I am so pumped for the Flow team and what they have built. I've been fortunate to see this team execute over the last couple years and build something truly amazing that is transforming some of the worlds leading physical engineering companies workflows. 🙌@parisingh

This is huge. Don't sleep on what this team is building.

I'm back with a new pocket guide - 10 principles for better design critique. I've sat in hundreds of design crits over 30 years as a designer. These are tried and true. Hemeon’s Pocket Guide to Design Critique 01 / Same Team, Same Goal Critique is not a courtroom. It’s a shared effort to make the work better. The enemy is unclear thinking, weak craft, and lazy solutions. If it feels like combat, the culture is broken. 02 / Safety Is the Container People don’t risk honesty when they feel exposed. They perform. They defend. They shrink. Strong critique only happens inside trust. Tend the room before you touch the work. 03 / Honesty Without Harm Truth matters. So does delivery. Say the real thing, cleanly. You can be direct without being destructive. If people leave wounded instead of clearer, the moment failed. 04 / Critique the Artifact, Not the Human The work is not the person. The draft is not the designer. Speak to flows, clarity, and decisions. The moment feedback touches identity, growth stops. 05 / Don’t Break the Good, While Fixing the Bad. You can’t improve what you don’t yet understand. Naming strengths is not politeness. It’s precision. It tells the designer what to protect while they evolve. 06 / Taste Without Reason Is Noise “I don’t like it” is not critique. It’s mood. Real feedback anchors to users, goals, systems, constraints, or craft. If you can’t explain why, it’s preference. 07 / Turn Reactions Into Direction “Confusing” is a feeling, not feedback. Do the extra work. Translate reactions into requests. Direction moves the work forward. Vibes do not. 08 / Context Comes Before Solutions If you don’t understand the intent, you’re solving the wrong problem. Ask first. What’s the goal? What’s fixed? What’s fragile? Critique without context is theater. 09 / All Notes Are not Equal. A bug demands attention. A preference does not. When you label feedback clearly, the team can prioritize without emotional confusion. 10 / Many Voices, One Owner Choose a clear owner. 
Without ownership, critique becomes endless discussion. Thank you for reading. Drop a comment on the best tips you have for running a design crit. Would love to hear your ideas!

Pretty impressed with how fast Cursor is shipping. This is a huge step forward for designers cursor.com/blog/browser-visu…

This is the craziest model you'll see this week! This model powers Figma. It's also behind Wayfair and a bunch of major e-commerce retailers. This model is a PIXEL-PERFECT image editing model. Literally, "pixel perfect". The model is capable of modifying one image while keeping everything else untouched. It's a model designed, developed, and deployed by the research team at Jasper. This beats OpenAI models, Nano Banana, and every single general image model I've seen so far. It's up to 100x less expensive to run, and up to 10X faster. I recorded a quick video to show you how impressive this is. There's a ton of research behind this model. I'm adding two links below so you can read about how this model works, specifically about "Latent Bridge Matching" and "Flash Diffusion".

Brand Transformation of the Year!!! I couldn't be more proud of the team @heyjasperai 🙌

Simple, but genius: the Assist Rule.

Friendly reminder that one of the best things you can do for your own mental health today is to close this app, put down your phone, and go outside and express gratitude that you are here experiencing this life in all of it’s beauty and absurdity.

Just saw that Canva acquired Affinity. Such a powerful move on their part and clearly a move to reinforce their intention to unseat Adobe as THE creative platform for anyone. Thoughts on who wins the next era?

When you’re in the midst of building a product, you will often randomly stumble across an insight that completely invalidates your original thesis. In many cases, there will be no solution. And now you’re forced to pivot or start over completely. If you’ve only worked at a big company, you will be instinctually compelled to keep going because of how pivoting would reflect on stakeholders. This behavior is essentially ingrained in your subconscious—from years of constantly worrying about how things could jeopardize your performance review, and effectively your compensation. This is why so many dud products at BigCos will survive with anemic adoption. Instead, it’s important to build an almost academic culture of intellectual honesty—so that being wrong is met with a quick (and stoic) acceptance by everyone. There is nothing worse than a team that continues to chase a mirage.

Today seems to be full of awesomeness! Huge congrats to the team for shipping this. Consistently shipping groundbreaking new features and opening up even more creativity! 🙌

Aside from being one of the most stunning sites I’ve seen in a while, the level of execution from the Framer team is exceptional. So excited for the future of Framer and the web!

It’s been awesome to watch the team bring this to life. Definitely worth adding to the toolkit!

Pretty excited to check out catalog.radio

LFG! This is epic 👏👏👏