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Applications that manifest on demand. Interfaces that redesign themselves to fit the moment. Web forms that practically complete themselves. It’s tricky territory, but this strange frontier of intelligent interfaces is already here, promising remarkable new experiences for the designers who can negotiate the terrain. Let’s explore the landscape:

If you’re trying to decide what to use and when, keep reading. We’ll break it down clearly. Short phrases. Clear separation of ideas.

Practical ways to defend your design: adapt process to context, back choices with evidence, expose work early, and speak stakeholder language.

Every season has a distinct vibe. People celebrate them by wearing seasonal colors and delighting in traditional flavors. Autumn appears to have taken over as a favorite time of year for many. Pumpkin spice, anyone?

AI makes it easier than ever to turn an idea into working code. But to get the best results, you need more than a well-structured prompt. Today we’re announcing updates to the Figma MCP server and Code Connect that make it possible to bring Figma design context anywhere you work—whether it’s in your IDE, your AI agent, or your prototypes.

Web development has become a team collaboration a lot deeper than just writing computer code. It includes designing user experience, to responsive interfaces, to backend development, to customer service upkeep. For businesses and agencies that operate in the fast-paced digital work environment, both creating, and maintaining high functioning websites require technical skills, and the ability to allocate resources and scale projects. This is where remote work teams have become an…

Real-time dashboards are decision assistants, not passive displays. In environments like fleet management, healthcare, and operations, the cost of a delay or misstep is high. Karan Rawal explores strategic UX patterns that shorten time-to-decision, reduce cognitive overload, and make live systems trustworthy.

But here’s what we’ve forgotten: the more fluently a language is spoken, the more accents it can support without losing meaning. English in Scotland differs from English in Sydney, yet both are unmistakably English. The language adapts to context while preserving core meaning. This couldn’t be more obvious to me, a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, who learned English with an American accent, and lives in Sydney.

In this episode, I reconnect with my former instructor, type designer and design coach Troy Leinster. Troy shares his journey from graphic design to type design, and explains why learning to make letters makes you a better designer.