Design News

1. Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations

   Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.

2. New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling

   New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products.

3. Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie

   When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their...

4. How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript

   The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web...

5. Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

   Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all...

6. The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI

   As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases,...

7. Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era

   Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a...

8. Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs

   While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks that attackers...

9. When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread

   The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he...

10. No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life

    Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision...

11. From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction

    The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research...

12. Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion

    Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive strain,...