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The Legacy of Bamini: The Font That Defined Tamil Digital Typography

Before the era of universal Unicode standards, typing in Tamil on a computer was a complex challenge. In the early 1990s, one font emerged as the defi…

Screening Opportunities

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away." — Linus Pauling . In a world dominated by AI, coming up with ideas is …

AI won’t save a product that was never composable

AI won't save a product that was never composable Most product teams shipping AI right now are following roughly the same playbook. A chat sidebar. A …

When a Simple Click Gets in the Way: A Tiny UX Detail That Matters

I was browsing Flipkart the other day, doing something pretty routine—comparing products. Nothing fancy. Just scanning titles, checking specs, trying …

Designing Go APIs That Don’t Age Badly

When building APIs in Go, it’s easy to get caught up in the rush to ship. You create an elegant endpoint, document it, and call it a day. But as your …

From Figma to Production in Six Weeks: The Design-to-Code Pipeline We Use to Ship Flutter Apps

Every Flutter team has the same broken ritual. The designer finishes a beautiful Figma file. The developer opens it, stares at a spacing value of "14.…

The Most Dangerous Designer at a Big Company Is the One Who Can Ship

For years, big companies loved clean role definitions. Designers designed. Engineers engineered. PMs prioritized. Researchers researched. Everyone had…

Java LLD: Designing a Kafka-Like Message Queue for Machine Coding Interviews

Java LLD: Designing a Kafka-Like Message Queue for Machine Coding Interviews Designing a high-performance message queue is a frequent requirement in s…

Is Claude Design Really Laying Off Designers?

The Truth Behind the 2026 AI Hype TL;DR: Anthropic's Claude Design crashed Figma's stock and broke the internet. But is it actually a designer-killer …

Pixeliro Chrome Plugin Has Run Production

Check it: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pixeliro-%E2%80%94-design-intelli/hnfochibcejkpjapbcpipkinaapeamda CSS color sniffer · Live theme i…

Anthropic's New Update on Designing AI: How Claude Is Being Built for the Future

** Introduction** Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude family of models, has been reshaping the AI industry not just by building powerfu…

Interactive Prototype vs. Static Mockup: Which Gets You to User Feedback Faster?

Every product decision starts with the same tension: you have an idea, you need feedback, and you need it before you spend weeks building something wr…

Claude Design vs Figma, Lovable, v0: What's Different

TL;DR: Figma, Lovable, v0, and Claude Design are not the same tool. They pick different starting points: the design file, an idea, a component prompt,…

The 10% nobody in AI design is solving

Figma is down 49% this year. Adobe is down 30%. Lovable crossed $200M ARR and raised a $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation. AI app builder revenue hit…

WCAG: Making the internet more accessible

We at Centro Labs recently finished making LocalMate WCAG 2.2 Level AA Compliant. It's not something that shows up on a demo reel or has any flashy co…

Closing the Usability Gap in Naked Objects

Icon Maker: Create Custom Icons for Any Platform

Icon Maker: Create Custom Icons for Any Platform Every platform demands icons — different sizes, different formats, different rules. Your website need…

Claude Design Is Here — AI Is Entering the Visual Creation Era

Claude Design Is Here — AI Is Entering the Visual Creation Era Anthropic has introduced Claude Design, a research preview tool that goes far beyond tr…

Why Viral Tools Go Viral: The Product Logic Behind the Brat Generator

You didn't need to be a Charli XCX fan to see it everywhere in 2024. Blurry lowercase text. Neon green background. A deliberately lo-fi look that some…

CSS Breakpoint Units - design with pixels and get fluid UX for free while automatically solving two of the oldest accessibility problems.

I've created many NPM packages and invented many hacks focused on helping us all easily create beyond what's typically considered possible. It drives …

I Built a Circle QR Code Generator — Yes, With Curved Border Text

Standard square QR codes are everywhere. But what if you want something that stands out? I built a circle QR code generator that wraps your brand mess…

Vibe Design: Why Claude Design Just Redefined the Category

After 29 years as a designer, I tested Claude Design. The category just shifted, and most designers haven't noticed yet. I have been a designer for 29…

Beyond Blocks and Lines: How CadQuery is Revolutionizing Parametric Design

What You'll Learn Understand the core principles of parametric modeling and how CadQuery differs from traditional CAD approaches. Discover how to leve…

The AI Hype Cycle Is Lying to You About What to Learn

Written by a human Proofread and diagram by Claude 4.7 I've been back in the code for a few months after some time away dealing with family medical st…

Less, But Better: Dieter Rams' Design Principles for Platform Engineering in the Agentic AI Era

In the late 1970s, Dieter Rams looked at the world and saw what he called "an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises." He responded with …

Anatomy of a Skateboard Ramp: 3D Visualization and Materials Math

I have a joke that if you ever meet a skateboarder over the age of 40, you're likely looking a reasonably accomplished amateur carpenter. It was histo…

Building a Multi-Tenant Platform with vCluster on AWS

🚀 Building a Multi-Tenant Platform with vCluster on AWS “Model Once, Run Anywhere” with Shared Kubernetes Infrastructure Modern platform engineering i…

From Form Response to Figma Wireframe: MCP Orchestration in Practice

My previous Dev.to post described MCP cross-service orchestration in general terms -- how form responses become Slack messages, Linear issues, or GitH…

Why UI/UX Design is the Backbone of Mobile Development in 2026

Introduction As we enter mid-2026, competition in the Google Play Store and App Store is no longer just about "who has the most advanced app" but rath…

Same Prompt, Very Different UI, Comparing Codex With and Without `ui-ux-pro-max-skill`

Same Prompt, Very Different UI: Comparing Codex With and Without ui-ux-pro-max-skill on "Virtual Factory" Figure 1. The comparison setup. Standard Cod…