Design Has Never Been More Important
With Molly joining Shopify, design takes center stage in shaping the future of AI and commerce.
Design stories
The History of Themeable User Interfaces
Design tokens may be the latest incarnation, but software creators have been creating themeable user interfaces for quite a long time! As with all things, we can study history to learn from our past to inform our future. So let’s dig in!
Rethinking Applications for AI
With every new technology platform, the concept of an application shifts. Consider the difference between compiled apps during the PC era, online applications during the Web, and app stores during mobile. Now with AI it’s happening again.
The History of Themeable User Interfaces
Design tokens may be the latest incarnation, but software creators have been creating themeable user interfaces for quite a long time! As with all things, we can study history to learn from our past to inform our future. So let’s dig in!
Designing For TV
TV interface design is a unique, fascinating, and often overlooked field. It’s been guided by decades of evolution and innovation, yet still firmly constrained by its legacy. Follow Milan into the history, quirks, and unshakable rules that dictate how we control these devices.
Best Figma Avatar Plugins (2025) – Top 10 Picks for Designers
We’ve all been there. You spend hours polishing a layout, only to end up with rows of blank grey circles staring back at you where faces should be. It feels dead. Lifeless.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the New Jitter Website
How Jitter reimagined its website to highlight collaboration, creativity, and motion design at scale.
The Designer’s Guide to Large Language Models
First things first, this article isn’t exclusively for designers but it was written for them. If you aren’t a designer but interested in LLMs, you are free to stick around and learn something about how to shape the behind the scenes of the technology that you are very likely to interact with later today. Your call, no pressure.
The Design Industry Created Its Own Talent Crisis. AI Just Made It Worse.
Erika Kim’s path to UX design represents a familiar pandemic-era pivot story, yet one that reveals deeper currents about creative work and economic necessity. Armed with a 2020 film and photography degree from UC Riverside, she found herself working gig photography—graduations, band events—when the creative industries collapsed. The work satisfied her artistic impulses but left her craving what she calls “structure and stability,” leading her to UX design. The field struck…
Another article about centering in CSS
The tired old meme that centering in CSS is “impossible” has never been so irrelevant. In fact, I’d argue there’s almost too many options now.
