Design
We track 58 posts about Design from 37 engineering blogs. Most active: Evil Martians, New York Times, Replit. Latest post: Oct 9, 2026.
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Reduce AI Decision Fatigue: Lessons from Game Design (opens on the source site)
I have been facing a significant amount of decision fatigue when using AI for development. I’ll spend close to eight hours a day, five days of the week, prompting, planning, and reviewing code. This leads to decision fatigue, where I become less able to make sound decisions as the day goes on. Growing fatigue impacts […] The post Reduce AI Decision Fatigue: Lessons from Game Design appeared first on Atomic Spin.
How to design an AI agent for resolution instead of rapport (opens on the source site)
Twilio ·
Conversational design almost always prioritizes persona and tone. Those matter but not as much as solving your customers' problems first.
The Design Workflow Is Broken. Here Is How Vitalii Khomenko Thinks It Should Be Fixed (opens on the source site)
Principal Designer Vitalii Khomenko argues the real bottleneck in AI-accelerated product teams isn't engineering anymore, it's the Figma-to-code handoff, and here's his fix. Continue reading The Design Workflow Is Broken. Here Is How Vitalii Khomenko Thinks It Should Be Fixed on SitePoint.
Free the models: Harness design at the frontier (opens on the source site)
Replit ·
Model routers are everywhere right now: a small model reads each turn and picks which model should handle it. The inconvenient truth is that the router is always less capable than the model it’s choosing for. Replit Agent lets the model decide instead. The main agent, or core loop, chooses its subagents’ tier and effort, and adjusts its own as the task unfolds. Given that freedom, Astra hands routine implementation to less costly subagents and decides for itself where its tokens are worth spending. On both DeepSWE and Terminal-Bench, Replit Agent is Pareto-efficient against Astra on its own:…
AI makes design system guardrails mandatory; this framework delivers them (opens on the source site)
AI has made implementing and enforcing design systems cheaper than ever. At the cost of speed, this falls through the cracks. But agentic development makes good design system practice non-negotiable. Implement a design system and bring consistency to an existing project.
[OCTO] Utiliser Claude sans coder (opens on the source site)
Vous utilisez déjà l'IA, chacun à votre façon, donc l'idée n'est pas de vous réapprendre à écrire un prompt. Voici quelques apprentissages d’une formation en ligne “Anthropic Certificate Foundations” pour acquérir quelques réflexes pour sublimer votre utilisation de l’IA générative en 2026 :-)
How to design an AI-to-human handoff that preserves context (opens on the source site)
Twilio ·
76% of customers say the human agent they're transferred to has no context. Learn 5 steps to a better AI-to-human handoff that carries the conversation.
Designing the Front Door to Our Subscriptions (opens on the source site)
Illustration by Suvi SuitialaBy Tracie Lee (VP of Design, Growth & Platforms) & Pamela Glass (Director of Design, Growth)The mission of The New York Times is clear: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Fulfilling that takes creativity and expertise from every part of the company, and for teams that work on growing our subscriber base, it raises questions: How do we earn and maintain trust with millions of readers as they consider subscribing? How do we use experimentation and data responsibly to grow The Times? How do we help subscribers feel that their money is well…
6 Ways Traditional API Design Has Changed Forever (opens on the source site)
For over two decades, API design and architecture remained remarkably consistent. Perhaps it’s the outsized influence of Roy Fielding’s RESTful dissertation, but API designers have stuck to the principles of stateless architecture, resource-based endpoints, and HTTP commands to an impressive degree. That’s all starting to change, now that we’ve radically recontextualized the way we use ...
How I Used a Pinterest Board to Get Better Visual Results From Claude Design (opens on the source site)
I’ve been building out a portfolio site for my creative work. While I have hesitations about mixing AI with my art, I decided to use this website as an opportunity to try out Claude Design. Like most people who’ve tried generating a design with AI, I ran into the same issue over and over. I’d […] The post How I Used a Pinterest Board to Get Better Visual Results From Claude Design appeared first on Atomic Spin.
Eloquent Performance and Database Design: Evidence Before Eager Loading (opens on the source site)
A deep dive into Eloquent performance, from detecting N+1 queries to choosing aggregates, indexes, query plans, pagination, chunking, and transaction boundaries for a growing team dashboard. Read more
CR talk : Éloge du compromis (opens on the source site)
Ce talk revient sur le rôle du designer dans la transformation des organisations, à travers l'idée du compromis : pas une compromission, mais un engagement noble qui consiste à proposer une troisième voie là où deux camps s'opposent.
Can you design a chip? Announcing the protocol emulator ASIC competition (opens on the source site)
Last month, we asked you to reverse engineer a chip from nothing but its layout and teased a bigger challenge. Results and our favorite writeups are coming soon. In the meantime, here’s our next challenge! This time, you’re designing the chip, and we’ll pay to fabricate our favorite designs! We’re particularly interested in projects with unique functionality, as well as those that demonstrate novel approaches to design and verification methodologies! Winners will receive a fabricated copy of their chip, mounted on a dev boards, so they can test their design in real silicon. The challenge…
JSON Schema Design for Document AI: How to Structure ML Training Data That Actually Works (opens on the source site)
null Continue reading JSON Schema Design for Document AI: How to Structure ML Training Data That Actually Works on SitePoint.
