EFF analysis of the KIDS Act's age verification requirements and privacy impacts.

Analysis of corporate AI token usage and the rise and fall of tokenmaxxing.

How Aleph Alpha uses code to manage complex ML training pipelines.

Knowledge distillation for black-box LLMs: a research paper.

Exploring America's earliest restaurant menus from 1880-1920.

Interactive dataset of memory pricing trends over time.

Reverse engineering Apple's new virtual disk format announced at WWDC 2025.

Repeated runs on same resume produce wildly different scores, revealing LLM non-determini…

Open-weight model GLM-5.2 beats Claude Opus 4.8 in IDOR detection tests at lower cost.

A detailed account of building SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the original Apple II, including interpreter, editor, and compiler, with heavy AI assistance.

Google has restricted Meta's access to its Gemini AI models because Meta demanded more computing capacity than Google could provide, disrupting some of Meta's internal AI projects.

An edited transcript of a keynote on the state of machine learning engineering in the age of LLMs, arguing for the continued value of deep ML knowledge and building one's own context window.

Investigates Flock Safety cameras, their AI-based license plate and individual tracking, security vulnerabilities, police misuse, and privacy implications.

A deep dive into a decades-old keyboard bug that prevented typing the Polish letter Ś on Medium, tracing its origins through language, communism, and Windows.

Learn about daisugi, a Japanese forestry method from the 15th century that grows straight, strong timber by pruning trees like bonsai, offering a sustainable design lesson from nature.

An experienced software engineer and novelist draws a parallel between AI-assisted coding and editing student writers, arguing that senior developers now act as editors who must vet AI-generated code for systemic issues.

Kent Beck clarifies that YAGNI is not about saving code effort but about the cost of speculative structure, with two bills: optionality and NPV.

Personal account of using Claude Code (Opus 4.8) to analyze an MRI for a second opinion on a shoulder injury, highlighting the potential and limitations of AI in medical diagnosis.

Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus, visualized as a collection of 5,000 menus from 1880-1920.

Considering autonomous AI agents from an organizational culture vantage point suggests that we won't trust them in predictable future.

In some cases, design is what something looks like. In other cases, design is how something works. But the most interesting designs to me are when design changes your behavior. Even the smallest details can change how someone interacts with something. Take the power reserve indicator on the A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1 watch. The power res...

Part 1 of a two-part series dismantling a culture that idolizes privately owned tech as a method of social progress.

In 2018, Louis Vuitton announced that the company had appointed Virgil Abloh as its new artistic director of menswear. It was a triumphant moment for Virgil, streetwear, and a new generation of designers and customers. One day, as Virgil was going to work, he was denied entry by a security guard. When Virgil recalled this […]

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A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

How a £150 eBay fridge and a decision tree taught me to stop asking internet strangers if my salami would kill me–and why building for rot is nothing like building happy-path apps.

When everything looks the same, being different becomes valuable again

A place where we've condensed over 50 years of our design prowess into an immersive exploration. Delve into 2,000+ projects, spanning from 1972 to the present and beyond, all empowered by Machine Learning.

A tool for creating and exporting dot patterns for graphic designers, UI/UX, and other visual professionals.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Get started building watch faces with the new Watch Face Designer plugin! Contains examples and components to use with the Watch Face Designer.

This is my tiny corner of the internet to reclaim creativity & curiosity. New one every week.

Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do. Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence decisions.

A lightweight system for measuring engineering productivity that puts the overhead on managers, not engineers—using changelogs, standups, and visibility over surveillance

In response to AI slop we will increasingly rely on trust networks in professional dealings. Trust will be the new business currency.

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy! Presented by Nordcraft.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the evolution of our behavior with television – or “the idiot box.” My hypothesis was that the cause for the global decline in intelligence could…

Download free, customizable SVG icons. Change colors, download, or copy to clipboard. Perfect for web design & development projects.

A tattoo is an indelible mark, a permanent etching of a memory or a belief onto the body. We apply this concept to stuffed animals, which are often deeply intertwined with our personal histories. Through interviews with the owners, we uncover the unique stories and memories associated with each toy—where it came from, what it has witnessed. A tattoo artist then translates these narratives into a custom embroidery design. This tattoo transforms the object into a physical archive of memory, bridgi

What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

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🪄 Figmentation – where Figma meets Autodocumentation Tired of manual documentation? Figmentation automates the process of extracting design tokens directly from your Figma components — including colors, typography, spacing, borders, and effects. With just one click, Figmentation creates a clean,...

