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Why design substrates win the next decade

The next layer of design tooling is invisible. It's the layer beneath the components, beneath the system, beneath the framework — and the team that owns that layer owns the surface area above it.

Plover Hexstrom · 8 min read · May 02 2026
Engineering

Container queries are the new media queries

Three years in, the bet has paid: every viewport breakpoint we wrote in 2019 is now a container query.

Apr 28 2026 · Plover Hexstrom
Motion

Aurora — a DAW for the web

Why we modeled the timeline editor on a digital audio workstation, and what that unlocked for non-developers.

Apr 21 2026 · Plover Hexstrom
Design

Surface-aware components, in practice

Drop the same card on four different surfaces. It adapts without a single style override. Here's how.

Apr 14 2026 · Plover Hexstrom