A couple of days ago, the Apple team released Safari 26.0! Is it a big deal? I mean, browsers release new versions all the time, where they sprinkle in a couple or few new features. They are, of course, all useful, but there aren’t usually a lot of “big leaps” between versions. Safari 26 is […]
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Navigation is dying—and it’s not by accident. As interfaces shift toward intent-based design, users no longer click; they expect the UI to read their minds. But when software anticipates our every move, are we creating seamless experiences—or designing invisible cages?
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I always see this Google Gemini button up in the corner in Gmail. When you hover over it, it does this cool animation where the little four-pointed star spins and the outer shape morphs between a couple different shapes that are also spinning. I challenged myself to recreate the button using the new CSS shape()
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System fonts once defined the web’s visual identity, but today they’re mostly fallback options, lacking the personality and control modern typography demands. In a world of variable fonts and expressive design, relying on system fonts isn’t nostalgic—it’s just lazy.
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In “A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer”, Kate stumbled her way through an AI-augmented sprint (coffee was chugged, mistakes were made). In “Prompting Is A Design Act”, we introduced WIRE+FRAME, a framework to structure prompts like designers structure creative briefs. Now we’ll take the next step: packaging those structured prompts into AI
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Learn how 8×8 solved exponential demand during the pandemic by migrating its Jitsi video service to Ampere-powered instances on OCI, boosting performance by 30%. Continue reading How 8×8 Saved and Boosted Performance 30% by Adopting Ampere on SitePoint.
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There is a spectrum of opinions on how dramatically all creative professions will be changed by the coming wave of agentic AI, from the very skeptical to the wildly optimistic and even apocalyptic. I think that even if you are on the “skeptical” end of the spectrum, it makes sense to explore ways this new
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CSS typed arithmetic is genuinely exciting! It opens the door to new kinds of layout composition and animation logic we could only hack before. The first time I published something that leaned on typed arithmetic was in this animation: CodePen Embed Fallback But before we dive into what is happening in there, let’s pause and
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If your app or website makes people feel confused, lost, or quietly scream into a pillow, your UX needs a reboot. These 10 timeless UX principles are the difference between digital love and digital rage-quitting. Designers, read this before you accidentally make another invisible button.
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Self‑host an LLM on your own machine: learn why privacy matters, what hardware you need, and how to run Ollama or LMStudio for fast, local chat. Continue reading Easiest way to run LLMs locally on SitePoint.
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