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Joined April 2012
🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3800 β†’ Behind Apple Music’s new brand identity β†’ Flow in UX β†’ The default wins β†’ You could do it alone Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-22/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3799 β†’ Design and engineering are the same thing (video) β†’ Scaling the design process β†’ Everyone is starting over β†’ On alignment that looks wrong β†’ The future of CSS Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-21/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3798 β†’ No more icons in every menu by default β†’ The language we never agreed on β†’ A design system is what it does β†’ Paper Mono β†’ Agentic verification Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-20/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3797 β†’ Design in the material you ship β†’ Introducing the Accessible Components Library β†’ Where decisions live β†’ Product designer is no longer a job description Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-19/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3796 β†’ Interfere design system by @jakubkrehel, @interfere_ β†’ Pure UI in the agentic era by @mattrothenberg β†’ Toolcraft by @alex_barashkov, Vlad Kamelsky β†’ Someone behind the software by @karrisaarinen Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-16/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3795 β†’ Design systems directory β†’ Agentic systems are the future of brands β†’ The best way to use icons in Web UIs β†’ Fit height to background pattern size with calc-size() Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-15/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3794 β†’ Taste is not a design methodology β†’ Emerging patterns: Design leadership in 2026 β†’ The new age of software β†’ Inside Anthropic’s design team Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-14/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3793 β†’ Craft β†’ The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 β†’ How to present a proposal to a client (video) β†’ Murmuration for growing design teams β†’ New to the web platform in September Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-13/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3792 β†’ The convergence of design β†’ mkdir: Curated design inspiration directories β†’ Anatomy β†’ On giving fluid interfaces an anchor Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-12/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3791 β†’ Tesler’s Law: Complexity moved to a different part of the journey β†’ Designing Michelangelus β†’ Critique in the AI era β†’ The web needs interactive lists Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-09/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3790 β†’ Context is now the product (video) β†’ Fluid functionalism β†’ Design owns coherence β†’ Imperfection Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-08/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3789 β†’ Chat is AI’s command line β†’ More than a mark β†’ Why icon consistency is harder than it looks β†’ Named breakpoints without Sass β†’ CSS does your tooltip positioning now Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-07/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3788 β†’ The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal β†’ What the 500 in blue-500 means β†’ Designing for voice first β†’ Beautiful theme toggles for React, Svelte, and Vue and more. Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-06/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3787 β†’ Timeless type family β†’ Training AI to paint with code β†’ Design is a nice-to-have β†’ Google Fonts superfamilies β†’ A flame needs three sine waves Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-05/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3786 β†’ Jev for designers β†’ Design systems for AI agents β†’ Beyond productivity: Designing space for creativity β†’ Multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floats Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-02/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3785 β†’ Field notes β†’ EmDash 1.0: An open source CMS for Astro β†’ Thinking Orbs: AI status indicator components for React β†’ Improving site performance by shipping more CSS Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-01/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3784 β†’ On interfaces that let you change your mind β†’ What does AI-readiness mean in design systems? β†’ We are all product engineers now β†’ Modern web types Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-30/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3783 β†’ Don't forget to design β†’ A loading state within a loading state β†’ Understanding System One β†’ What happens when you can build it all yourself β†’ Skip the tools, make the outcomes Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-29/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3782 β†’ The default is not a design decision β†’ Every color, by family β†’ How is AI changing design? β†’ How AI is changing user research β†’ Context architecture Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-28/
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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3781 β†’ Aesthetics & Beauty β†’ Design system conventions in Figma β†’ Has your product outgrown its floor plan? β†’ The product strategy isn’t the roadmap β†’ Detect when elements overlap with CSS Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-25/
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