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An open letter to software makers: ship fewer dark patterns, respect user agency, and remember that people live with your products every day—not just engage with them.
3 min · 590 words
Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
Marcin Wichary photographs modular industrial control dashboards in German and Polish museums—air traffic, subway, railway, and power-plant panels as physical design systems that software later replaced.
1 min · 320 words
How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it
Railcode founder Yakko Majuri walks through a real agent-assisted design process—inspiration spectra, single-HTML forks, color playgrounds, and relentless iteration—showing how non-designers can steer coding agents toward tasteful product sites.
2 min · 397 wordsagent-assisted
Natasha Murashev argues that adding AI to a product should not mean a chat box: agent workflows, on-device prediction, and TTS can stay invisible while the existing UI simply works better for non-AI-native users.
3 min · 650 words
“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.”
Marcin Wichary reflects on software craft and quality through the lens of duty of care to users—drawing on design and tooling history to ask what it means when products treat people as afterthoughts.
3 min · 664 words
Pranav Desai catalogs ten visual and copy tells of AI-generated “slop UI”—from rainbow gradients and pulsing badges to glassmorphism and generic hype—and why vibe-coded interfaces often look cheap without a design vision.
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What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
One of the issues that I have with the current generation of “AI” products is that they do not appear to take their own premises seriously. I look at a plethora of obsequious chatbots claiming to be serious tools for problem solving, and I think, this is not what a problem-solving tool would look like. Even before we get to the tremendous ethical problems with the frontier labs, it is this impression of their composition *as a product* that makes me feel, constantly, whenever I am interacting…
22 min · 5,119 words
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
2 min · 470 words
Building FynPDF on macOS, Maheep Kumar walks through failed AI UI-testing approaches (screenshots, VNC, XCUITest, generic computer-use) and why a small AXUIElement test API finally let agents drive the app in the background.
2 min · 443 words
Burke Holland argues chat isn’t always the right interface for AI-assisted development, and walks through canvases as a more tangible UI for building with GitHub Copilot.
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6 new Google Flow Tools built by industry creatives
Google Labs ships six Flow Tools co-built with creatives in architecture, sound, and digital content—custom workflows like Mondo Sónico and CaptionCast that you describe and compose inside Google Flow.
2 min · 455 words
Not Enough Usage vs Price: How to Diagnose Subscription Churn
RevenueCat's Daphne Tideman lays out a four-part habit-loop framework to diagnose 'not enough usage' subscription churn before touching pricing—trigger, action, reward, and value.
15 min · 3,463 words
David Bushell timestamps the moment he refused Apple Intelligence features—and Apple’s later defaults said yes anyway—on consent, OS nudges, and keeping a blog as a personal audit trail.
2 min · 513 words
The Grand Unifying Architecture of Frontend
Ryan Carniato maps 30 years of frontend architectures onto one grid—navigation, content, affordances—covering HTMX, LiveView, SPAs, Astro, Server Components, and SolidJS 2.0.
11 min · 2,432 words
A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
Raymond Chen recounts Win32 scroll-bar basics, the Windows 7 right-click “Scroll Here” menu, and the little-known Shift+click jump—then notes how Electron/Chromium scrollbars mostly lost the context menu.
2 min · 462 words
A font that reads what you wrote
Rohan Adwankar introduces semfont: a small library that automatically highlights, colors, bolds, and italicizes text so typography tracks meaning as you write.
6 min · 1,295 words
Alice GG on the Tetris effect for modern feeds: how attention gets hijacked, why it is the scarce resource, and what reclaiming it means for builders and users.
3 min · 620 words
CleanShot’s bulldozed settings
Marcin Wichary documents how CleanShot’s settings UI was “bulldozed”: dense preferences flattened into a shallower, less legible layout, and what that says about modern app design trade-offs.
5 min · 1,074 words
Natasha Murashev argues that with AI making feature work cheaper, the exciting frontier is hyperpersonalized product experiences—building solutions and UI for the long tail of individual user needs.
2 min · 346 words
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horribleA practical workflow for event posters that don’t look like every other AI flyer
John Hartnup shows how to stop AI event posters looking identical: constrain composition, type, and color with concrete prompts and layout rules so the result still looks designed rather than generically generated.
6 min · 1,414 words