Come join me and grow your UX career in Waltham, Massachusetts. Looking for curious, collaborative, and talented designers that are eager to build the future. www.pega.com/about/career...

Come join me and grow your UX career in Waltham, Massachusetts. Looking for curious, collaborative, and talented designers that are eager to build the future. https://www.pega.com/about/careers/23485/product-designer-ux-design

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Agent Skills – The Next Design System Tokens

Pills, Chips, Lozenges, Badges,and Buttons, oh my! And what’s a Koumpounophobia?

Agent Skills – The Next Design System Tokens https://chrislachance.com/agent-skills-design-token

Pills, Chips, Lozenges, Badges,and Buttons, oh my! And what’s a Koumpounophobia? https://blog.damato.design/posts/chip-away/

The design system you didn’t know you needed… https://wc3ui.banteg.xyz/

The design system you didn’t know you needed… wc3ui.banteg.xyz/

Really neat new performant way to embed video on sites - and it doesn’t require JS! https://frontendmasters.com/blog/performance-optimized-video-embeds-with-zero-javascript/

Really neat new performant way to embed video on sites - and it doesn’t require JS!

Not sure who still uses it, but it’s fun that jQuery just released its first major version in 10 years! https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/

Not sure who still uses it, but it’s fun that jQuery just released its first major version in 10 years!

Geez, had no idea a missing robots.txt can cause major site issues. https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/jz/s1/

Geez, had no idea a missing robots.txt can cause major site issues.

Spot on take of the UX industry at the moment. Vision, soft skills, critical thinking are the real value right now - https://boagworld.com/emails/2026/

Spot on take of the UX industry at the moment. Vision, soft skills, critical thinking are the real value right now -

A lot of cool CSS stuff this year! https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025/

A lot of cool CSS stuff this year!

If your blog even smells like you’re pushing AI slop – unsubscribed for sure.

Be careful giving AI access to your files… https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part

Be careful giving AI access to your files…

Did you know it’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities today? https://bit.ly/3KEWICH

My favorite sort of UX discussion – major changes on the backend, no experience changes on front. #invisibleUX

“Breaking stuff and moving on quickly leaves us surrounded by carnage.” – Jonny Ive

Vacation mode? Happy Thanksgiving y’all!

Want more and better ideas? Collaboration with (constructive) criticism creates quality / quantity.

I’ll be honest, had no idea CSS could even do this!

Clever approach to a unique readability challenge. -

It seems the only fun enterprise experiments left are coming out of Japan… love this, even if it (likely?) is a joke.

My favorite personal design app suite is now free!

The semantic link between the Output tag and screen reader support is very cool. denodell.com/blog/ht... #a11y

Why didn't I know there was a meta tag value that let's me update positioning based on the open iOS/Android keyboard!?

Why didn't I know there was a meta tag value that let's me update positioning based on the open iOS/Android keyboard!?

Tim Miranda, Becca Mayfield, and myself take a look at the new theming and configuration options available in Launchpad.io apps!

Shower thought - AI is our modern-day return to DOS / command line. What goes around... (Ecc 1:9)

Today, Monday is the new Friday.

In the Boston area and want to come work with us at Pega? Customer service application experience is super helpful on this one. career8.successfacto...

Clever way to fight against AI scraping - lifehacker.com/tech/...

Love that with CSS + Stylus extension I can customize any web experience I want; blur, glass, weird shapes, focal points, etc. (Yes, I still use Pandora)

Finally got around to becoming an official US Trusted Tester for Accessibility! chrislachance.com/wp...

It's the 13th Global Accessibility Awareness Day today! Try putting down that mouse, and try navigating your favorite sites using only your keyboard for 10 minutes. accessibility.day

Did you know US Govt Trusted Tester standard have additional guidance above & beyond WCAG 2.0? For example, the autoplaying sound disable method must be "within the first three focusable elements on the page... This requirement is not specified in WCAG."

New podcast alert! Myself and some awesome accessibility specialists over at Pega chat all things around the intersection of accessibility and UX. See you over on Spotify! open.spotify.com/sho...

Design work is mostly 'align work'. (People, purpose, pixels)

PegaWorld is coming up – the speakers are ready, are you? Visionary Pega clients – Rabobank, Unilever, and Verizon – and Pega leaders reveal their groundbreaking secrets. Learn more: www.pega.com/events/...

This is cool - this ring converts sign language into text! www.designboom.com/t...

Do less, do best, done better. www.youtube.com/watc...

Some great thoughts about dark mode here - although I'd let device settings determine color palette, not some website switch. www.smashingmagazine...

Image blur preloads with CSS only (kinda)? Very impressive bit of work. leanrada.com/notes/c...