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designer, east bay area of The Web, dev tools and open source ronan.design
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Andy Bell
about 2 months ago
ur LLM when you ask it to write CSS
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with the emergence of early MCP-UI and AG-UI standards, the 2013 perspective of "cards are the future of the web" is set to ring true for a whole new class of distributed, agentic interactions 1.
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www.subtraction.com/2013/09/09/c...
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Cards Are the Future of the Web
This post by startup Intercom is a little self-serving, but it does hit the nail on the head for something that is happening right now: a fundamental shift towards a new interface paradigm bas…
https://www.subtraction.com/2013/09/09/cards-are-the-future-of-the-web/
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danielsdesk
almost 2 years ago
Probably one of the most amazingly designed pedals I’ve seen in a long time 🤩 Hologram Electronics Chroma Console
youtu.be/NnKPP8fTlc4?...
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Hologram Electronics Chroma Console
Introducing CHROMA CONSOLE, A Colorful Suite of Effects.Chroma Console is a flexible multi-effect pedal that takes inspiration from the eccentricity, grit, a...
https://youtu.be/NnKPP8fTlc4?si=ZSDj73mYVAgrUaiW
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Stuart Robson
3 months ago
re-reading the lovely
@heydonworks.com
's article on inclusive card components
inclusive-components.design/cards/
you've got their book, right? right‽
book.inclusive-components.design
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Inclusive Components: The Book
The book (ePub, PDF and Kindle) examines common web UI patterns through the lens of inclusion. The aim is to find more accessible and robust solutions for the patterns we author every day.
https://book.inclusive-components.design/
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Excited to delve into Basecoat
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The latest Dive Club 🎙️ ep with
@turman.co
is so good, stuffed with timely, thoughtful and refreshing takes and reflections on our craft as designers
www.dive.club/deep-dives/k...
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🤿 Dive Club | Kyle Turman — Designing Claude and collaborating with AI
Dive Club features interviews and articles that unlock knowledge from today's top designers like Kyle Turman (Member of Design Staff at Anthropic).
https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/kyle-turman
5 months ago
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zeldman
5 months ago
As I contemplate a long-overdue redesign, it’s worth looking back at what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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Web typography: a refresher and history
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
https://zeldman.com/2025/04/20/web-typography-a-refresher-and-history/
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Nice 🖼️ addition in
@cursor.com.web.brid.gy
- you can now add image files as context to MCPs, which will be great for deeper design-related prompting
www.cursor.com/en/changelog...
5 months ago
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text-wrap: pretty 🥹
webkit.org/blog/16547/b...
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Better typography with text-wrap pretty
Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.
https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/
6 months ago
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Amy Hupe
6 months ago
Exciting news 📣 I've just released 2 new dates for my Writing design systems documentation training: - 1:30-5pm UK time, 23 May:
bit.ly/4lpG9Z2
- 9am-12:30pm UK time, 29 May:
bit.ly/4j2rW2D
A half-day course that will teach you how to plan, write and test docs that users will actually read. 1/2
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Writing design systems documentation
Writing design systems documentation is a hands-on, half-day course on how to write documentation that people can find, understand and use.
https://bit.ly/4lpG9Z2
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Andy Bell
6 months ago
Not as excited as I am
piccalil.li/mindful-design
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Matt Butcher
6 months ago
We’re showcasing
@fermyon.com
Wasm Functions at Akamai’s booth during
#KubeCon
. Here’s
@thorstenhans.bsky.social
doing a demo.
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Fermyon
6 months ago
Say hello to Fermyon Wasm Functions ⚡️ Incredibly fast serverless compute, running on Akamai's global cloud network.
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✨ Figma MCP Deploying this to add to my workflow
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6 months ago
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Fermyon
7 months ago
The third annual Wasm IO is coming up soon, and we're so excited to be a part of the conference in Barcelona! We'll have a few sessions that you don't want to miss on March 27th & the 28th 📢
www.fermyon.com/blog/third-a...
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The Third Annual Wasm I/O Is Coming Up
The premier WebAssembly conference happens at the end of March in Barcelona, Spain
https://www.fermyon.com/blog/third-annual-wasm-io-coming-up?utm_content=326914384&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-1444404500437995520
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Fermyon
7 months ago
Learn how to protect your REST APIs with service chaining. This blog walks through using Spin to build a multi-component app combining a JavaScript API and Python frontend. We also cover securing the API by making it private, allowing only internal calls:
bit.ly/4kInCqs
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Protect Your REST APIs with Service Chaining
Communicate from one component to another without crossing the network, and lock down those REST APIs
https://bit.ly/4kInCqs
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may we all endeavor to go ham on the yarns like this ✨
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7 months ago
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Amelia Wattenberger
7 months ago
wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind. 🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds
wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...
