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Chirp Pong
Simon Willison published a new playable AI-assisted browser game experiment using audio chirps for phone-to-phone networking.
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Build your slide template
New Martin Fowler guest essay explains reusable slide-template choices across color, typography, and layout.
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Your Fridge Is a Valid Payment Device — Eleonora Drykina & Nina Žižakić, In The Pocket
Conference video explores everyday devices as payment interfaces for commerce design.
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Bridging technical depth and usability: The story behind Radar’s redesign
Cloudflare has shipped a Radar redesign focused on broader usability and real-time traffic visibility.
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A Practical Guide To Naming Things
New Smashing Magazine guide collects naming conventions and structures for UI components.
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Principles for effective slides
New Martin Fowler essay argues for minimalist slides tightly coupled to the speaker.
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VLM Enhanced Metadata For My Icon Galleries
It explores using CLIP and vision models to add searchable icon artwork metadata.
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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
GitHub just published a detailed postmortem on a major CSS architecture and performance change.
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When chat is the wrong UI
GitHub is arguing for canvases as a better AI interface for some developer tasks.
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Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
The interview discusses current AI-agent workflows and design-engineering practice in today’s tooling environment.
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The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI
Google Research outlines a generative UI approach for teacher-made learning interactives.
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Do people prefer traditional architecture?
Works in Progress publishes a current essay on measurable preferences for traditional architecture.
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Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom
Published now with a worked framework for quantifying UX initiative returns.
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The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface
Smashing Magazine frames AI-era UX as a move from buttons and forms to intent-driven experiences.
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The Bulldozing of an Interface
Argues current large refactors erase years of interaction rationale that screenshots cannot reveal.
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Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers
Browsers still lack broad support for CSS random(), so a cross-browser polyfill is immediately useful.