While the world continues to spiral, I’m trying to focus on making things. We can’t control it all, so what I can do is make nice things, highlight great work, and hug those that I love. I implemented a new feature on my blog with the help of Cursor and Claude Code. If you want to search all of the past links, you can now do that with the aid of a chatbot. Yes, I had search already. But WordPress search is limited. This new feature allows more complex searches with clear, formatted results, a quick pass through to the page, and link to where it lives on my site. That blue button in the bottom left corner will open the feature. I’m hoping to turn this feature into a proper WordPress plugin for everyone to use, but that’s going to take some more effort. Stay tuned.
Data Visualization
How to Use Data Without Killing Your Creative Instincts
In their new book Speak Data, they argue that data is deeply human: authored, biased, emotional, and full of creative possibility. What emerges is less a theory about data and more a usable creative practice.
While searching for chart components with smooth animations and dynamic data visualizations, I realized there weren’t many options available. So, I decided to build my own. Charts UI is a library of chart components with smooth animations and dynamic data visualizations. It is built with React and TypeScript. It is a collection of chart components with smooth animations and dynamic data transitions.
Industrial Design
In Sweden, Even Whiteboards are Beautiful
This beautiful, solid Oak Frame Mobile is by Swedish design studio Halleroed and independent designer Matti Klenell.
Art
Painted LEGO Bricks Appear to Move and Vibrate in Katherine Duclos’ Assemblages
The impression of movement, paired with the tactility of the toy pieces, transforms a familiar object we typically associate with childlike play into a elegant assemblages cradled in wood panels
Web Design/UX/UI
Building technology products is easy, but we made it complicated
There are a thousand ways to fail in executing a digital product project. Regardless of the many variables, failure to deliver a project will always be due to foundational risk factors that compromise its successful completion.
A collection of small details that make big difference
These details aren’t accidents. They’re decisions. Careful, intentional decisions made by people who care deeply about craft. You might say that not everyone is going to notice these, but I truly believe that small details add up and make the experience feel more polished. Even if they go unnoticed.
Looking for inspiration? Browse our curated collection of HTML UI components ready to drop into your next project.
Technology
MIT Technology Review: 10 Breakthrough Technologies
Our reporters and editors constantly debate which emerging technologies will define the future. Once a year, we take stock and share some educated guesses with our readers. Here are the advances that we think will drive progress or incite the most change—for better or worse—in the years ahead.
The future of the web depends on simple, open standards.
Graphic Design/Branding
The McMichael rebrand is a work of art
Bruce Mau Design blends Canadian heritage with contemporary style
Random/Books
By the fifteenth century the pear-shaped heart was pretty common, its ubiquity accelerated by its widespread use on the recently invented playing cards.
Trigger Happy: A Visual Celebration of Video Game Controllers
Video game controllers are more than simple peripherals. They are our physical connection to digital worlds – a tool that empowers us to live out the fantasies that games provide. They let us swing swords, strafe enemies, hammer goalmouths, build cities, hack and slash, punch and counter, leap between platforms, command vehicles, and so much more.