Design

State of a system

Almost eight years ago, I started working on a design system that I got the opportunity to revisit just a few years later. The second round became as big a push with far fewer people. Now, three years after ending the work I’m finally ready to share that experience. My thesis: A rigid design kit is a cache of design decisions, prone to becoming obsolete with the requirements constantly evolving. Documenting practices and boundaries leaves powerless responsibility for upholding coherence to designers and developers. Governing an LLM skill could be a better basis for an evolving design system th

UX Collective · EN

Architizer in Paris: The First-Ever Live Celebration of the Vision Awards Winners

Architizer celebrated the 2026 Vision Awards winners live in Paris with a captivating keynote from Thomas Heatherwick and a winners’ salon. The post Architizer in Paris: The First-Ever Live Celebration of the Vision Awards Winners appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

Beyond Symbolism: Farshid Moussavi on the Ismaili Center in Houston

The cultural building and community center reinterprets Islamic design philosophy through geometry, climate-responsive design, and generous civic spaces. The post Beyond Symbolism: Farshid Moussavi on the Ismaili Center in Houston appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

The Case for Human Judgment: Alison Brooks on Designing with Generosity at Every Scale

The British-Canadian architect and A+Awards juror on the qualitative decisions that shape generous architecture, and the human skills behind every great building. The post The Case for Human Judgment: Alison Brooks on Designing with Generosity at Every Scale appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

The Last Touchpoints: 11 Design Components for the Moments Automation Can’t Replace

As buildings learn to run themselves, the few things we still touch become more valuable than ever. The post The Last Touchpoints: 11 Design Components for the Moments Automation Can’t Replace appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

Why Architecture Needs a Post-Occupancy Crit

Architecture school teaches architects to defend their decisions, but occupation teaches them what those decisions actually meant. The post Why Architecture Needs a Post-Occupancy Crit appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

35 Best Architecture and Design Firms in New York

New York City is arguably the epicenter of the architecture industry in the U.S. These are the city's top firms. The post 35 Best Architecture and Design Firms in New York appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

The Future of Architecture Is Human: Enter the 15th A+Awards “Project of the Year”

The 15th A+Awards’ top honor celebrates the thinkers, clients, communities and makers behind the buildings that define architecture today. The post The Future of Architecture Is Human: Enter the 15th A+Awards “Project of the Year” appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

7 Firms at the Forefront of Sustainable Architectural Practice

The word sustainability gets thrown around a lot, and these firms show what it actually means in practice. The post 7 Firms at the Forefront of Sustainable Architectural Practice appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

Context Libraries: How AI Power Users Manage Context Engineering

Claude power users rarely edit their context files and often can’t find them. Your AI agent is only as powerful as its context library.

Nielsen Norman Group · EN

The New Siri’s Biggest Strength Is Not Intelligence

A useful AI assistant needs relevant personal context, the capability to use it, and an experience that helps users understand its limits.

Nielsen Norman Group · EN

UX Maps: Glossary

Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to UX maps.

Nielsen Norman Group · EN

Synthetic Users vs. Human Respondents: Same Conclusion, Less Variation

Data from AI-generated respondents pointed to the same conclusion as a survey of 604 humans but contained far fewer distinct answers.

Nielsen Norman Group · EN

AI in UX: Work Is Faster, But Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings

AI saves UX practitioners time on nearly every task, yet most feel lukewarm about it: mandates, unreliable output, and inflated expectations eat the gains.

Nielsen Norman Group · EN

UX Disciplines: Glossary

Definitions of fields related to user experience, including UX design, UI design, visual design, interaction design, service design, UX research, and DesignOps

Nielsen Norman Group · EN

Experience Design: Dropping the “User” from “User Experience”

AI is expanding UX beyond human users to agents acting on their behalf. Experience design names this broader field, which still centers on people’s goals.

Nielsen Norman Group · EN

The Role of UX in Agentic Software Factories

AI-native software development lifecycles reduce UX to AI context. UX must discover user needs, shape what’s built, and evaluate it before and after launch.

