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✦ICYMI folders are here✦Website Inspiration: Depo Budget App✦Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong✦Design’s dreaded phrase is coming back. This time we’re in control.✦The CSS hack that extends your website on iOS Safari✦Figma Motion basics: Easing✦1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed✦Website Inspiration: luis kantor✦Website Inspiration: ScreenTune✦Let your designs fail for the right reasons✦State of AI in Design Systems✦Beautiful UI✦I’m leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park✦State of CSS 2026✦Exploring Procedural Geometry with Three.js and WebGPU
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Top storyThinking·2 Aug

Designing for the proxy

AI is changing the design audience, as digital experiences now often interact with machines, like language models, before reaching human users.

UX Collective
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In this edition

Stories from Sunday, 2 August 2026

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Video

You Can't Fake Product Sense

Product sense, an intuitive understanding of user needs and market dynamics, cannot be artificially developed or acquired through shortcuts, according to this analysis.

2 Aug
UX Collective
Thinking

Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center

Creative technologists are increasingly central to product teams, bridging design, code, systems, and storytelling as AI reduces the gap between ideas and implementation.

1 Aug·13 min read
AI & Tools
OpenAI Blog
AI

Building abundant intelligence

OpenAI is pursuing a full-stack approach to develop advanced AI that is more capable, affordable, and widely useful for various applications.

31 Jul
AI & Tools
OpenAI Blog
AI

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

OpenAI details its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices, which are designed to support responsible artificial intelligence governance as the EU AI Act progresses.

31 Jul
UX Planet
Thinking

I Tried Logo Design with Claude Design and It’s Amazing

Claude Design is used for logo creation and various design tasks, including slide deck and HTML email template design.

31 Jul·7 min read
CSS-Tricks
Tools

What’s !important #16: sibling-index() Animations, Use Cases for the infinity Keyword, Container Stuck Queries, and More

Sibling-index() function enables animations and is soon to be baseline with Firefox 154 release.

31 Jul·2 min read

Editor's pick

Perplexity diverges with color

Perplexity, a text-based generative AI model, can serve as a color suggestion tool for building diverging color schemes in data visualizations, requiring user modification of Hex code suggestions.

UX Collective
7 min read

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Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center

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I Tried Logo Design with Claude Design and It’s Amazing

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Look & feel

Inspiration picks

Visual references from across the design web.

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Codrops

Building an Infinite GSAP Scroll Gallery with Parallax and Flip Transitions

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You Can't Fake Product Sense

2 Aug
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The sentence that changed how clients see my work

30 Jul

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OpenAI Blog
AI

Building abundant intelligence

31 Jul
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AI

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

31 Jul
One Page Love

Website Inspiration: Housemait

Codrops

Between Print and Digital: The Making of MERSI’s Website