The Great Transition: Why the Design World is Re-Evaluating Figma
For the better part of a decade, Figma was the design world’s “North Star.” It pulled us out of the dark…
7 Practical Ways AI is Rewriting the UI Design Playbook (and 3 Ways it’s Not)
By 2026, the “AI will take our jobs” panic has settled into a quiet reality: AI hasn’t replaced the designer;…
Product Thinking for UI Designers: Decisions Beyond the Pixels
For a long time, the industry treated design like a relay race. The Product Manager (PM) would run the first…
How “Liquid Design” Broke the iPhone and Forced Apple’s Great Reset
The launch of iOS 26 was heralded as a “Spatial Awakening.” Apple’s design team, led by the high-concept vision of Alan Dye,…
Density vs. Clarity: The Core Tension in Modern UI Design
Every generation of designers seems to rediscover the same paradox: the more information we can display, the less anyone can…
Why Webflow Isn’t the Future — Yet
Webflow has become the poster child for the no-code design revolution—a world where designers can “build for the web” without…
What Figma Got Wrong About Design Systems
When Figma first revolutionized collaborative design, it promised something that sounded irresistible: true consistency at scale. Design systems became the new…
Why Designers Are the New Bureaucrats
There was a time when design meant making something—actually making something. You’d open Photoshop (or, if you’re older, Illustrator 9), throw…
Interfaces Are Too Polite: The Case for Assertive UX
In the race to make digital products “friendly,” we’ve made them timid. Apps apologize for every notification, websites whisper their…
Blogging Is Dead. Long Live the Blog.
Let’s say it out loud: blogging, as we once knew it, is dead. That romantic era of handcrafted posts, quirky sidebars, and…
The Death of Ownership in Web Design — and Everything Else
There was a time when being a designer — or honestly, just being a consumer — meant owning the tools…
The Evolution of Web Development: From Static Pages to AI-Driven Experiences
Web development has always been a strange cocktail of creativity, technology, and a bit of chaos. In its earliest days, it…
Why Web Design Must Finally Break Free from Its Graphic Design Roots
Web design has always been haunted by its graphic design roots. In the early days, we didn’t know what we were…
Ethical Defaults: Why Designers Must Stop Hiding Behind Settings
Let’s cut to the chase: if your product requires users to dig through labyrinthine settings just to stop you from…
Enshittification by Design: Why Every Interface Turns Against You
Every great product starts like a love story. You fall for it fast. It’s clean. It’s simple. It just gets you….
Dark Mode Is the New Comic Sans (And You Know It)
Somewhere along the way, dark mode stopped being a thoughtful accessibility option and became a design religion. In fact our obsession…
Evergreen Web Design Is a Lie (But Maybe That’s Okay)
Once upon a time, in the golden age of blogrolls and PSD mockups, web designers whispered of a magical concept: evergreen…
The Coming War of AI Browsers: Why the Web Will Never Be the Same Again
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the one piece of software you use every single day but rarely think about—the…