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New Aug 4, 2026
Backyard Designers: Draft Your Dream Design Team
Backyard Designers is making its rounds, and I got to see myself as a little character. I saw commentary about it feeling icky in-club kinda stuff, which is why the parody site Brokeass Designers with...
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New Jul 30, 2026
Things Take the Time They Take: A 42nd Thought at 42
Two years ago I shared 40 thoughts as I turned 40, and last year I added a 41st thought. So as I make my 42nd lap around the sun, I figured I'd...
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New Jul 23, 2026
Coming Up For Air
Yesterday, I sent out a newsletter and wanted to share it here too because HOLY CRAP. It's been nearly two months since I've published a newsletter or substantive blog post, to which I say, “No sir,...
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New Jul 22, 2026
Design System Maturity Model - zeroheight
ooooo, Design System Maturity Model from zeroheight measures your design system maturity across 6 dimensions: Foundations, Documentation & Knowledge, Governance & Team, Adoption, Measu...
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New Jul 2, 2026
Poetic CSS
Poetic CSS Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget. My friend Miriam Suzanne has a new course on CSS. I've learn...
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New May 19, 2026
Big AI & Design Systems Course updates!
Chapters 1 & 2 of our AI & Design Systems Course are live! 🎉 Our course now has over 16 hours of videos, which includes course lessons, community jam sessions, and other demonstrations....
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New May 18, 2026
Grief in the AI Age
I want to talk about this moment in time, this AI era, through the lens of grief. Grief is a powerful response to loss. When we think about grief, we often think about death, but it's taken me a...
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New May 12, 2026
The Boring Internet | Terry Godier
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. YESSSSSS. The Boring Internet by Terry Godier...
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New May 8, 2026
Spicy Chicken w/ Brad Frost | Wireframe Live
I had a wonderful chat about design systems and AI with Donnie D'Amato on his wireframe show. We talked about all sorts of spicy topics, and I feel like this conversation captures a lot of where...
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New Apr 23, 2026
Building Healthy Community with Ben Callahan
On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I got to talk with my friend, fellow traveler, and recent collaborator, Ben Callahan. Ben and I met at BDConf many many moons ago, and since then we've sha...
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New Apr 20, 2026
Mouth Coding
Lately, I've been talking websites into existence. Not metaphorically, but actually sitting in important meetings with people — clients, collaborators, my wife, friends, neighbors — watching real w...
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New Apr 13, 2026
Adaptability, Curiosity, & Creative Breadth with Brendan Dawes
Brendan Dawes is a brilliant multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and technologist. Just one of his many many many creative projects is working on the incredible Eno documentary (directed by one...
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New Apr 8, 2026
An update on life and work
I've gone a lot of hard and scary experiences that's made me deeply value stability. After enduring varied traumas, I really turned on the afterburners to make up for being ripped away from my ow...