into the room after the design is finished, the code is written, prototyped, or in beta. Every accessibility leader’s nightmare is to find out about inaccessible products by way of litigation after the inaccessible product is already live. With the pressure to ensure WCAG conformance, reduce legal risk, and protect disabled users from harm, it’s easy to default to one word: no....
The challenge of finding the perfect metaphor—one that’s clear, culturally sensitive, and future-proof—is what makes designing these miniature artifacts so fascinating. Look at any software interface and you’ll find a constellation of them, each trying to say something without saying a word. Early software icons mimicked real-world objects—phones, disks, folders—and as software matured, so did metaphors with stripped details. Reduced to a minimum, they became more abstract and conceptual representations.
On July 31, a huge Figma banner covered the New York Stock Exchange building with a message that read “Design is everyone’s business.” As Figma stepped into its next chapter, we wanted to celebrate in a way that kept that idea front and center.
When you’re working in Adobe After Effects, the right template isn’t just a shortcut — it’s your creative fast-track. Whether you need an attention-grabbing intro, a slick logo reveal, or a polished slideshow, this curated list of 49 free After Effect templates covers it all. Every item comes with keyword-rich alt text, a detailed description, and a practical mini tip so you can use it like a pro.
A step-by-step breakdown of a wireframe and solid blend effect using Three.js render targets, along with a quick look at managing the WebGL lifecycle in Solid.js.
Your past shapes who you are as a designer, no matter where your career began or how unexpected your career path may have been. Stephanie Campbell shows how those lessons can sharpen your instincts, strengthen collaboration, and help you become a better designer today. Learn how the skills you have learned in your previous jobs can be put to work today in meetings, design reviews, and complicated mid-project pivots.
Flexbox is a one-dimensional layout tool, used for arranging elements in a single row or column. It is best suited for simple, one-dimensional layouts and smaller-scale projects.
I’ve been asking every year since about, oh, 2019 “when can I stop using React?” yet I find myself still within its throes 6 years later, feeling like not much has changed. The most succinct answer I have is: we’re in the stone ages of the internet. We’re banging rocks together trying to make fire, praying Prometheus will be stupid enough to just give it to us instead. I don’t really...
The revamp, which will roll out in the US in the coming weeks, will let you ask finance-related questions of the web app’s built-in chatbot, which will serve up an AI-generated answer alongside relevant links. There are also new charting tools that Google says go beyond helping you visualize “simple asset performance” with options to view technical indicators or display candlestick charts.
In the ever-evolving world of design, where innovation meets aesthetics, finding the perfect resources to fuel your creative journey can be a rewarding yet daunting task. As a designer myself I took the ambitious quest of trying over 100’s of design tools to unearth the true gems that are ready to stand out in 2024 in your design journey.
I’ve been skeptical about prompt engineering for a long time, it seemed more like shaman rituals rather than anything close to engineering. All those approaches “I will tip you $100” or “My grandmother is dying and needs this” or “Be 100% accurate or else” could be useful as local fluctuation leveraging local model inefficiency, but never worked in the longer run.
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, a new flagship AI model that will power the company’s next generation of ChatGPT.
OpenAI has released GPT-5, and early testers are calling it the closest we’ve come to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This isn’t just a smarter chatbot — GPT-5 is a tool-using AI agent that plans, adapts, and builds like a human.
Like many designers early in their careers, I believed my role began and ended with wireframes, pixels, and prototypes. My manager thought otherwise. He was obsessed with UX analytics. Every design change came with the same question — “What changed? Did conversions improve?”
This guide focuses on how to structure and present UX requirements so they’re both practical and insightful. When developers understand the “why” behind each UX choice, they’re far more likely to implement the “what” successfully. And that translates into fewer do-overs, less confusion, and happier end users.
In this post we’ll explore the concept of AI agents as software engineers on your development team.
If you’re a developer, it can help you work faster as it allows you to talk to your system and code in plain English. Aside of dealing with code, you can use it for, writing, research, and more. It’s lightweight, supports long prompts, works with tools like VS Code, and is easy to customize.
For millions, navigating digital tools with a keyboard isn’t just about preference for speed and ergonomics—it’s a fundamental need. As part of our ongoing effort to make Figma more accessible to all, we’ve been collecting feedback from designers who rely on the keyboard and screen reader as their primary means for navigation. Close collaboration with these designers, including a group of alpha users, has directly informed our new keyboard accessibility...
