Hate to break it to you, but we’re not living through a renaissance. No matter what we thought when this journey started — when the internet was young and full of creative spark — we’re not witnessing…

What poker decks, medieval maps, and Google can teach us about making a better design tool

How systematizing curiosity can build better products

Unless you’re a “unicorn,” front-end development is typically out of a UX designer’s wheelhouse. We rely on our developers to implement our designs using clean, usable code — preventing tech debt,…

Nearly every product we use as designers and user researchers today has a Generative AI (GenAI) capability, and the list of products and features is growing by the day. While GenAI-enabled tools may help us go faster, it can also open us (and our employers)…

Learn how to lay the foundation to supercharge a team of designers by creating strong career plans for your team

As of June 28, 2025, if you sell stuff in the EU, not complying with the European Accessibility Act (EAA) can get you fined. We’ll get to the EAA in a sec. but let’s first acknowledge something:…

From hype to habit.

Figma Make, the prompt-to-app coding tool that Figma introduced earlier this year, is now available for all users. Similar to AI coding tools like Google’s Gemini Code Assist and Microsoft’s GitHub…

Why you need to design for the real world.