Apparently, multicolored typefaces on the web are a thing. You can use and modify them in CSS. @font-face { font-family: ‘Rocher’; src: url(‘/blog/2023/100daysof-day76/RocherColorGX.woff2’); } @font-palette-values –pink { font-family: ‘Rocher’; base-palette: 1; } @font-palette-values –green { font-family: ‘Rocher’; base-palette: 2; } @font-palette-values –gray { font-family: ‘Rocher’; base-palette: 9; } [data-sample] h1 { font-family: ‘Rocher’; font-size: 6rem;… Continue reading Day 75: font palettes
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10 Best AI Logo Generators to Create Professional Logos
Creating a professional logo used to take days or even weeks. You had to hire a designer, explain your ideas, wait for drafts, request revisions, and finally receive the files. Today, AI logo generators have changed that process. In just a few minutes, you can create dozens of logo concepts for almost any type of… Continue reading 10 Best AI Logo Generators to Create Professional Logos
50+ Modern Logo Design Ideas Created by Professional Designers
A great logo is one of the most important parts of any brand. It creates a strong first impression, helps people remember a business, and builds trust over time. Whether you are designing a logo for a startup, a personal brand, or an established company, looking at creative examples is one of the best ways… Continue reading 50+ Modern Logo Design Ideas Created by Professional Designers
Design-System Maturity: A 6-Dimension Framework
Summary: Use this maturity model to assess your design system’s health and identify where to focus next. Design-system maturity frameworks often follow a linear progression: you start by building components, move to driving adoption, hit the growing pains of scale, and eventually reach a steady state of governance and evolution. But design systems don’t mature… Continue reading Design-System Maturity: A 6-Dimension Framework
Designed for a Dead Language
Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves will teach you. Article Continues Below Article Continues Below 3 Comments Share this:#section1 Become a patron Ready to advance in content strategy, UX/UI, data communication, or learning… Continue reading Designed for a Dead Language
How to Improve Video Editing Efficiency With AI Tools
Video has become one of the most effective ways to capture attention online, whether for marketing, content creation, education, or personal projects. However, traditional video editing can be time-consuming, requiring users to trim clips, add captions, adjust audio, and optimize videos for different platforms. AI video editors are changing that by automating many of these… Continue reading How to Improve Video Editing Efficiency With AI Tools
Understanding the Basics of Two-Way Radio Communication
Understanding the Basics of Two-Way Radio Communication “Can someone meet the delivery truck at the north entrance?” Silence. The supervisor reaches for a phone, starts scrolling through contacts, and waits for the call to connect. Meanwhile, the truck is still sitting outside, employees are wondering what to do next, and five perfectly productive minutes quietly… Continue reading Understanding the Basics of Two-Way Radio Communication
Kick the Bots Out of Your Survey Data
Summary: Learn to spot and filter out survey bots’ responses before analysis so fake data doesn’t distort your findings. If you distribute surveys through open channels like social media, online communities, or public links, there’s a good chance some of your responses aren’t coming from real participants. Instead, they may be coming from survey bots,… Continue reading Kick the Bots Out of Your Survey Data
Top 10 AI Logo Design Tools in 2026
Artificial intelligence has changed the way people create logos. A few years ago, designing a business logo usually meant hiring a designer or spending hours learning graphic design software. Today, AI logo design tools can generate dozens of logo ideas within seconds, making the process much faster for startups, freelancers, and small businesses. The best… Continue reading Top 10 AI Logo Design Tools in 2026
Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data
As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or native application. Yet while there continues to be no shortage of marketing hype around personalization platforms, we still have very few standardized approaches for implementing personalized… Continue reading Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data
Your New UX Habit: Establishing Baselines for Impact
Summary: Gather baseline metrics before starting a project so your team can demonstrate its impact. Between delivery timelines and limited resources, cutting data collection upfront seems like an efficient choice. Without benchmarks to compare to, however, it’s impossible to demonstrate improvement. (Don’t worry, we have some other options for reducing UX waste.) In fact, one… Continue reading Your New UX Habit: Establishing Baselines for Impact
Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3
I saw a great introduction to CSS Grid Lanes, aka Masonry Layouts, by Patrick Brosset at CSS Day 2026. I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it’s inaccessible by default. Note: This post contains interactive demos. If you want to see them instead of screenshots, enable the CSS… Continue reading Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3
