Why Companies Can't Design Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Products YouTube video by Design Theory

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY5e...

The Value of z-index | CSS-Tricks How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices.

css-tricks.com/the-value-of...

Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side.

modern-css.com

noheger.at/blog/2026/02...

The People Who Secretly Decide How Everything Looks YouTube video by Design Theory

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4haF...

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-i...

The Pavoni looks beautifully maintained.

Stamp art by Lolly Batty.

www.instagram.com/ianwhittlese...

Trump’s New White House Sign – A Typography Breakdown YouTube video by Pimp my Type

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6sS...

What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail? A long rant about Apple's design choices.

Good summary from John Ozbay of what feels also to me a downward trend in Apples design ethos (software wise), and the reason that fuels this trend.

blog.johnozbay.com/what-happene...

Easing Wizard - CSS Easing Editor and Generator Generate and customize CSS easing functions with ease and magical precision using Easing Wizard 🧙

easingwizard.com

What a nice tool for tweaking CSS animations

When execution gets easy, taste gets harder | Anton Sten As AI blurs the lines between design and development, the designer's role isn't disappearing. It's expanding. But only if you're willing to fill the new space.

www.antonsten.com/articles/whe...

DOMi & JD BECK - SPACE MOUNTAiN - Live at Tokyo, Japan YouTube video by S B

Interdimensional Cable paid off
Domi & JD Beck 🎶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4td...

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.

www.nngroup.com/articles/liq...

“Overall, Apple is prioritizing spectacle over usability, lending credibility to the theory that Liquid Glass is an attempt to distract customers from iOS 26’s lack of long-promised AI features.” 💯

SVGOMG - SVGO's Missing GUI for minifying SVGs Easy & visual compression of SVG images.

SVGOMG has been updated to use SVGO 4! (thanks Adrien Crivelli!)

This is the URL for SVGOMG. Unfortunately someone maintains a fork with ads, so, err, don't use that 😀

jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

Messenger It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.

messenger.abeto.co

Ugly Websites VS Award-winning Websites YouTube video by Flux Academy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8H...

iOS 26 Liquid Glass.

This is a wonderful post explaining how to make animations feel "right" (or why sometimes you don't need to animate at all). 👇

emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-...

What are OKLCH colors? Article about the OKLCH color model.

jakub.kr/components/o...

a radial gradient shown over a conic gradient of sun rays

a linear gradient shown overtop a radial gradient

a conic gradient on top of another conic gradient

gradient.style has finally
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source

🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...

I love my new roommate
#kimjunggi

Bottle Caps — Ben Sanders Studio

oh wow these are cool

bensandersstudio.com/Bottle-Caps

Beauty Is Objective by Andrew Coyle The Hidden Power of Aesthetics in Design

www.andrewcoyle.com/blog/beauty-...

So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything. A letter from your future self on dropping “UI design” tools…

jondaiello.medium.com/so-long-figm...

I love are.na but I miss my first ffffound

yeah i think it’s also one of the biggest reasons why the network doesn’t stick for people who aren’t already invested into it for other reasons. “facebook for tumblr” is not a winning proposition