2025

In experience design, friction is the newsletter signup overlay covering the actual content, the difficult wording on a landing page, or the needless optional questions in a checkout flow.  It’s usually the opposite of being intuitive or effortless. However, that doesn't mean that it's always bad for the users. In this article, Zoltan Kollin will show you when and how friction can be an efficient tool to actually design better experiences.

Learn how to avoid some critical design blunders with the right psychology and UX principles.

the Seneca a keyboard dream from the future Learn about buying from $3600 682 custom parts. Built with two human hands. The Seneca is my middle finger to the aesthetic homogeneity and economic over-optimization of 21st century life. Its intricate mechanisms can only be assembled and tuned by human hands, over hours of

Morgen integrates AI daily planning with your calendars, task managers, and schedulers in one powerful app. Available on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

Wireframe without the friction. Balsamiq is the fast, low-fidelity wireframing tool for product, tech, and business minds. Sketch, test, refine your UI—fast.

Next-gen, open source, lightweight, cookieless web & product analytics for everyone — GDPR/CCPA compliant.

The new way to build emails.

Create and send letters worldwide. Add your own photos or documents, write a message, and we'll handle the printing and delivery.

Desqk is a project management app inspired by social media, tailored for freelancers and crowdsourcing teams who don’t align with stagnant and cookie-cutter platforms. Currently in preview mode.

Webstudio is an open source website builder that empowers creators to build highly maintainable and fast websites using modern web standards.

GSAP is an industry standard JavaScript animation library from GreenSock that lets you craft high-performance animations that work in every major browser.

Slick design. Built-in integrations. Revolutionary sharing. Rows reinvented spreadsheets so teams do more, crazy fast.

Discover Playbook, a modern documentation platform that makes it easy to create, manage, and publish beautiful docs with automatic hosting, deployment, and infrastructure management.

I often find myself contemplating the greatest creators in history — those rare artists, designers, and thinkers whose work transformed how we see

Devouring details. Nourishing novelty. Deploying excellence.

Reverse engineered UI library from the best sites on the web

Xtian Miller is a product and communication designer by trade. Founder of SIGNAL A, he has been creating graphic artwork and custom type experiments in his spare time since 2018, and has been working with agencies in the interactive design space for over a decade.

I didn’t leave the attention economy because I hated it. I left because I understood it, because once you see the system for what it is—a parasitic loop that rewards noise over nuance, metrics over meaning, reaction over reflection—you have two choices. Keep optimizing for reach, or

Unclutter makes articles readable and customizable. Unclutter articles, block ads and popups, save highlights, organize your read-it-later list & more. Instantly in your browser, and free.

Custom made, highly interactive and user-friendly browser-based free design tools that are designed to make creative exploration fun.

The best monetization platform for developers

A collection of books on design by Bridger Tower. Discover your next favorite book on design.

Post content to multiple social media platforms at the same time, all-in one place. Cross posting made easy.

Inspired by EXAT 51’s artistic and architectural endeavors, this typeface features clean lines and structural clarity. The Exat typeface captures the very essence of modernist ideas, striking a harmonious balance between form and function.

SnapGrid is an open-source desktop app for collecting, organizing, and analyzing UI screenshots. It uses AI to automatically detect UI components and patterns, making it a powerful tool for designe...

an independent digital typeface foundry and graphic design studio

The smart way to organize all your links, files, and notes into visual collections. Completely private and ad-free, as always.

Ongoing research investigates genome editing to produce high-yielding, yet non-browning eggplants by speeding up the plant breeding process.

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