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15 Reddit Scandals That Changed the Internet Forever

Reddit’s biggest controversies are platform-design lessons in disguise. From GameStop and API protests to misinformation, moderator revolts, and on...
Posted on 22 October 2026 | 3:48 pm

5 Creative Type Foundries You Should Know About

Forget the same safe fonts you see on every other website. These five independent foundries are making typography weird, expressive and impossible ...
Posted on 20 October 2026 | 4:27 pm

She Taught the Macintosh to Smile

The Macintosh didn’t always smile. Susan Kare gave it one — and with a handful of black pixels, helped transform the computer from an intimidating ...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 3:52 pm

The Death of the Portfolio (And What to Do Before You’re Left Behind)

A polished portfolio used to get you hired. Now AI makes polished work cheap, and clients want proof you can solve problems, communicate clearly, a...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 3:59 pm

Web Design Schools Have a Giant YouTube University Problem — And AI Just Made It Worse

A web design degree used to be the obvious way to learn the craft. Now it’s competing with YouTube, AI, and people who spend those same years actua...
Posted on 8 October 2026 | 3:45 pm

Web Designers Love Dark Mode Toggles. Users Might Not Care.

Dark mode toggles are everywhere, but do users actually need them, or are designers designing for other designers? A growing UX debate is questioni...
Posted on 6 October 2026 | 6:45 pm

Turn Any Photo Into Retro ASCII Art in Seconds

Turn any photo into gloriously retro ASCII art — made entirely from letters, symbols, and tiny bits of chaos. This free tool turns your dog, face, ...
Posted on 1 October 2026 | 2:19 pm

How the Prompt Box is Swallowing Website Interfaces Whole

For decades, web designers obsessed over perfecting menus, tabs, and dropdowns. Now a single empty prompt box is quietly replacing them all. As AI ...
Posted on 29 September 2026 | 12:18 pm

Traditional Web Development is Dead…(and Honestly? Good Riddance.)

AI isn't killing web development—it’s killing the boring parts. The real winners won't be the people who can memorize another framework. They'll be...
Posted on 28 September 2026 | 2:49 pm

This Website Found More Than 5 Million Forgotten iPhone Videos… and It’s Weirdly Emotional

Before TikTok turned every moment into content, people uploaded shaky, pointless little iPhone videos to YouTube and forgot about them. This strang...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 5:56 pm

Canva Just Turned Affinity Into Adobe’s Biggest Free Problem

Canva just made a much more serious play for professional designers: Affinity now brings design, photo editing, and layout into one free app, while...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 2:32 pm

Nobody Wants Your Damn App

Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience:...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 3:57 pm

This Weird 1973 Typeface Just Came Back From the Dead

A wonderfully weird typeface from 1973 has come back to life — and somehow it looks more at home in 2026 than ever. Meet Clippy, the retro font tha...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 3:01 pm

The Death of Apps Has Already Begun

We spent 15 years filling our phones with apps. AI could make almost all of them invisible... and the death of apps may already be closer than anyo...
Posted on 21 September 2026 | 3:32 pm

AI Can Build Your UI. Now Figma Can Tell It When It Screwed Up.

AI can now build a UI in seconds, but that doesn't mean it built the UI you actually designed. A new Applitools integration turns Figma designs int...
Posted on 18 September 2026 | 4:39 pm

25 Places Designers Can Still Find Free, Non-AI Images for Commercial Use

AI images are taking over stock libraries, but the human-made web isn't dead yet. We found 25 places where designers can still find incredible free...
Posted on 17 September 2026 | 5:00 pm

Chrome Can Now Measure Exactly How Obnoxious Your Website’s Ads Are

Chrome can now measure exactly how obnoxious a website’s ads are, from how much of your screen they swallow to how much data and CPU time they burn...
Posted on 17 September 2026 | 3:00 pm

Cloudflare Just Gave AI Training Bots the Middle Finger

Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training. After years of watching bots ...
Posted on 16 September 2026 | 5:18 pm