Design6 minB
Designing in the browser, not in Figma.
Why our team retired the static mock six months ago — and what we replaced it with. The case for designing live, in code, against real data.
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Sara KöhlerApr 28Notesfrom thestudio.
Essays, deep-dives and case notes from the team — what we're learning about design systems, AI products, and the craft of shipping.
Featured · Essay12 min read
May 12, 2026 · Devon Arias
Why AI features fail in production — and what to ship instead.
After deploying retrieval pipelines for fourteen products in 2025, a pattern emerged: most AI features die not from bad models but from bad surfaces. Here's our playbook for shipping copilots users actually open — five principles, eight anti-patterns, and the eval loop that saved our biggest launch.
AI9 min⊕
The eval loop that saved our copilot.
A practical, boring system for catching regressions before users do. Fixtures, scorecards, gold sets, and the meeting we run every Friday.
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Imran SheikhApr 14Engineering7 min↧
Sticky scroll, the right way.
The four CSS techniques we use to make stacks, panels, and reveals feel buttery — without scroll-jacking or scroll-jank.
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Marta VidalMar 30Design5 min◇
Tokens are a product, not a deliverable.
Five years of design systems taught us this: tokens need a roadmap, a release notes channel, and somebody whose job it is to ship them.
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Aiden ParkMar 11Studio notes14 minN
How we shipped Nestaro in 14 weeks.
A behind-the-scenes look at our biggest 2025 launch: the brief, the timeline, the moments that nearly broke us, the call that saved it.
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Rina MehtaFeb 22Design4 mini
A short defense of the italic headline.
One typographic choice — and the eight reasons it shows up in every Foxmen brief. Yes, including this one.
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Léa BouchardFeb 04AI11 minR
Retrieval, but make it boring.
RAG is mostly plumbing. Here's our hard-won checklist for a retrieval stack you can actually leave alone for a quarter.
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Imran SheikhJan 19Engineering8 min≡
The case for monorepos in design agencies.
Why our 38 active client codebases live in one repo, what it cost to get there, and the day it paid for itself ten times over.
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Daniel TanJan 06Case studies10 minA
Atlas: shipping an iOS travel app in 9 weeks.
From Figma to App Store, with AI-generated itineraries and offline maps. A complete project breakdown — scope, stack, sprint cadence.
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Yuki OnoDec 18Monthly