Publishing for the internet age.

Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about the best ways to use artificial intelligence for UX work.

I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone. First I turn off my alarm, I've made it a habit to wake up before it goes off. Then I scroll through a

Canva’s pro sister has undergone a huge overhaul inside and out, with an updated (and free) product making big moves in the design software space, and a visual identity that stands apart.

AI erased trust in remote interviewing. Here’s how the system broke and how companies are rebuilding interviews around real human reasoning.

With models emergign as the new material, leadership is about figuring out the unknowns again.

How agentic CLI tools extend Figma MCP and turn wireframes into production-ready prototypes

Gothic has moved from subcultural spaces into mainstream design practice. What’s causing its resurrection? From album covers and film titles to product branding, book illustrations, and more, we dig into how designers are using darkness to confront what culture can’t say directly.

Chaos theory meets design systems.

A chilling tale of deliverables, deadlines and doomed decisions

Speed—turning ideas into tangible results quickly is the most powerful competitive advantage you can build.

Generate Wireframes and UI Designs with the most flexible AI model. Design & Ship faster your products with AI.

A few months ago, a client was reviewing a landing page design with my team. They had created it themselves using a page builder tool — one of those

In the years since the premature death of the former Off-White and Louis Vuitton creative director, a team of archivists has tirelessly catalogued one of the most remarkable private fashion collections ever assembled. We’re revealing it here for the first time.

Every weekend, my good buddy Hiten Shah and I head to The Coffee Movement’s Balboa Street location. They make a nice pour-over. And while it’s about a half-hour&n…

Tech debt and comprehension debt

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This year’s Make-a-thon winners offer insights on how to prototype smarter, structure products better, and push Figma Make further.

If you really do (seriously, really do) need to create a PDF, Steve has your back to help you make sure you make that PDF accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Understanding unintended consequences in design and how to plan for them.

This is a comic about AI art.

I’ve bought and flipped through a couple of memoirs lately from popular recording artists. Tens of millions of people stream their music on Spotify every month. It’s not surprising that traditional publishers would offer them book deals. What’s surprising, at least to me, is how boring they are. One artist seemed to put little effort […]

Confused about modal vs dialog components? Discover implementation patterns, accessibility guidelines, and best practices for creating user-friendly interfaces.

When companies mistake volume for value, and incentivise outputs over outcomes.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Designers once controlled 85% of user experience through interfaces and interactions. Now, with intelligence moving beneath the surface, that control has collapsed to 5%—while the real design decisions happen in training data, system prompts, and model behavior that most designers never see.

A data-driven animation for Fulton Center commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for its 40th anniversary.

How words are powering a new era of digital product design

Why did a tiny logo change cost GOV.UK so much?

Posted on Monday 13 Oct 2025. 698 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

Foils are fake (but plausible) options in screeners that catch inattentive or dishonest participants, protecting data quality and saving time.

In 2018, legal scholar Tim Wu wrote in the New York Times that: Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. This piece well predates the current AI boom, but “all destination and no journey” is a pretty good explanation for why using AI to create art is mainly compelling to people who think about creativity in terms of producing content and generating intellectual property. They jus

It’s Nice That’s curated list of next generation creative talent from across the globe.

Neutral observations on the Vercel vs Cloudflare race to win the edge and developer mindshare

Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.

TL;DR: I made a website for the original classic Mac patterns I was working on something and thought it would be fun to use one of the classic Mac black-and-white patterns in the project. I'm talking about the original 8×8-pixel ones that were in the...

What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked that it was or would be. No, really, if you believe its leaks to the

We’ve all seen the pictures of the Raptor engine for the SpaceX rockets, and if you look at the various iterations, they go from easy-to-vary to hard-to-vary. Because the most recent version just doesn’t have that many parts that you can fool around with. The earlier versions have a million different parts where you could change the thickness of it, the width of it, the material, and so on. More

AI is enabling a new category of personal software. Welcome to the era of home-cooked applications.

