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Published on 12.02.2026
TLDR: GSAP's SplitText plugin claims screen reader support, but testing across eight browser-screen reader pairings shows it fails in six of them. If you are splitting words into individual DOM elements for animation, you are almost certainly breaking accessibility.
You Know What? Just Don't Split Words into Letters
TLDR: Design systems without active enforcement degrade into chaos through a thousand small compromises. The enforcer role is not about saying no -- it is about saying yes to the right things at the right time.
Your Design System Needs an Enforcer
TLDR: UX designers need to move upstream from polishing AI outputs to shaping model behavior. The new toolkit is data, context, and evaluations -- not wireframes and prototypes.
The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals
TLDR: AI assistants are reducing carefully crafted SaaS experiences to text-only interfaces. The fix is not generative UI but design-system-aware AI that renders rich, interactive components instead of paragraphs.
AI's text-trap: Moving towards a more interactive future
TLDR: Every platform boils down to three layers: surfaces (the opinionated UI), capabilities (the engine underneath), and extensions (the ecosystem). Getting the balance right between these layers determines whether your platform thrives or dies.
Surfaces, capabilities, and extensions
TLDR: One person spent eight hours scripting and curating Notion documentation after a Confluence migration, archiving 1,500 stale pages and establishing clear policies for ongoing maintenance. Practical, unglamorous, high-impact work.
Refactoring internal documentation in Notion
TLDR: The tension between legibility (standardized, manageable information) and metis (local, tacit knowledge) is being amplified by AI. Whether AI becomes a tool for collective sensemaking or top-down control depends on choices being made right now.
TBM 405: Hope, Context, and Control
TLDR: The attention economy's toxic logic has infected professional decision-making. Dashboard metrics rarely reflect actual strategy, and chasing them is not the same as doing valuable work.
The circular logic of our metrics
TLDR: You cannot stop people from gaming incentives, but you can choose the game. Three principles: know your desired outcome first, use multiple metrics to create healthy tension, and align incentives across groups.
TLDR: Grady Booch argues we are in the third golden age of software engineering -- the age of systems -- and AI tools represent another rise in abstraction, not the end of engineering. The existential panic is nothing new; the profession has survived every previous wave.