On the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI.
Physicality: the new age of UI
There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
Sound & Vision
Explore the future of type with the Re:Vision 2025 typographic playground—an interactive showcase of emerging type trends. Dive in and shape the next wave of visual language.
Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt
Yaniv Leviathan, Google Fellow, Dani Valevski, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Vishnu Natchu, Principal Engineer, and Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research
Chris Tate on Twitter / X
New experiment: json-render + jevThe future Generative UI is instantYour components, your actions, your design systemRendered in milliseconds pic.twitter.com/crgcnEUK6f— Chris Tate (@ctatedev) September 18, 2026
Designer Desktops
Modern, inspirational quote desktop wallpapers and iPhone/iPad backgrounds made by graphic designers.
Adding Visual Effects | Web Browser Engineering
Right now our browser can only draw colored rectangles and text—pretty boring! Real browsers support all kinds of visual effects that change how pixels and colors blend together. To implement those effects, and also make our browser faster, we’ll need control over surfaces, the key low-level feature behind fast scrolling, visual effects, animations, and many other browser capabilities. To get that control, we’ll also switch to using the Skia graphics library and even take a peek under its hood.
Radix UI
Components, icons, and colors for building high‑quality, accessible UI. Free and open-source.
UI design is fun! (inspirational ways of looking at UI, and discussing how to better understand UI’s place in game design…) – The Candybox Blog
This post is an extended writeup of what would have been my GDC2020 talk. Since the conference has been postponed I’m sharing parts of this talk as a blogpost (I elaborated on what would have been my talk. This post is much longer).
aesthetics
Aesthetics is relevant to many aspects of computing. Here, we are mostly concerned of the superficial visual appearances and their technological bases.
Building a UI framework
Building a UI Framework Ian Hickson (ian@hixie.ch) — 2025 — First Edition — https://software.hixie.ch/ui-frameworks To leave comments, use the edit version. Introduction This document examines important design decisions for creating a new graphical UI framework. It was commissioned to answer the...
OKHST: predictable color generation for user interfaces — tenphi.me
OKHST is a tone-based color space for generating UI palettes that behave more predictably across states, dark mode, and high contrast.
Fluid forms, vibrant colors - Microsoft Design
How a subtle refresh of our Microsoft 365 icons signals deeper change.
Generative UI: The AI agent is the front end
In a new model for user interfaces, agents paint the screen with interactive UI components on demand. Let’s take a look.
GitHub - observablehq/plot: A concise API for exploratory data visualization implementing a layered grammar of graphics
A concise API for exploratory data visualization implementing a layered grammar of graphics - observablehq/plot
una.im | Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries
Combine three new CSS features to build fully adaptive themed components.
