John Bai & Peng Zheng designing with Grok Bot
If bots handle implementation end to end, the design job shifts entirely to framing and judging iterations, which is worth testing against your own Next.js/Supabase workflow.
Planning with Agents boundary objects and interface thickness for divided work
Appleton's boundary-object idea gives you actual vocabulary for the handoff points in agent-assisted work that currently feel improvised.
Double Diamond is dead; only the brief survives in AI
If building really is cheap now, your client engagements should front-load sharper briefs and generative breadth over the research-heavy phases the Double Diamond assumes.
<rich-input>GitHub-like structured search as a reusable Web Component
A dependency-free GitHub-style filter input is a component you could lift directly into a client project or your own app this month.
CSS progress() range-based values for responsive design
CSS progress() lets you build the fluid typography and conditional motion you care about without reaching for JS, worth a prototype.
Zeller Terminal 2 proves payment hardware deserves design
Zeller's Terminal 2 shows how considered industrial form can differentiate a commodity B2B category, a useful reference when clients dismiss hardware as unglamorous.
AI & Design Systems workshop using AI to audit and improve systems
Brad Frost's AI skill-audit for design systems is a concrete governance pattern you could pitch to a client running a mature system.
Data Love Letter turns subway data into choreography
Turning MTA data into a lyrical two-minute animation is a sharp example of data visualization as storytelling rather than dashboarding, useful when pitching narrative over charts.
Sonderdays from Minimal Gallery
A quick scroll through Sonderdays keeps your eye calibrated against current Swiss-minimal execution.
John Bai & Peng Zheng designing with Grok Bot
If bots handle implementation end to end, the design job shifts entirely to framing and judging iterations, which is worth testing against your own Next.js/Supabase workflow.
Read Maggie Appleton's piece on boundary objects, then sketch one "thick interface" moment where your own AI-assisted workflow (Cursor, v0, whatever) needs a clearer handoff artifact between you and the agent — you'll likely find a gap worth fixing this week.