Web Development

From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant

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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Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1)

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

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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Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)

Unlike timeline-based animations, which tell stories across a sequence of events, or interaction animations that are triggered when someone touches something, ambient animations are the kind of passive movements you might not notice at first. But, they make a design look alive in subtle ways. In an ambient animation, elements might subtly transition between colours,

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