Rethinking Figma in an AI world
As AI pulls product development closer to code, Config 2026 reveals Figma’s high-stakes gamble to survive an era of agentic workflows in a code-native environment At Config 2026, Figma is responding to AI pressure by expanding its canvas into code layers, motion, and shaders to prevent teams from bypassing design handoffs entirely. The real test… Continue reading Rethinking Figma in an AI world
Free AI Image Editor: Easy Ways to Edit Photos for Any Project
Whether you’re making a social media post, YouTube thumbnail, images for website, or school project, editing photos is something almost everyone does today. The good news is that you don’t need expensive software or advanced design skills anymore. A Free AI Image Editor can help you make quick changes in just a few clicks. AI… Continue reading Free AI Image Editor: Easy Ways to Edit Photos for Any Project
Loom
This is the first run experience of Loom, an online video recording platform. This first experience is from the perspective of someone who came to Loom directly of their own motivation, to record a presentation video for a virtual event. Other new users to this product could be those invited to view an existing video,… Continue reading Loom
Incentive Structures for Diary Studies
Summary: A mindful incentive structure can keep diary study participants engaged and responding, without overloading you with low-quality responses. Compared to other UX research studies, diary studies — especially longer ones — are particularly vulnerable to high participant attrition — when participants stop submitting entries or responding. One of the strongest levers against attrition is… Continue reading Incentive Structures for Diary Studies
The Core Skill of Design in the AI Era: Critique
Summary: To build useful and usable AI-powered systems, our understanding of users’ needs and our design judgement must be encoded into well-defined evaluation criteria. Design Decisions in Generative AI Systems Imagine asking a large language model a question like “How’s the weather today?” The response might include too much information (“it’s 72 degrees, and it… Continue reading The Core Skill of Design in the AI Era: Critique
Context Architecture
Summary: Context architecture applies information architecture principles to AI systems, helping agents interpret information and produce better, user aligned responses. From Prompts to Context The way we shape AI products has evolved quickly. It started with prompt engineering. Early on, success depended on crafting the right instruction. A well-written prompt could unlock surprisingly strong results,… Continue reading Context Architecture
The forgotten science behind self-improving companies
Cybernetics might just be the most important body of knowledge in 2026 and beyond. But don’t take my word for it. Look at the evidence: from technical staff at Anthropic to a production engineering talk at Factory, and YC founders speaking at Stanford — a pattern keeps emerging. They’re all talking about cybernetics. And as far as… Continue reading The forgotten science behind self-improving companies
Famous Brands Packaged Like Products: Creative AI Poster Series
What if popular digital brands were sold in stores just like everyday consumer products? That simple idea inspired this creative AI poster series. Instead of viewing brands as websites, apps, or online platforms, these posters imagine them as premium packaged products displayed on supermarket shelves. From social media giants and AI tools to creative platforms… Continue reading Famous Brands Packaged Like Products: Creative AI Poster Series
The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)
Summary: “AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work. What Does “AI Design” Mean? When someone says “AI design,” everyone in the room pictures something different. One person is thinking about using AI to generate component variations for a design system. Another is designing a chat interface. A third… Continue reading The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)
Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world
Why design isn’t found in a prompt, but in toil and the creator’s “thinking hand.” In a world of automated perfection, the “thinking hand” reclaims the grit, soul, and human conviction that make design truly come alive. (image source: jonmiura) Lucasfilm and the Art of the Matte Painting For close to 50 years, the same Star… Continue reading Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world
A year in review: 2024
2024 was our first year with three kids, and what a year that was. Personal Life with three kids is different in many ways, but most importantly, it’s awesome. I love my little daughters so much, and I enjoy every day with my family. Okay, maybe not every day because when they’re all sick at… Continue reading A year in review: 2024
Logo Design After AI: How Designers Create Powerful Brand Logos in 2026
AI tools have changed how logo design for brands begins—but not how it succeeds. Today, designers can generate logo concepts in seconds, explore styles instantly, and speed up the creative process. However, creating a logo that is clear, memorable, and meaningful still requires human thinking and strategy. Many people assume AI tools can replace graphic… Continue reading Logo Design After AI: How Designers Create Powerful Brand Logos in 2026