Resources

These are resources I come back to often. Not because they’re trendy, but because they’ve earned their place. Whether it’s designing inclusive interfaces, working with systems, or trying to make sense of AI, each one offers something useful, considered, or perspective-shifting. Good for sharing when people ask.

Accessibility & inclusive design

Thoughtful takes on how to make things that work for more people, not just meet a spec.

Inclusive Components
Practical, deep explorations of accessible UI patterns by Heydon Pickering
An introduction to APCA
The future of colour contrast? I hope so.
Amy Hupe – Sharing Research in Design Systems
Shows how research can shape more empathetic, inclusive systems
WAI Perspectives videos
Short explainers that help frame accessibility as a design and human rights issue

Design systems & scalable thinking

Not just components — the stuff behind the stuff.

EightShapes – Tokens in Design Systems
A foundational read on where tokens fit
Alla Kholmatova – Design Systems
The book that taught me to look beyond UI kits
Design system documentation made using Zeroheight
Real-world examples of system documentation done well

Content, language & systems of understanding

Because design is also how you explain things, not just how you shape them.

GOV.UK Content Style Guide
Clarity, not cleverness
Dropbox’s writing principles
For voice, tone, and calm communication
Every Layout
A quietly radical way to think about layout systems and the web
Ethical Design Guide
Tools and frameworks for designing with care

Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models

Thinking through the hype: how to work with AI and LLMs in a way that supports creativity and inclusion.

The UK Government's Incubator for Artificial Intelligence
The AI Playbook for the UK Government
Sean Savage – AI Pace Layers
An interesting metaphor for how to think about AI’s layers of change
Norman Nielsen Group – Accessibility in the Age of AI
Covers both risks and opportunities
Inclusive AI Design Toolkit
Co-created with disability advocacy groups, focuses on creative tools
Stanford HAI – Disability, Bias, and AI
A primer on ableism in algorithmic systems
AI Design Principles by Google PAIR
A good starting point for generative toolmakers
Transactions on Machine Learning Research survey output
A curated list of language modeling researches for code (and other software engineering activities), plus related datasets
Artificial Analysis' LLM Leaderboard
Comparison and ranking the performance of over 30 LLM models