There’s a moment every freelance designer knows well. You post a project you’re proud of, it gains traction, and suddenly there’s a new inquiry in your inbox. Then another. Maybe a referral from someone who saw your work on Dribbble months ago. The momentum is real—and it’s exciting.

With work moving more fluidly between code and canvas, workflows aren’t just changing—they’re converging.

Google has announced that it is officially open-sourcing its DESIGN.md format – a standardized specification originally developed for its own design tool, Stitch.

Maintaining a design system is a significant task, and how you structure the team that does that work may be helping or hurting your cause.

Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the UI on the keyboard as it shifts? What ARIA attributes might be needed? Those are…

The creator of Flowbite built a Chrome extension that helps you extract styles from any website and generate DESIGN(.)md or SKILL(.)md files

Agentic technology — AI that can make decisions, carry out complex tasks and work autonomously — is sparking a familiar debate that’s rekindled each time we meet a transformative technology. From the printing press and the camera to the personal computer and digital imaging software, the questions are different but the controversy is always the same: will new technology serve people or replace them? Artists always answer these questions by…

If you’re like me you gotta be curious… what’s it like designing at OpenAI?

We spent two decades mastering interfaces. We learned how to map workflows, how to communicate intent, how to shape interactions through layout and information hierarchy. The UI really was the ground truth of user experience and I have loved this space. Now, AI changes all of that. We’re moving into a reality where software has agency.

Last week, one of our developers was building a warning message. She noticed the color contrast looked off. She could have done what developers do all the time in that situation: swap the token, hardcode a value that looks right, avoid the back-and-forth over something that simple. Ship it and move on.