AI for Designers Your LLM is Both Partner and Stakeholder, and That Changes How You Design LLMs compress the design process. They show up as a partner you create with and a stakeholder whose output you have to account for.
UX & Design Consulting Designer Survival Guide 101: How to Adjust to Consulting After Enterprise Work When I started at Atomic Object, I was excited about working for a consultancy. Previously, I’d worked in enterprise environments.
AI for Developers Here’s How to “Slice” a Redesign the Agentic Way Using spec-driven development, we cut up a large feature into vertical slices. It made our code delivery efficient & easy to test.
Design Strategy Design Doesn’t Have A Finish Line Design doesn't have a finish line. The alternative to phased design isn't shipping more slowly. It's shipping the wrong thing on time.
Design Strategy oklch() in CSS: A Modern Approach to Color Discover oklch(), a modern CSS color notation that models color the way humans perceive it and learn when to use it over RGB.
AI for Designers Product Design Is Changing in the World of AI and Agentic Tools AI coding tools, agentic workflows, orchestrated generation: So much is changing for designers. Here's what to let go of and what to embrace.
UX & Design The Invisible Work of Design The most critical work of design happens before any pixels hit the page. Let's talk about that invisible work—and why teams should care.
UX & Design Design Icons That Work: Insights From Neighborhood Signs I've started noticing a variety of signs around my neighborhood, many of them using icons to get their point across. What makes a good icon?
AI for Designers Designing in the Age of AI: How Our Process Is Evolving at Atomic After six months of heavily testing and exploring integrating AI into our design work, it’s hard to imagine solely going back to the old way.
AI for Designers Two Years Designing with AI: How My Process Completely Changed Two years ago, I was deep in the familiar rhythms of design consulting. But my process has changed after two years of designing with AI.
AI for Designers Remix Your Logo Like It’s 1999 with Adobe Firefly AI With Adobe Firefly AI, you can easily remix your logo into something fresh and unexpected—all by using simple generative AI text prompts!
UX/Design Practices From Complexity to Clarity: A UX Lesson from a Hawaiian Fish At its core, UX design means clarifying information or visually communicating to help people find what they need without being overwhelmed.
