







There's a new kid in design town: neumorphism. It's predicted to become a big design trend ahead. Let's look at what neumorphism is, the potential…
MichaelCharles/clay_containers
Neumorphic containers and text widget primitives to serve as the foundation of your own unique neumorphic designs.
Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design
We fail to take tech seriously when we do not grasp its full impact on humans

Welcome to the Relational Design Lab | LX Cast | 19 comments
Today I am VERY excited to share with all of you about my new home, Relational Design Lab! This R&D studio brings together a number of projects and will, I hope, grow to encompass many more. I imagine this lab as a gathering place for curious people who want to think about systems, and not in the typical mechanistic way they are described and implemented in technology. Instead, we'll feel into living systems, fractal ways of being, where the how is as important as the what. Over time, I hope the Lab will be a home or a waypoint for designers, researchers, community organizations, artists, storytellers, and technologists to explore togetherness together. Our 'theory of change' focuses on paradigm shift. Big change takes practice and possibility. Paradoxically, paradigm shift is a result of many small changes and repetitions in our behaviour and belief systems. We embrace emergence, mutual support, collective practice, and storytelling. One thing feels pretty clear, we need technology that is designed in solidarity with mutual care, does not depend on the whims of big corporations or its surveillance, and is joyful to use. To live in this reality, we also need to consider how business, funding, governance, scale, and context affect our work. We need embodied ways of knowing and sharing knowledge alongside our technical reasoning. And we need to face the reality of the consequences of our actions and those of our ancestors. This is not a project that aims to solve all the world's problems, but instead, to nurture the capacity for doing things together. We support and practice responding with curiosity and care, not with answers or attachment to ideals that no longer make sense amid collapsing systems. We are not "hiring" for this project now but there are many ways to get involved and would welcome opportunities to collaborate. Some of the projects we're holding include Folk Tech, Spacious, SEED Founding, and Relational Source License. We're also developing a very cool workshop process to help other organizations explore relational design through a community-driven futurism process. As ecosystem supporters, we are developing relationships with many aligned groups and projects as well. There will be more communications coming! If this all sounds like something you would like to support, contribute to, keep track of, or develop relationship with, for now you can subscribe to our calendar here https://lnkd.in/gPRFW7zC and message me directly! | 19 comments on LinkedIn

nexu-io/open-design
🎨 Local-first, open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems 🖼 Generate web · desktop · mobile prototypes · slides · images · videos · HyperFrames 📦 Sandboxed preview · HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export 🤖 Runs on Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Gemini / OpenCode / Qwen / Copilot / Hermes / Kimi CLI.
Sense of abundance
Expansive, curious, open, unfearful, unhurried. The opposite of Scarcity mindset .NoteLink.Active { background-color: rgba(10, 132, 255, 0.15); } .
LukeW | The Convergence of Design
After seeing lots of posts over the years arguing that design has become homogenized, I decided to pull together historical and modern designs for a few differe...

Rethinking the "disabled norm": 7 patterns to use instead in your design system - zeroheight
Chela Giraldo explains how disabled states harm accessibility and what to do instead to build clearer, more inclusive user interfaces.

Disability Dongle
Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design problem. Disability Dongle rhetoric instills in students the value of a quick fix over structural change, thus preventing them from seeking out, participating in, and contributing to existing inquiry. By labeling these material-discursive phenomena—the designed artifacts and the discourse through which their meaning is constituted—we work to shift the focus from their misguided concern about our bodies to their under-analyzed intentions and ambitions.

Useful Mental Model: Normal Distribution - Scott H Young
Some ideas are so powerful once you know them, you start to see them everywhere. Normal distributions are one of these ideas. Let's understand it!

Reticulum Network
For the better part of a generation, we have been taught to visualize the digital world through the lens of hierarchy. The mental maps we carry are dominated by a single, misleading image: The Cloud.
Usability/UX/Accessability Research? · Issue #819 · w3c-fedid/FedCM
I'm curious if this work has any usability, UX, or accessibility research that supports the designs here? Are there non-goals, or handling of failure case scenarios that have been envisioned an...

Dark mode & accessibility myth by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
Dark mode isn't always better for accessibility, you need to let users chose. And if you build a dark theme, make it accessible!

+ ui primitives for navigating between, discovering them, managing them, etc ! (and on all the above, and the ones dan mentions, I don't think they need to look anything like the solutions we already have for these things, new ideas are possible!)
daniel holmgren 🫠
so you have a "universal" app that pulls together all these disparate highly-contextual apps. notifications for all of them in one spot, a algorithm/discovery for seeing updates across all of them, etc