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Stop Shipping the AI Sidebar

Nielsen Norman Group's State of UX 2026 report came out this month with a thesis worth tattooing somewhere: AI should be a thoughtful copilot, not an...

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Style Queries Turned Design Tokens Into a Runtime API

Design tokens have always been a glorified find-and-replace.

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Three Protocols Want to Generate Your UI. None of Them Agree on How.

The GenUI spec wars kicked off in Q1 2026 and already we have three competing declarative formats for letting AI agents describe user interfaces: Google's...

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Figma Weave Is ComfyUI for People Who Actually Ship

Node-based AI generation has been a thing for almost three years now — but until recently, it lived exclusively in the ComfyUI-and-terminal crowd.

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Tailwind v4 Killed Your Token Pipeline (And That's Fine)

For years, design token pipelines looked roughly the same: a JSON source of truth, a build tool like Style Dictionary, and platform-specific outputs — CSS...

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Your Design System's Contrast Tokens Will Break Under WCAG 3

The W3C dropped a fresh WCAG 3.

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Your npm Package Is Now a Figma Prototyping Engine

Last week, prototypes in Figma and the components in your codebase were parallel universes that sort of looked alike if you squinted.

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Native CSS Mixins Are Coming — Your Design System's Build Step Just Got Nervous

Sass mixins have been the duct tape holding design systems together for over a decade. That era is winding down.

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Kill Your Tooltip Library

CSS Anchor Positioning now ships in every major browser, making JavaScript tooltip libraries obsolete for most use cases. Popper.

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Figma Gave Agents Write Access. Now What?

Five days ago, Figma flipped a switch that most designers haven't fully processed yet.

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