Nielsen Norman Group · EN

Sponsored:Sponsored: Final Deadline: iF DESIGN AWARD 2027 Entries Close Nov. 2

From Apple to Herman Miller, iF DESIGN AWARD winners have defined excellence in product design since 1954. This is your chance to earn a place alongside them. View the full content here

Core77 · EN

An Italian Folding Bicycle Design that Fits Into a Suitcase

This T&C Pocket Bici is a folding bicycle made by Tresoldi & Casiraghi, an Italian metalworking firm, in 1963. Unlike the folding bicycles of today that split in half, the components here all fold into the racetrack-shaped frame. The whole thing then fits within its own suitcase. (Brompton bike in the photo for scale.) The bike's origin story is a bit murky; one auction site claims it was created specifically for the Chinese market, and that 2,500 units were sold. In contrast, BikeFlip says a Chinese group placed an initial order for 2,000 units, but that after T&C produced the first 1,000 uni

Core77 · EN

Industrial Design Student Work: A Hard Drive that Visually Indicates How Full It Is

This morphing hard drive enclosure is by Antonin Odin , done as an Industrial Design student at France's ENSCI . People increasingly want more visibility over their data, more taste in the objects they live with, and more function from both. ZO is a 12 TB personal server that gives storage a body. Empty, it's a plain aluminium tube. As it fills up, its fins slide out one by one, one millimetre for every 400 GB. Switched off, it keeps its shape: it shows what it holds. It's built to live on a shelf, rather than hide in a rack. An almost ritual object that makes what we entrust to the machine vi

Core77 · EN

Unidome's Transparent Igloos

Earlier we looked at the work of Dream Domes , a UK-based event structure company. They've worked out a way to erect large event tents with no central support. In the UK is another company called Unidome that also builds circular-footprint event structures, albeit smaller, and with transparent walls. Rather than being competitors, the two companies are collaborating. This year patrons of Glide , an ice skating rink located at the Battersea Power Station retail and dining complex, can rent these Unidome "igloos" for 90-minute periods. Dream Domes is doing the installation. Dream Domes says they

Core77 · EN

Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-26-26 to 10-30-26)

Here's what we looked at this week: A good idea for a lamp for Ferrari fanatics-- based on a 1970s East German design . Improvised tools: A creative "juggad" leak detector. Wowhaus' dichroic glass " Inspire " sculpture. Drawing with absurdly long pencils: How scenic artist Nikolay Laukhin draws massive backdrops Claire Lavabre's Posto , an industrial-minimalist lamp for Hay. Felix Scharstein's mesmerizing kinetic sculpture of ducks in flight . A cardboard-inspired wooden stacking box , by industrial designer Yusho Nishioka. France's Beauer X8 , a sideways-telescoping camper, can triple its foo

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Automatic Drop Down Seals for Doors

The automatic door bottom is a clever bit of engineering that prevents under-door drafts, without installing a skirt that drags across your floor. Also called an automatic drop seal, it consists of an aluminum extrusion mounted in a dado cut into the bottom of the door. A little brass plunger protrudes from one end on the hinge side. As you close the door, the plunger is forced inside the assembly, where it triggers the spring-loaded seal to drop to the threshold, sealing the gap. Opening the door causes the seal to retract. Automatic door bottoms are useful not only for sealing drafts, but al

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The Unique Fairings on Bandit9's RED 800 Motorcycle

You probably know of RED , Bono's organization that raises fund to fight preventable diseases, through their many collaborations with Apple and Jony Ive; there were special RED iPod Nanos, iPhones and even a Mac Pro. Now RED's moved into the motorsports space, partnering with motorcycle designer Daryl Villanueva. Villanueva's firm, Bandit9 , will be producing nine of these RED 800 Ducati-powered motorcycles: As you can see, rather than painting the entire thing red, Villanueva's opted to carefully fade a hand-painted finish into the brushed aluminum of the fairing. "Fewer parts," writes Villan

Core77 · EN