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Notes from people who ship.
Short pieces from our teachers on code, design, data and AI tools, and on how we make the courses.
· 2 min read
Auto layout is a shelf, not a spreadsheet
The mental model that finally makes Figma's auto layout click, and why it makes handoff easier too.
Ingrid Halvorsen
· 1 min read
The query behind every dashboard
Most product dashboards are the same four lines of SQL. Learn them once and you can check any number yourself.
Lucía Moreno
· 1 min read
What AI can't do for your user research
AI tools are great at summarising interviews. They are bad at noticing what people didn't say.
Sofia Ricci
· 1 min read
Naming design tokens so they last
A token called blue-500 breaks the day the brand changes. Name tokens for what they do, not what they look like.
Anders Lindqvist
· 1 min read
How we make a course
Every Lexington course starts as a real project a teacher shipped. Here's how it becomes four lessons.
Ingrid Halvorsen