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The world of design is constantly evolving, and staying updated is essential for any creative. An excellent way to deepen your knowledge, techniques, and trends is through reading.

For web designers and developers, design systems are a familiar concept but not all are equal, composability serves as a great way to evaluate a design system’s effectiveness.

Svelte has always been a delightful, simple, and fun framework to use. It’s a framework that’s always prioritized developer experience (DX), while producing a light and fast result with minimal JavaScript. It achieves this nice DX by giving users dirt simple idioms and a required compiler that makes everything work. Unfortunately, it used to be fairly easy to break Svelte’s reactivity. It doesn’t matter how fast a website is if it’s…

After seeing so many posts on Twitter on how Anthropic Artifacts (Claude AI) can build mini apps, games, and even Figma plugins in no time at all, I had so many questions!

Today, I want to share new designs, resources, and news for UX/UI designers to help you stay more productive and bring new design solutions to your colleagues and clients.

A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of a webpage on the internet. Aside from just pointing to a page, URLs can also contain information that can be used to modify a webpage. For example, we can use a page URL to scroll to a certain section on a page or set a user token for authentication.

At Config 2024, we announced Make Designs, a Figma AI feature that allows you to spin up a first draft of a UI design based on design systems alongside a simple prompt. By using design system components, we ensured the feature-generated designs that followed a consistent set of patterns and could be easily customized and styled using the tools professional designers already love. Shortly after launching Make Designs in limited…

In today’s turbulent landscape of design, Penpot stands out with its commitment to open-source, free unlimited access, and its unique, robust features. An example could be its new components system that takes another leap forward in aligning design with code. Let’s dive into how it empowers both designers and developers to create more maintainable and scalable design systems.

Delivering an exceptional customer experience today requires data — lots of it — and traditionally, brands have used a combination of data they collect themselves, so-called “first-party” data and data they collect from external sources, “second” or “third-party data.” Much of this external data has been collected from third-party cookies, tracking placed on websites to collect user data.