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fromMedium
2 days ago
UX design

The misrepresentation of "good taste" as a core design skill

Taste is positioned as a crucial differentiator for designers in an AI-driven landscape, but its meaning and implications are complex.
UX design
fromMedium
4 weeks ago

Sorry, designers, we don't decide the future of design

Designers do not shape their field; they respond to market-driven changes, especially with the rise of AI in design processes.
UX design
fromMedium
2 days ago

The misrepresentation of "good taste" as a core design skill

Taste is positioned as a crucial differentiator for designers in an AI-driven landscape, but its meaning and implications are complex.
UX design
fromMedium
4 weeks ago

Sorry, designers, we don't decide the future of design

Designers do not shape their field; they respond to market-driven changes, especially with the rise of AI in design processes.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 weeks ago

Biomimetic Architecture Reaches New Heights With This Bird-of-Paradise Yoga Space - Yanko Design

Thilina Liyanage's architecture translates animal gestures into functional designs, exemplified by the Rifle Bird Yogashala inspired by the Victoria's riflebird's courtship display.
Typography
fromMass-driver
3 weeks ago

MD UI: a Typeface for Interfacing

Typefaces deserve careful design and consideration, balancing quality and legibility while acknowledging the challenges of achieving perfection.
Design
fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

Designing with Living Matter: 5 Installations Using Bio-Based Materials and Digital Fabrication

Architecture must integrate ecological considerations and material intelligence to transform design practices and reduce environmental impact.
Web development
fromUna
1 month ago

una.im | contrast-color() beyond black & white

contrast-color() returns black or white for maximum contrast, but workarounds using color-mix() and style queries enable custom color palette selection while maintaining accessibility.
Graphic design
fromWWD
1 month ago

Pinterest Alternative Cosmos Is Looking to Redefine Visual Inspiration for Creatives

Cosmos, a visual inspiration platform founded by Andy McCune, raised $15 million in Series A funding and became Apple's top design app in 28 countries by solving creatives' need for centralized visual reference management.
Software development
fromMedium
1 month ago

The last interface, sycophancy in AI, design is how it wins

AI will make software development so inexpensive that SaaS companies face existential threats through self-cannibalization, fundamentally transforming the software industry by 2028.
Typography
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Eleanor Yang merges the synthetic and organic to make typography you can touch

Synthetic Nature presents three typefaces—DNA, Mesh, and Data—that metaphorically represent life through biological, network, and computational structures, exploring how biology, computation, and culture merge.
Design
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

Designers Are Done Perfectly "Matching" Their Marble - Here's the New Way to Use Stone

Modern stone design in 2026 prioritizes mixing different stones intentionally with varied finishes and embracing natural patina, replacing the outdated approach of matching all stone surfaces uniformly throughout spaces.
Graphic design
fromMedium
1 month ago

Design is not just how it works. Design is how it wins.

AI commodifies work, shifting design's mandate from functional excellence to competitive winning as the primary objective.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

'raw geological poetry': how SolidNature interprets stone into an architecture of emotions

SolidNature transforms natural stone from conventional building material into atmospheric, emotionally expressive design medium through craftsmanship, technology, and artistic collaboration.
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fromLmnt
1 month ago

Have We Forgotten How to Design?

Waymo's partnership with DoorDash to manually close passenger car doors reveals a fundamental oversight in autonomous vehicle design, despite the availability of proven automated door technology.
Cooking
fromMedium
2 months ago

Escaping the ennui in UI

AI-driven 'vibedesign' favors shallow aesthetics over craft, urging a return from prompt 'shimmer' to practiced 'friction' and genuine mastery.
UX design
fromIlyabirman
2 months ago

Design is dead, it's all evolution now

Digital products increasingly evolve through incremental, ad hoc changes rather than coherent, intentional design, producing tangled, inconsistent interfaces that confuse users.
Graphic design
fromMedium
1 month ago

On craft and connivence

Relying on reused, trendy design assets can deliver quick results but leaves work vulnerable when clients demand original, high-stakes creativity.
UX design
fromMedium
2 months ago

The natural design process

Design should return to essential, natural practices emphasizing observation and focused problem-solving rather than bloated processes.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
2 months ago

Velocity: Fast & Beautifully Furious - I Love Typography Ltd

Velocity is a compact, forward-leaning all-caps sans serif with rounded curves, multiple stylistic sets, and duplexed weights optimized for bold branding and large display use.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

5 Biomimicry-based Architectural Designs That Copy Nature's Best Ideas - Yanko Design

Design in the Amazon embraces layered, adaptive systems prioritizing resilient materials, natural ventilation, and environmental harmony to create comfortable, low-impact interiors and products.
UX design
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Stop designing for categories, start designing for life in motion

Design for fluctuating ability states rather than fixed demographics to make products usable across contexts, increasing relevance, adoption, and satisfaction.
UX design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

5 design principles to feel fully alive

Meaningful life emerges through daily design practices and experiences rather than one-time discovery, with aliveness and human potential exceeding what any single lifetime can express.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Rethinking Interior Surfaces, From Finishes to Frameworks

Surface materials function systemically, integrating color, texture, and technical performance to shape spatial quality, durability, and coherent design across applications.
fromblog.logrocket.com
2 months ago

Linear vs. non-linear design: Which is better and when? - LogRocket Blog

Minimal doesn't always mean usable. This comparison shows how Linear-style UI keeps contrast, affordances, and structure intact, unlike brutalism's extremes or neumorphism's low-clarity depth effects. Daniel Schwarz Feb 5, 2026 2 min read Linear-style UIs look simple, but the theming system has to do real work. Here's how to meet WCAG 2.2 contrast requirements across light, dark, and high-contrast modes whether you're using a UI library
UX design
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fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Minimalism had its moment: now designers say this aesthetic is dominating 2026 - Silicon Canals

Interior design is shifting from minimalist, sparse aesthetics to a colorful, textured maximalist revival emphasizing personality and lived-in warmth.
fromblog.logrocket.com
2 months ago

Which UI libraries/frameworks support the Linear aesthetic? - LogRocket Blog

Teams often use customer and user interchangeably until it breaks alignment. Here's how separating the two clarifies research, prioritization, and messaging across B2C, B2B, and B2B2C products.
UX design
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