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Top storyInspo·15 Aug

Inside HAOQI.DESIGN: Letting DOM and WebGL Share a Retro-Futurist Stage

HAOQI.DESIGN combines DOM and WebGL in a retro-futurist portfolio using scroll sync and glass shaders.

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Website Inspiration: SIMEON SH

Simeon unifies online business revenue views by connecting payment providers, eliminating manual data management and spreadsheets.

15 Aug
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How to become an AI Designer

Becoming an AI designer requires specific skills and knowledge.

15 Aug
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Who gets the meter?

AI's emergence is reintroducing the previously obscured costs associated with technology, prompting a reevaluation of how we perceive and internalize the expenses of digital systems.

15 Aug
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Fixing 5 Broken Designs In 10 Minutes (Before & After Graphic Design)

Designers fix five broken designs in a short ten minute timeframe, showing before and after results.

14 Aug
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Publish and install agent skills from the Figma Community

Figma users can publish and install agent skills from the Figma Community.

13 Aug
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Rethinking design leadership with swarms and flocks

Design leadership is reexamined through the concepts of swarms and flocks.

13 Aug

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What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More

This article presents a collection of CSS techniques, including using the Custom Highlight API, enabling images to overflow themselves, fixing text-stroke with paint-order, and styling skeleton UIs.

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Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong

12 Aug·35 min read
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Website Inspiration: SIMEON SH

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Website Inspiration: Depo Budget App

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Let your designs fail for the right reasons

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Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

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Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens

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