Open by design: How Elastic supports MOSA, the DoD's Modular Open Systems Approach (opens on the source site)
Elastic ·
Major US defense acquisition programs are required to be designed around a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA). Here's what program offices need to know about how Elastic can support MOSA at the data and analytics layer.
How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md (opens on the source site)
Vercel ·
Across Vercel, we use coding agents to design and build pages that have to look and feel like Vercel. The typography, color, and composition all need to carry the same judgment that we put into the pages we already ship ourselves. We recently wrote about product-design, our skill that teaches agents how we design when they work in our codebases. The skill lives in each repository alongside the code that it governs, explaining how agents can find and understand our design system as well as product guidelines for whatever they are building. This works great when agents are working in our…
AAOS SDV - Secure by Design (opens on the source site)
Android ·
Posted by Markus Vill, Software Engineer, Sean Keys, Security Engineer, and Istvan Nador, Software Engineer, Android AutoAt Google, we believe our products should be secure by design, which is why we built the Android Automotive Operating System for Software Defined Vehicle (AAOS SDV) on existing, market-proven platforms, leveraging virtualization technologies like Cuttlefish. While our release announcements focused on the features, this blog post outlines some of the security concepts. Foundation: Domain IsolationVirtualization to isolate co-hosted instancesThe current trend of consolidating…
Is AI going to steal my job as a design engineer? (opens on the source site)
Tom Wilson reflects on what AI is changing for design engineers, and where human judgment still matters. He argues that agents can take over more of the scaffolding work, while product taste, restraint, and polished visual craft remain the real edge. Read more
WebFetch is ‘lossy’ by design: give your coding agent a better fetch in one command (opens on the source site)
Your coding agent built-in webfetch tool is not the best and it's hampering your research and coding workflows, fix it with one CLI tool and never face blocks again.
The Complete Guide to Writing Effective Software Design Documents (opens on the source site)
Toptal ·
A software design document turns high-level requirements into a technical blueprint before coding starts. This SDD guide offers writing tips, explains key sections, and flags common pitfalls.
AAOS SDV - Secure by Design (opens on the source site)
Android ·
Posted by Markus Vill, Software Engineer, Sean Keys, Security Engineer, and Istvan Nador, Software Engineer, Android Auto At Google, we believe our products should be secure by design, which is why we built the Android Automotive Operating System for Software Defined Vehicle (AAOS SDV) on existing, market-proven platforms, leveraging virtualization technologies like Cuttlefish. While our release announcements focused on the features, this blog post outlines some of the security concepts. Foundation: Domain Isolation Virtualization to isolate co-hosted instances The current trend of…
Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design (opens on the source site)
Organizations cannot solve shadow AI with a document employees read once. They need to make responsible use easier than improvised use.
Inside HAOQI.DESIGN: Letting DOM and WebGL Share a Retro-Futurist Stage (opens on the source site)
Codrops ·
A technical look at the making of HAOQI.DESIGN, exploring scroll sync, glass shaders, and the interplay of DOM, CSS, and WebGL in a retro-futurist portfolio.
From Motion to Meaning: Denis Avramenko’s Approach to Interactive Design (opens on the source site)
Codrops ·
A behind-the-scenes look at Denis Avramenko’s creative process, exploring his approach to motion, typography, interaction, and technology through a selection of digital projects.
Fair by design: orchestrating background jobs in Ruby (opens on the source site)
Are you treating your users fairly? They could be stuck in the queue while a greedy user monopolizes resources. And you might not even know it! In this post, you’ll see if it’s time for you to take background job prioritization seriously, and how to make it fair for all users.
+14% activated users for AppSignal: designing a new homepage in code (opens on the source site)
We designed and shipped a fresh AppSignal homepage in code, then validated it in an A/B test with a 14% lift in activated users.
Should we still design code for humans? (opens on the source site)
A few weeks ago I attended the Future of Software Engineering event in Engelberg, Switzerland. As you might expect from an event that happened in the middle of 2026, many conversations revolved around AI engineering practices and coding agents. I encountered a range of points of view at the event. Some spoke about preferring to keep agents on a tight leash, reviewing their output line by line to make sure it’s maintainable, well-partitioned and everything else we’ve come to associate with good software craftsmanship. Others claimed they'd rather delegate the majority of the software…
ClickHouse Schema Design and Data Modeling (opens on the source site)
Sometimes, we see ClickHouse queries that should normally complete in milliseconds take several seconds to finish or worse, time out entirely. When that happens, there is a good chance that the schema is the real culprit. The problem is often not the query itself, nor is it a hardware bottleneck. Instead, it can stem from […] The post ClickHouse Schema Design and Data Modeling appeared first on Severalnines.
The History of Kodee, Kotlin’s Mascot (opens on the source site)
Kotlin ·
A few years back, the Kotlin team figured it was time their programming language had a mascot – something fun and friendly to make developers feel more at home. After all, so many other programming languages have their own characters – Gofer, elePHPant, Dart’s Dash, or Rust’s Ferris, for example. Bringing Kodee to life wasn’t […]
Storybook Workbench: audit vibe-coded UIs and find hidden bugs in hours (opens on the source site)
Storybook Workbench is a bundle of Agent Skills that turn Storybook into an audit layer for AI-generated UIs: find dead components, design-system drift, and hidden accessibility bugs.
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