A Free Random Color Generator I Built for Designers and Developers
Colors are one of those things that seem simple until you need one. "Just pick a nice blue" sounds easy, and then you spend forty minutes cycling th…
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The Best AI Image Generators for Social Media Graphics in 2026: What Actually Matters
If you mostly think of AI image generators as tools for photorealistic scenes, social graphics can feel like an awkward fit. That was the surprising…
CO Dynamic Shielding: A Forgotten Spacecraft Design Tool?
CO₂ Dynamic Shielding: A Forgotten Spacecraft Design Tool? While investigating 3I/ATLAS, I stumbled onto an idea that may have applications far beyo…
AI can design an app now. Are designers redundant?
AI can now draft a screen, write the button labels, and turn a sketch into a clickable prototype in minutes. So here is the question every designer…
What I Learned While Building My First Website with WordPress
Building my own website turned out to be a different experience from the work I'd done writing for other websites. As a content writer, I was famili…
50+ Free Resources for Designers: Tools, Assets, and Libraries
Every design project comes with its own set of challenges. Whether you're designing a website, building a UI, creating social media graphics, or pre…
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Frontend Skills for Backend Developers Through Design and Structure Understanding
Introduction: Bridging the Backend-Frontend Gap For backend developers, transitioning to frontend development often feels like stepping into unchart…
How to Edit Text in an Image Without Photoshop (Quick Workflow)
Ever exported a poster, slide, or app screenshot and then spotted a typo? Re-opening the original design file (if you even still have it) just to ch…
How do you give an AI real design taste?
An AI needs a design process it can use and inspect: a product brief, visual guidance, drawing tools and a review loop. SVG Lab (svglab.app)'s Desig…
Your GitHub README Isn't a Profile. It's a Storefront. (Here Are the 5 Rules I Used
Description: "I stopped decorating my GitHub profile and started shipping it like a product page. Four apps, four download buttons, zero widgets." I…
What Does a Web Designer Actually Do Day to Day? A Beginner’s Guide
What Does a Web Designer Do? A web designer combines creativity with technology to create useful digital experiences. Before starting a design, they…
In iOS 27 and Xcode 27 Liquid Glass will be applied to your app automatically.
By Robin Winters · First published June 30, 2026 · Republished October 2, 2026 Original LinkedIn edition · Readable HTML edition · Robin’s portfolio…
From MVP to Production: Building a Small Business Platform Like a Real Product
An architectural case study of designing, building, and deploying a proprietary business platform without overengineering it. Note: This case study…
Top 8 Modern UI Libraries & Motion Engines Every Developer Should Know (Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2 of our breakdown of modern frontend UI tools! In [Part 1], we covered foundational platforms like Shadcn, Magic UI, DaisyUI, HeroU…
Two Godot Games, Two Visual Identities, One Hard Lesson About Polish
A solitaire card can work perfectly and still look wrong. That was the uncomfortable part of building Glimmerbook Solitaire. The rules were there. T…
why on earth does the Claude logo still look like a sphincter?
I need to talk about the Claude logo. Seriously. It's 6 in the morning on a random Monday and this thought won't leave my brain. Not the model. Not…
Figma-inspired video editing and motion design, done right
A Figma-inspired video editor is one where the canvas is the place you work, the document is the truth, the browser is the runtime, and the free tie…
Conceptual Contours
Domain Excavation Because it requires constant discovery and refinement, building software is much like excavating a buried house. One requirement e…
Three Design-to-Code Rules Most Developers Ignore (That Will Make You a Better Engineer)
Bridging the gap between Figma mockups and production UI doesn't require complex new frameworks—it requires system thinking. Too often, developers t…
The Purple Gradient Problem: Why AI UI All Looks Alike (and How to Fix It)
You can spot it in about three seconds. A product shows up in your feed. Before you've read a single word of copy, you already know how it was built…
I set an 18-hour playtime target for my idle game. A simulation says it has 3.7
Ashline is an idle army-vs-army battler I'm building for my browser arcade (not public yet). You get five unit roles, enemy waves that hit back, off…
I Tested Brilliant.design: Building a Real Portfolio from Figma to AI-Powered Design and Code
I’ve used quite a few AI design tools, but I was always thinking about what might happen when I stop generating a fresh screen and start working on…
Why Is the Swagger Petstore Example a Bad REST API Design?
TL;DR The Swagger Petstore is useful for demonstrating OpenAPI, but it is a poor REST design reference. It mixes singular and plural resource names,…
Sometimes the Fastest System Is the One Willing to Stop
There is a particular kind of meeting every engineer eventually attends. A metric is projected onto a screen. It has moved in the wrong direction. S…
Six Dimensions for Evaluating Voice Agent UX (A Framework, Not a Feature List)
Most voice agent reviews I've read grade on two things: does the transcription work, and does the response sound natural. That's a speech-quality ch…
Why AI Websites All Look the Same and How to Build Something Different
If you've built a website with AI recently, there is a good chance it looks familiar. Maybe you have seen the same oversized hero headline, the same…
I Tested 5 Design to Code Tools With the Same Outdated SaaS Dashboard
A polished UI can make a product feel completely different, but getting there usually takes more than changing a few colors or swapping out an old c…
I read Buffer's engineering blog before applying. Here's what it taught me about the Senior Design Engineer role.
I am applying for Buffer's Senior Design Engineer role. Before I wrote a single line of my application, I read everything I could find about how Buf…
Xiaomi's First NAS Launches at 2,699 RMB: An Industrial Designer Looks at Smart Storage Design
Xiaomi's First NAS Launches at 2,699 RMB: An Industrial Designer Looks at the Design of Smart Storage Xiaomi finally made a NAS. Starting at 2,699 R…
Invite an AI to Look Upon Your Figma Designs
Who will look upon your work before the world does? Let it be an AI, quietly, inside Figma, reading each frame and pinning its honest thoughts to th…