Editorial reporting on design systems, product craft, and the tools reshaping the discipline.
Design coverage on The Stack Stories looks at the discipline as a working practice — token architectures, design-engineering pipelines, and how AI is reshaping the tools designers use every day. We assume our readers ship real products and skip the debates that don't affect the work.
Editor's Picks
Design systems have quietly become plumbing. We surveyed the largest public systems, tracked what changed in the tooling, and mapped where the interesting design-engineering work is happening now.
Cursor, Claude Code, Replit Agent and the rest reframed the act of programming inside twelve months. We audited the shipping data — pull request size, review depth, incident rates — to ask whether the productivity gains are real, and what they cost.
Google's third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome — long-delayed, much-mocked — finally moved in 2025. We map what actually replaced the cookie for measurement, targeting, and retargeting, and where the seams still leak.
