Top story
Bring disabled users into research earlier
Booking.com’s accessibility research practice offers a concrete model for making disabled participants—and their lived experience—a regular part of product discovery.

Top story
Booking.com’s accessibility research practice offers a concrete model for making disabled participants—and their lived experience—a regular part of product discovery.

The briefing
6 stories selected by editors, summarized for busy design teams.
Maya Alvarado explains how Booking.com is strengthening research practices so disabled people are better represented and their needs shape product decisions earlier.
Figma’s Jake Albaugh argues that AI speed needs stronger product judgment, efficient design-system foundations, and enough craft to avoid shipping fast into technical debt.
Framer’s August Community update adds a Likes tab, mobile Buy and Use for Free actions, creator contact controls, and a set of feed and profile refinements.
Aaron T. Grogg’s open reference collects accordions, carousels, dialogs, tabs, scrolling effects, and other patterns that can run with no—or very little—JavaScript.
Content designer Nick DiLallo distills lessons from writing across languages, time zones, and cultures, focusing on the choices that help interface copy work at global scale.
Figma’s examples show how teams can encode repeatable instructions as markdown skills, helping its agent apply a designer’s point of view more consistently.
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