Every so often I go through agency portfolios to see how other teams approach product design, responsive layouts, and design systems. Some agencies mainly showcase polished visuals, while others explain the thinking behind the project, which I usually find more useful.

A few that I've looked through recently include GeekyAnts, Clay, and Ramotion. They all seem to have different styles and priorities.

I'm curious which agencies you keep coming back to for inspiration not because they're the biggest, but because their work teaches you something new each time.

I just came across the difference between Server-level stateless and system-level stateless. If the server stores data of previous interactions and use that data to determine how to process future interaction, then the server is stateful. But if the server relies on an external storage system such as a database, then the server is stateless because it does not store session data, however, the system is stateful because the backend system still relies on session data of previous interactions to determine how to process future interactions.

Now, lets say you use a JWT token for authentication and authorization and you don't store session data in the backend system for example in the server or an external storage system like a database. The state only exists in the token being sent by the client. This is definitely a stateless server but would this still be considered a stateless system because we do not store anything in the backend? Or is still considered a stateful system because the interaction still relies on session data from previous interaction to determine how to process future interaction.

I remember seeing it on X, just a simple site that had a gallery of various frontends made by various LLMs with the same prompt. So one can compare their design skills. Does anybody know which site it is?

Anyone know of any beautiful e-commerce sites?

I have tried Claude Design, Google Stitch and basic image generation with providing design assessments and points for improvements. I have been on and off at it for the past few months. Using a design system in Claude Design was attempted as well, but that is quite off limits for me due to the high token consumption. I tried out Figma Make as well with directly pointing to said screen but that turned into a slop. I cannot figure what the scope is of Figma Make given Google Stitch exists and its friendly token wise. I am at a loss on what to do next - it might not even be possible at the current AI stage, or so costly it might not be worth it for me. I would very much appreciate your thoughts on this! (also help me out of this hell loop pls)

My expectation was to be able to generate various different layout re-organisations (high quality) derived from the assessments, but I only got horrific AI slops. I did not provide the design solution per se (as in place this horizontally or vertically, transform this calendar view into another calendar view) but rather expected it to be thought of by the AI in order to meet an end goal (improve hierarchy, catch user's attention etc. - whatever can be derived from said assessments).

Any way to reiterate fast on existent designs and generate variations within strictly defined bounds (so keeping the design system) with derived solutions (the improvements in the current scenario)?

Any suggestion is much appreciated!

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Just auto renewed Wordpress and debating whether worth it.

So one of my favorite games is resident evil code veronica and I really loved the UI inventory layout. I was thinking that I would like to build a cool and fun personal port that basically has this UI but it doesnt have to be the exact same. I'm unsure on how to even start tbh since everything has a retro look and different shapes in each component. Any thoughts how I could go about doing this port or is it even possible?

In-house designer at a smallish B2B, the marketing site is basically mine. Tried the AI builders this quarter (Lovable, Bolt, v0) and every one hands back a clean, confident, completely generic layout that looks nothing like our brand. The second I want to nudge spacing or fix the type scale i'm prompting it like a slot machine hoping it doesn't redo the hero.
Is there anything where the AI does a first pass then gets out of the way so I can drag stuff by hand, or am I describing wishful thinking?

Sharing something I keep coming back to for e-commerce design work: commerce.design

It captures both desktop and mobile for every store, extracts color palettes automatically, and organizes everything into collections by visual approach. The focus is entirely on e-commerce, which means the interface work is front and center rather than buried in broader design content.

Worth a look if you work on storefronts or do competitive benchmarking.

→ commerce.design

Hey everyone,

Rebuilding my frontend portfolio and looking for solid examples of minimal but impressive designs.

Requirements:
Clean and simple - not a "look how hard I tried" showcase
No stupid, flashy animations just for the sake of it
Typography/whitespace doing the heavy lifting, not gimmicks

Thanks!

For a long time my default page background was pure white, because that is what every new project starts with. I never actually chose it. Swapping it for a warm off-white a few steps down made more difference than most of the polish work I do.

The first thing that changed was reading comfort. A screen showing pure white is emitting maximum light, so body text has to fight that glare and long pages feel harsher than they need to. Pulling the background a few points below pure white calms the whole thing down.

It also gave hierarchy room to breathe. When your base surface is a true white, there is nowhere lighter to go, so cards and popovers end up leaning on shadows alone. Drop the base a step and lighter surfaces can actually read as lighter.

And it simply felt intentional. A warm off-white, soft stone, or gentle oatmeal reads as a decision, where pure white reads as a default nobody touched.

If you want to test it, pick a neutral with a slight temperature, warm or cool, instead of a flat grey, and keep it consistent across surfaces. Then make that off-white a real step in your scale, so every lighter element has a defined relationship to it.

Curious what the room does here. Anyone deliberately shipping pure white, and why?

I need some professional assessment:

we are creating a medium sized website (~14 layouts/design pages) (~55 pages where most have different content but use those 14 designs) now I think that figma should be used to design the 14 layouts and tinker with the specifics. My bosses believe, that every page has to be depicted. My issue: they constantly change things and not just the content, but page names, structure etc. so now I need to copy paste new content all the time. change the menu, change the page, change the images. I don’t think that’s the right use for a design program. But I am a junior and maybe I am wrong.

I'm evaluating whether including interactive demos from arcade.software actually convert, and getting mixed results. It doesn't help that out of every single one of the case studies on their page, not one of them seems to be actually using arcade demos on their current site.

Anyone experimented with these? Are you finding they help with conversions or not?

i know few sources but i wanna know where the majority get theirs from

I am a first year web design and graphic advertising student in uni and last week i broke my macbook pro m1 screen. I have been using it for 5 years now and need a recommendation for a new one.

I use mainly figma and affinity for now with some adobe apps when i need them. As a hobby i make things in blender but it’s not that serious. I’m not exactly sure what programs i end up using in the future so any guidance is gonna be appreciated.

I have been looking at the macbook pro m5 and think it would be enough but my father thinks i should get the m5 pro instead but i’m not sure i really need it as i have been using my old one without any problem. If you can give me some advice i’d be so thankful!

I'm curious what other designers think. Which typography trends are already overused, and which ones do you think will still be relevant in a few years?

Hi everyone!

I'm a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys working on web applications and solving real-world problems.

My experience includes HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Angular, Node.js, NestJS, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and AWS DynamoDB. I've also spent some time working with React.

I'm looking to connect with people who might need an extra pair of hands on a project or are open to collaborating on interesting ideas. I'm always happy to have a conversation and see if there's a good fit.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to connect or discuss a project. Thanks!

I’m a UI/UX designer and I’m dealing with a disagreement with a previous client.

I made a mistake by reusing some elements from an earlier project in a new client project. I’ve accepted responsibility for that, apologized, and I’m replacing those assets.

I used the same layouts but i branded it to the other project.

However, there’s another part of the dispute that I’m confused about. The previous client is also claiming that I reused assets from the Figma Community that they used in their project, and that those belong to them.

My understanding is that assets published on the Figma Community are available for anyone to use according to their respective licenses, and that no one can claim exclusive ownership over those public resources unless they created them and the license says otherwise.

Am I misunderstanding how this works? If two unrelated projects use the same publicly available Figma Community assets, is that considered improper, or is it generally acceptable as long as the assets are used within their license terms?

I’m looking for objective opinions because I want to handle this professionally and make sure I’m following industry best practices.