Airbnb, the paragon of a “design-led” company, is only hiring a single designer. The job requires more than a decade of experience. There are probably hundreds (possibly thousands) of applicants. The fact that a company known for its design culture is investing only at the top of its org chart is a flashing “check engine” light on the practice of product design.
Master SVG accessibility: Learn techniques for ARIA roles, testing, and creating inclusive graphics that work for everyone.
Web Components are more than just Custom Elements. Shadow DOM, HTML Templates, and Custom Elements each play a role. In this article, Russell Beswick demonstrates how Shadow DOM fits into the broader picture, explaining why it matters, when to use it, and how to apply it effectively.
CSS has “logical properties” which have the unique ability to follow the flow of language. You might be working on an website in English, which is left-to-right and top-to-bottom, but other languages might flip either or both of those. In English, we know what margin-right does, but can quickly become the wrong choice if the direction of a web page is flipped, perhaps during translation.
TLDR: This is the year that AI has taken over UX. In this article, I explain why and give an update on my method of using AI for UX research, focussing on how ChatGPT’s Deep Research functionality can enable a significant acceleration of qualitative research analysis.
Advanced open-weight reasoning models to customize for any use case and run anywhere.
Working with web design clients means wearing many hats. We’re developers, marketers, and (sometimes) therapists. It’s all about building a great website that meets our clients’ needs.
Node.js has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. If you’ve been writing Node.js for several years, you’ve likely witnessed this evolution firsthand—from the callback-heavy, CommonJS-dominated landscape to today’s clean, standards-based development experience.
Before the logo, the website, or the color palette gets approved, there’s the mood board. It’s where early ideas start to take form. They’re not fully designed and not totally final, but close enough to spark conversations, shape direction, and get everyone on the same page.
As always, we’re keeping an eye on the latest tools making life easier for our fellow developers. In this post, we’ve picked some handy open-source tools made for developers like you, whether you’re working with AI, PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js.
Duolingo’s Math team ditches traditional handoff in favor of co-creation, scrappy prototypes, and constant experimentation.
Swedish design is world-renowned for its clean lines, minimalist approach, and functional beauty, and that same philosophy shines through in typography.
In the past, when the idea of computers graphically representing the result of a user’s actions before printing seemed like a plan for the future, a Hungarian programmer had an idea. He wanted to create an editor capable of accurately replicating the final output of a user’s work on a computer. His name was Charles Simonyi, and his project was called Bravo, which became known as the first rich text editor program that...
The story of NaughtyDuk©’s quality-over-speed mindset, their work with top entertainment brands, and the open-source tools they’ve built along the way.
The Core Model is a practical methodology that flips traditional digital development on its head. Instead of starting with solutions or structure, we begin with a hypothesis about what users need and follow a simple framework that brings diverse teams together to create more effective digital experiences. By asking six good questions in the right order, teams align around user tasks and business objectives, creating clarity that transcends organizational boundaries.
Automation isn’t optional anymore, it has become the new normal. That’s why LLMs and gen AI have become indispensable parts of your daily workflow.
“You see? Another ad. We were just talking about this yesterday! How can you be so sure they’re not listening to us?” – My wife, at least once a week.
System design is often taught through solutions specific to particular domains, such as databases, operating systems, or computer architecture, each with its own methods and vocabulary. While this diversity is a strength, it can obscure cross-cutting principles that recur across domains. This paper proposes a preliminary taxonomy of system design principles distilled from several domains in computer systems. The goal is a shared, concise vocabulary that helps students, researchers, and...
Images are a powerful way to clarify complex ideas, reinforce content, and make the web more engaging. But if they aren’t accessible, some people will miss part of the story.
Legacy code is universally despised, and for good reason. But why? You have the code, right? Can’t you figure it out from there?
Visual Studio Code has cemented its reputation as one of the most powerful and versatile code editors for developers. While its core features are well-known, there exists a treasure trove of hidden functionality and extensions that can dramatically transform your development workflow.
Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the team has the right skills to tackle it. The other is diving deep into whether the solution actually solves the user’s problem. Same room, same problem, completely different lenses.