An annotated reading list: books, articles, tools, talks, and sites that shape how Akash thinks about design and craft.https://akkiipc.com/en-ushttps://akkiipc.com/library/the-design-of-everyday-things/https://akkiipc.com/library/the-design-of-everyday-things/The book that taught a generation of designers to look at door handles and bus stops and ask whose fault it is when people get it wrong. Still the cleanest articulation of affordances and signifiers I have read.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTBookuxfundamentalsaffordanceshttps://akkiipc.com/library/grid-systems/https://akkiipc.com/library/grid-systems/The original argument that a grid is not a constraint but a generator. Old, Swiss, exact, and still the single most useful thing you can hand a junior who is overstacking a layout.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTBooktypographylayoutprinthttps://akkiipc.com/library/refactoring-ui/https://akkiipc.com/library/refactoring-ui/A field manual written for developers who design and designers who code. Every chapter is a small, ruthlessly specific tactic — exactly the kind of thing the rest of the design canon refuses to talk about.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBookuidesign-systemwebhttps://akkiipc.com/library/figma-config-talks/https://akkiipc.com/library/figma-config-talks/The talks I rewatch in batches when I am about to start a new system or motion rework. Less theory than most conferences, more "here is how we ship it on a real team.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTalkdesign-systemmotionconferenceshttps://akkiipc.com/library/cloudflare-developer-blog/https://akkiipc.com/library/cloudflare-developer-blog/Where my self-hosting habit actually gets fed. Pages, Workers, KV, R2, and Durable Objects all live here, plus the kind of post-mortem writing the rest of the industry should be doing.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSiteinfrastructurewebself-hostinghttps://akkiipc.com/library/worrydream-magic-ink/https://akkiipc.com/library/worrydream-magic-ink/A 30,000-word essay that splits software into "information" and "manipulation" and shows that most products treating themselves as the second should be designed as the first.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTArticleinteractioninformation-designux