Articles
What’s new with Figma – Lots of new stuff announced at this year’s Config conference, including conditional variables, built-in design token support and expanded developer tools. Also: Adobe seems to have quietly killed XD.
AI: first new UI paradigm in 60 years – AI shifts our interaction with computers from telling them what to do, to telling them what we want to achieve.
AI is a lot of work – Fascinating long read from The Verge on the human cost of AI.
Designing for visionOS – Apple’s guidelines for creating spatial interfaces.
Who should take responsibility for evil UX design and digital ethics? – When persuasion becomes manipulation, who protects the user?
Balancing users’ needs and business goals in UX design – On finding the middle-ground between customer and business goals.
A storefront for robots – Another great read from The Verge on how Google’s promotion of low-quality SEO chum has ruined the internet.
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Cool tools
Monzo tone of voice – Excellent writing guidelines from Monzo.
Minimal Reader – Simple, browser-based ebook reader made by yours truly.
Tunera Type Foundry – Open source font foundry with some fun typefaces.
Cool stuff
Wonky: An exploration of rhythm and grooves that break the rules – A lovely audio story on J Dilla that becomes an exploration into rhythm itself. Perfect example of how interactivity can enhance an article.
Times New Bastard – It's Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif.
Hillside – Recreating the original vision for Habitat 67 in Unreal Engine.
Facebook MusicGen – Another new music model, but unlike others you can actually play with it on HuggingFace. Also does music style transfer which has all kinds of dreadful mashup potential.
Comic Mono – Write code in the font we’ve all come to love and loathe.
Endless.horse – Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo