Demo Theatre when impressive moments hide broken fundamentals
A sharp frame for auditing your own roadmap: does this feature solve friction a user actually feels, or does it just land well in a client presentation?
Design systems need people and process, not just faster AI generation
Confirms what you already suspect about the design systems you maintain: AI kills the busywork but not the governance decisions that make a system usable over time.
What AI actually changes separating genuine shifts from old problems exposed
A useful check before you attribute any workflow failure to AI itself rather than to a gap in testing or discovery that was there all along.
P.A.C.'s logoproves restraint and proximity beat overdesign
A clean case study in how a typographic system built from proximity to the daily operation beats one planned upfront and handed off.
Figma agent now lets teams prototype with code on the canvas
Shows a concrete shift in where design-to-code friction disappears first: inside the canvas rather than at handoff.
Paper Mono a free variable typeface built for headlines, UI, and code
A genuinely considered monospace worth testing against whatever you're using now for interface and code text side by side.
The terminal interface why designers should learn to read and use the command line
A practical argument for learning terminal conventions now, specifically so you can read what an agent proposes before approving it.
Moho animates the ambiguity in dreams
A reminder that restraint doesn't have to mean clarity — Moho's work holds beauty and unease in the same frame without resolving it.
Avant Garde magazine Herb Lubalik's 1968 archive of breaking taboos through type and form
Worth ten minutes to see how one magazine logo's geometry became a typeface that still reads as bold decades later.
Demo Theatre when impressive moments hide broken fundamentals
A sharp frame for auditing your own roadmap: does this feature solve friction a user actually feels, or does it just land well in a client presentation?
Pick one AI-generated UI kit or draft sitting in your queue and write down, in one line each, which decisions in it you'd actually defend versus which ones AI just defaulted to.