on ui as a metaphor
a personal manifesto and declaration - also known as I am threading a connection through all the notes I've sent myself over the last six months

The Website Specification
A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.


“I think there’s a lot of value in these.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality

Let your designs fail for the right reasons – Firefox UX
How AI-assisted native prototypes changed what usability testing could show me. If you've ever simplified an interaction just to make a prototype manageable, you've probably felt the tension between ...


The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are comp

LukeW | Agent Management Interface Patterns
As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can p...

User Onboarding | Onboarding UX Patterns | UserOnboard | User Onboarding
Find inspiration in how others are approaching the same user onboarding design practices that you're currently facing!

Let’s invent new interfaces, not new products
Posted on Thursday 25 Feb 2021. 507 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

The Story Behind our Brand Illustration
Our brand illustration shows three layers: the foundation being built, the valley we're stuck in, and the world waiting above. Here's what it all means.

toward a new aesthetic
Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...



Quality Wednesdays: How we trained our team to see what doesn’t work - Linear
In early 2023 at an offsite in Tenerife, our European engineering team did a series of exercises that ended up changing the way we work.

Building what customers need, not just what they ask for - Linear
Notes from our product team on building the tools we use every day.

Product Design Psychology by Wouter de Bres
Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.

Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web – Sophia Liu | ACM Hypertext '25
"Save for Later" Has No Later