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We published our guide to designing interfaces with AI straight on our website.

Musings on redesigning software, user's mental models and guidelines on what to do when redesigning.

Three months into the company, we're revised our offering. In this post we discuss our updated design services.

We wrote a free guide to designing interfaces with AI. We are using these techniques get to better prototypes for validation faster.

We finally put the new Obra website live.

A client might come to us with the question to design a logo; but in our minds, it’s the start of a larger branding process.

The last two workdays were spent using a combination of Claude, Figma, Cursor, and Wispr Flow to work on an HTML prototype.

I’ve used a new technique that I’ve called prompt wireframing where I use a combination of tools to get the job done.

I would like to take a stand against “design systems” as standalone work; meetings to “officialize” components and designers building three tier token…

My Obra Icons project has always been available from the website, but now you can also use the Figma plugin. Earlier this week, we also released a package…

Did you know that macOS comes with some wonderful, super high quality fonts that normally cost hundreds or thousands of euros to license? I believe they…

Today I was converting an mp4 video to a gif and I figured I’d document some commands that helped in the process. I used ffmpeg to do this. You can…

Have you ever seen the LEGO documentary on Disney+? It talks about the history of LEGO and if you’ve seen it, you might be familiar with a phrase that’s…

Having been released this week, type variables are the new hotness in Figma. If you want to know the details I recommend this excellent post by Joey…

Good post from Jim Nielsen about the case for design engineers. He gives a good example of the kind of implementation detail where you might need insight…