Nov 17 2025

Andy Budd - The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product

Most product teams think in terms of features. Features are easy to brainstorm and write requirement docs for, and they fit nicely into our backlogs and ticketing systems. In short, thinking in term

Best Practices , User Experience , Product Strategy , Design , Business

Nov 17 2025

Preethi Sam - A Few Interesting Ways To Use CSS Shadows For More Than Depth

The world of post-modern web design is one where the light doesn’t cast many shadows. That doesn’t mean CSS shadows are going away. On the contrary, they’ve become more adaptive. Shadows are an incr

Techniques , coding , Css

Nov 17 2025

Mikołaj Dobrucki - Integrating Design And Code With Native Design Tokens In Penpot

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 developer

Design Systems , Design , ui

Nov 17 2025

Daniel Yuschick - Simplify Your Color Palette With CSS Color-Mix()

There’s a reason for all the new, experimental color features CSS is introducing. And there’s a reason for all the excitement they’re stirring up. Colors are hard. Defining a base color palette can

Techniques , Tools , Css , Design Systems

Nov 17 2025

Paul Boag - The Design Leader Dilemma

Many design leaders find themselves in an impossible situation. On one side, senior management have read articles trumpeting the incredible ROI of user experience design. McKinsey tells us that desi

workflow , Tools , Web Design

Nov 18 2025

Frederick O’Brien - Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. This gives us

Inspiration , User Experience , Content Strategy , Design

Nov 17 2025

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1)

Design systems are on the tip of every designer’s tongue, but the narrative in the industry mainly focuses on why you need a design system and its importance rather than the reality of endless maint

Design System , Figma , Design

Nov 17 2025

Slava Shestopalov - Everything I Know About UX Research I First Learned From Lt. Columbo

If you don’t know Lieutenant Columbo, I envy you. I wish I could erase my memory and watch this TV masterpiece for the first time again. Columbo, a Los Angeles homicide detective, has become a cult

Ethics , User Research , ux , Design

Nov 17 2025

Lyndon Cerejo - A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer

Artificial Intelligence isn’t new, but in November 2022, something changed. The launch of ChatGPT brought AI out of the background and into everyday life. Suddenly, interacting with a machine didn’t

workflow , ux , AI

Nov 17 2025

Victor Yocco - The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design

UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. Without some type of user input guiding our process, w

Product Design , testing , User Experience