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Darrin Loeliger
7 months ago
The interactions on this site are so delightful
#designsky
sui.io/overflow?utm...
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Sui Overflow 2025 Hackathon
Join Sui Overflow 2025, a global online hackathon where developers, builders, and innovators come together to create on the Sui blockchain.
https://sui.io/overflow?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=muzli
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CoeXisT but make it metal 🤘🏻
#designsky
7 months ago
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Jean Meijer – 🇪🇺 eu/acc
7 months ago
i've found it: the official Windows XP Visual Guidelines from 2001
#designsky
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Countdown to (cloud native) conference season is well under way
7 months ago
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Hà Phan
7 months ago
Maybe it’s just me but all the people who says Figma is dead perhaps have only used Figma at the periphery. All the AI stuff is additive.
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late-winter bay area 🍨 sunsets
7 months ago
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray
7 months ago
oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety
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Darrin Loeliger
8 months ago
Come join this awesome design community!
#designsky
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Karen VH
8 months ago
and then that same author, who wrote a book about hooking people onto your products for product people, wrote a follow up book about for consumers how to improve your attention and focus. The tech biz model isn't about fixing problems but creating problems you then have to pay them to fix.
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Jason Long
8 months ago
I strongly disagree with "everything looks better with a bit of motion". Tasteful and subtle usage in a marketing context can be nice, but almost never in product design.
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v4 🙌
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8 months ago
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yo
8 months ago
Yoooo I didn't know Dropbox was going this hard in design. Super cool website!
brand.dropbox.com
#UXSky
#DesignSky
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Dropbox Brand Guidelines
At Dropbox, our Brand Guidelines help us infuse everything we make with identity. From icons to illustration, logos to language, this collection is the foundation for how Dropbox looks, feels, and sou...
https://brand.dropbox.com/
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Mila Cann
8 months ago
Here we go again... 😅
#UX
#CX
#Brand
#Designsky
#Marketing
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Bilgi Karan
8 months ago
Our
IKEA.com
team cooked!
#uxsky
#designsky
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Katie Langerman
8 months ago
New year, new podcast art! We're also celebrating 50 episodes 🙌 Episode 50 felt a bit like a therapy session for me where I discovered that "starting from scratch" isn't generally in my comfort zone. Perhaps an area to explore more this year!
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David Imel
8 months ago
Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms
@ghost.org
is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
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❤️ Júlia Sardà's incredible illustrations + books
www.juliasardaportabella.com
8 months ago
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Matt Butcher
9 months ago
"Business Impact: 10/10 — Very High"
@torstenvolk.bsky.social
included the WebAssembly Component Model in his Top 10 Enterprise Technology Trends for 2025.
torstenvolk.medium.com/top-10-enter...
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Top 10 Enterprise Technology Trends in 2025 (Part 2): Simplifying the Software Development…
Part 2 of the Top 10 predictions for 2025 (you can find part 1 here) focuses on technologies and trends that aim at radically simplifying…
https://torstenvolk.medium.com/top-10-enterprise-technology-trends-in-2025-part-2-simplifying-the-software-development-48e8b58db323
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2025.wasm
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9 months ago
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my work here is done
9 months ago
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Daily airing of the children completed
9 months ago
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Fountn
9 months ago
🟡 Fliege Mono, by Pavel Laptev A free monospaced typeface with playful ink traps and tall lowercase ascenders, blending functionality and personality across six styles.
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flu day 9? 10? winter break day 200 it's been a haze of decongestant and cookies
9 months ago
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Adrián Mato 🐙
9 months ago
Berkeley Mono Typeface v2.0!
usgraphics.com/products/ber...
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Berkeley Mono™
A love letter to the golden era of computing.
https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono
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weekend roadtrip to NorCal complete moody skies, wet roads and deranged children strung out on sweet, sweet sugar i.e. a total success
9 months ago
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NaMiNg tHiNgS
9 months ago
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Lovely work here
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9 months ago
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'Manning Fireworks' on repeat whilst digging out holiday decorations
9 months ago
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Communication Arts
10 months ago
Caio Braga and Fabricio Teixeira on the state of UX in 2025.
trends.uxdesign.cc/
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fry
10 months ago
framer releasing their analytics product for free and generally keeping prices low has me seriously thinking about giving it another go 👀
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