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Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era
Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.
Patrick Neeman
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https://uxdesign.cc/five-eras-of-ux-design-and-the-lessons-to-keep-in-the-ai-era-d76a548747a9
Let's talk about gradients
a short essay on tools, with a working exhibit
https://brainfunctioncollapse.com/projects/gradients
Optical vs. Mathematical Alignment
We thought it was a good time to get on our soapbox and talk about something important in typography that we’re seeing less and less people apply. ALIGNMENT. Maybe it’s because of the proliferation of less type-first design softwares being used, but it’s a small thing that makes a big difference. Let’s talk about it…
https://pangrampangram.com/blogs/journal/optical-vs-mathematical-alignment
Thinking about sidebars
https://rauno.me/notes/5
Opusfived
Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.
https://opusfived.dev/
– A Rich Input Field
A rich input field with keyword-based autocomplete and in-input highlighting powered by , OpaqueRange, and the Custom Highlight API
https://rich-input.netlify.app/
Animating CSS border-image
https://css-tricks.com/animating-css-border-image/
Sidenotes with CSS anchor positioning
Sidenotes positioned in the margin with CSS anchor positioning, without JavaScript. On narrow viewports and older browsers, they fall back below...
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-css-sidenotes
Better Icon and Label Alignment
https://ishadeed.com/article/aligning-list-icons/
How to Connect Cursor to WordPress With MCP (Developer's Setup)
Wire Cursor (or any MCP client) to WordPress with scoped tokens: 243 tools for posts, media, WooCommerce, and analytics, plus an audit trail for every action.
https://wpshout.com/connect-cursor-to-wordpress-mcp/
How authentication friction frustrates users — and how to stop it
We’ve been doing authentication all wrong. Here’s how to fix it.
https://uxdesign.cc/how-authentication-friction-frustrates-users-and-how-to-stop-it-552635e50a77
The most important product decision is what you don’t build
Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.
https://liamnugent.me/posts/what-you-dont-build/