Small giants and real giants

MIT Technology Review's annual list of companies that are taking meaningful steps to reduce emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

How a subtle refresh of our Microsoft 365 icons signals deeper change.

Jony Ive's 1998 iMac ushered in a two-decade revolution that made design culturally dominant, teaching the world to care about curves, materials, and craft. But a new force is rising that doesn't live on surfaces at all—artificial intelligence is dissolving the interface itself, shifting design from

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Browse IKEA catalogues through the ages, reflecting different eras and lifestyles - a goldmine for the nostalgic, design enthusiasts and history buffs.

Filters can make or break your UX, and designing them is not as straightforward as you might think.

Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.

Seven simple ideas you can use to improve your animations today.

Andy is a designer at heart, and firmly believes in the power of design to build loyalty, delight users, and create competitive advantage.

Sir Terry Farrell, the UK’s leading architect-planner and postmodernist, has died aged 87

The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

Whether you're designing a website, brand, or publication, strong hierarchy ensures clarity; poor hierarchy leads to confusion. Here's how to structure it effectively.

A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring both the promise and frustrations of LLM-based development workflows.

Visualize the true scale of life in real time with hundreds of live counters. Experience the magnitude of the industrial age, nature, and everyday life firsthand.

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Low contrast text represents 79.1% of all errors. Find out how to make a dent on these issues.

As AI systems advance in unstoppable motion, the creative industry faces an era of rapid change. We give pause with Light and Shade, a series interrogating the challenges and opportunities at the heart of the AI-creative conversation.

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

This article is based on Irina Morozova’s talk at A11yNYC. Irina emphasized the importance of designing digital content that’s accessible to people with limited English proficiency. Using relatable examples like ATM interactions, she illustrated how unclear language and poor design can turn everyday tasks into stressful experiences. She advocated for plain language, clear headings, and intuitive layouts to reduce cognitive overload and preserve user dignity. Irina also highlighted the need for i

Why moving judgment to the edges wins in the long run

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The ultimate hangout for Google enthusiasts - We restore, unearth, and occasionally create Google Easter eggs interactive Google Easter eggs. Delve into the best interactive Google Easter eggs, secret Google tricks, hidden Google Doodle Games, amusing Google jokes, playful Google pranks, and Google hacks.

Build harmonious palettes in a 3D OKLCH space. Explore, create and save harmonious palettes.

What Randy Pausch’s last lecture teaches us about designing with urgency and purpose.

Years ago a colleague of mine taught me a brainstorming technique that I find particularly useful. Thanks, Meagan.

Montblanc, renowned for its timeless writing instruments, partnered with AKQA to create its first luxury e-writing device, blending heritage craftsmanship with advanced technology.

Discover how design systems can evolve into living languages, embracing dialects for flexibility and improved user experiences.

...and the vibes are definitely off It feels different in tech right now. We’re coming off a long era where optimism carried the industry. Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. Managers are quicker to fire, existential dread has replaced the confidence

Typography serves language, not the convenience of a system.

Big tech has built machines designed for one thing: to hold …

Strategy – how to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic – is one of my ongoing obsessions. Years ago, I read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and it’s guided my thinking ever s…

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How cybernetic loops are helping us turn “human in the loop” from a catchphrase into a design practice.

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The Agentic Commerce Protocol is an open standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses. Developed by Stripe + OpenAI.

Us designers love to talk about tools, processes, and skills. We debate software, trade shortcuts, and show off case studies filled with research frameworks …

By thoughtfully organizing your work, you can help your developer counterparts build more efficiently and accurately.

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. Known early on by some as ‘sun pictures’, this technology would change culture and media in important ways.

Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.

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This is a very quick post. I had an idea as I was walking the dog this evening, and I wanted to build a functioning demo and write about it within a couple of hours. While the post and idea started this evening, the genesis of the idea has been brewing for a while and goes back over a year to August 2024, when I wrote about being sucked into a virtual internet. WebSim has been on my mind for a while, because I loved the idea of being able to simulate my own version of the web using the browser d

Entry-level jobs are disappearing. In their place: unpaid gigs, cold DMs and self-starters scrambling for a foothold. The ladder’s gone – what’s replacing it, and who’s being left behind?

Chatbots will likely develop as general life advisers.