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

Victor Yocco - The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence

Misuse and misplaced trust of AI is becoming an unfortunate common event. For example, lawyers trying to leverage the power of generative AI for research submit court filings citing multiple compell

Guides , ux , AI , Design

Nov 17 2025

Preethi Sam - Gradients, Blend Modes, And A Really Cool Hover Effect

Do you know how box-shadow is sometimes used as a hover effect? It adds depth to something, like a button, and can create the impression that it is being pressed into the page. See the Pen [Unti

Techniques , coding , Css

Nov 17 2025

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Penpot’s Flex Layout: Building CSS Layouts In A Design Tool

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

Tools , Css , Design

Nov 17 2025

Daniel Yuschick - The Key To Good Component Design Is Selfishness

When developing a new feature, what determines whether an existing component will work or not? And when a component doesn’t work, what exactly does that mean? Does the component functionally not do

react , User Experience , typescript , ui

Nov 17 2025

Paul Boag - The Big Difference Between Digital Product And Web Design

In the early days of the web, I remember how annoying it was when print designers would claim they could design websites, too. They assumed that just because they could design for one medium, they c

Web Design , User Experience , Design

Nov 17 2025

Frederick O’Brien - What Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Can Teach Us About Web Design

I think we, as engineers and designers, have a lot to gain by stepping outside of our worlds. That’s why in previous pieces I’ve been drawn towards architecture, newspapers, and the occasional polym

Best Practices , Mental Health , Inspiration , Web Design

Nov 17 2025

Luis Ouriach - Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 2)

Since you’re probably coming from Part 1, you may already know that I’ve been living and breathing user interface and product design for just over a decade now and had no one (or to be more exact, v

workflow , Portfolios , Inspiration , Career , Design