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Beautifully designed components for building ChatGPT apps and agentic UIs. Built on top of shadcn/ui.

Free animated React icons library with 350+ smooth Motion-powered icons based on Lucide. MIT licensed, copy-paste ready.

Sometimes looking less realistic can mean feeling more realistic.

Lynn Fisher is a web designer, CSS developer, and artist from Phoenix, Arizona.

Mobile game UX has changed how people interact with apps at a very basic level. Users now expect fast feedback, low-friction navigation, and clear progress signals from the first tap. That expectation does not stop at puzzle games or strategy titles. Casino and betting apps now borrow many of the same UX patterns because they

Search NYC by what you can see. An open-vocabulary semantic atlas for querying urban elements like scaffolding, murals, awnings, trees, and more. Created by Sean Hardesty Lewis.

Double-sided wall clocks have been the domain of institutions and train stations, particularly in Europe. But Turin-based product brand Goofball reckons they have domestic appeal. Here's their Perch Clock: The clock runs on two AA batteries, so no hardwiring is required. To change the

Create stunning, print-ready map posters for any location in the world — free, open-source, and entirely in your browser.

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

A Figma-like visual editor for TUI applications. Drag-and-drop components, edit properties in real-time, and export to 6 frameworks with one click.

I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.

In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the potential use cases.

Smart-home notifications should be timely, relevant, specific, and personalized to avoid overwhelming users and causing distrust or disengagement.

Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

This unique piece of furniture, called Bookmarker, is by Japanese design firm StudioYO. Made from a minimum of materials, it's meant to be both a functional piece and a love letter to books. This is a "bookmark." It may sound like an exaggeration, but this piece of furniture

This delightfully bizarre Penguin Donkey was designed in 1939 by Viennese architect Egon Riss. It was commissioned by the then-new Penguin Books, a British publishing house that had been founded just four years earlier, and would be produced by British furniture company Isokon. The idea was that the piece

This handsome Plinth is by Swedish industrial designer Martina Claesson. Inspired by a gymnast's vault, her aim was to make a simple, elegant stool and storage piece. They're made of solid oak, and they stack. Claesson is a freelance designer, most

As all parents know, children rapidly outgrow both clothing and furniture. In the 1970s, Luigi Colani designed this plywood Tobifant furniture set, which could grow in height along with the child. Colani designed it to not only be flatpacked, but to be utterly easy

Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?

I hadn’t heard of James Moylan until I read a story about him in the Wall Street Journal after he passed away in December, but it turns out my gaze had fallen on one his designs almost every …

Create beautiful animations of your code by simply entering a series of code snippets. Export your code creations to 4k, ProRes, and other HD formats for sharing or usage in other media.

Graef's Manuale H 1920 is all-metal and ready to crank

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

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Why Japan’s internet looks weird — unless you live here. “Japanese customers are used to seeing a lot of information packed into tiny spaces — consider how much text you can find on the label of an onigiri…”

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A closer look at Japan’s maximalist web design shows how cultural values and practical needs create an online world richer than it appears.

There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American friends seem to prefer a font with a serif. It’…

When 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler, who spent years editing Ernie Smith’s writing for Motherboard, reached out about doing a zine, Ernie was absolutely in. The goal of the zine—to shine …