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Notting Hill is one of my favorite neighborhoods in London because of its unique spatial layout
Instead of large private backyards, the homes and apartments back up to large private communal gardens shared by the entire block
james and
Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
Cara Tomkoboxesandarrows.com
- Another major source of needless words is instructions. The main thing you need to know about instructions is that no one is going to read them —at least not until after repeated attempts at “muddling through” have failed.
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug – The Rabbit Hole
The most fundamental software infrastructure has become commoditized to the point where most of the innovation is now created at the interface with end users. In the consumer internet world in particular, the marginal cost of software is zero, and design is now the differentiator.
Figma isn’t just design software: it’s a collaboration platform for making software. I call it the OS for design. That, by extension, means that Figma is much better positioned than it might seem for AI: instead of an agent making everything, agents will work alongside humans, with Figma as the coordination layer.
Ben Thompson • 2025.31: How to Think About Figma
