The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday02/12

1

seangoedecke.com

Large tech companies don’t need heroes

It's processes and incentives that determine what happens, not any individual heroics.

2

r74n.com

What are the odds?

Explore the probabilities of some of the rarest events in history.

3

uxdesign.cc

The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals

Designing how models behave.

4

interbrand.com

Best Global Brands 2025

Top 100 most valuable global brands according to Interbrand, with historical data since 2000.

5

lethain.com

Refactoring internal documentation in Notion

Making changes that actually work instead of optically sounding impressive.

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Wednesday02/11

1

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Saying “no” in an age of abundance

Wait, we have AI now. We don’t have to say no to 1,000 things. We can say yes to all the things — generate them all, simultaneously!!!1

2

ferrari.com

Ferrari Luce

A first look at the interior and interface of the Ferrari Luce, designed by Jony Ive.

3

dri.es

The software sovereignty scale

Digital sovereignty depends less on where software comes from and more on who controls it.

4

css-tricks.com

Trying to make the perfect pie chart in CSS

Can we make pie chart that’s semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library?

5

ralphammer.com

No more boring drawings

Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. Why are these drawings so boring?

Tuesday02/10

1

shaunbent.co.uk

Is there too much design in design systems?

Most design system roles are design-focused, but the biggest value comes from code. Are we building design systems, or just designing them?

2

glyphs.djr.com

DJR Glyph Navigator

Explore David Jonathan Ross’ type design, one letter at a time.

3

optical.toys

Optical Toys

A collection of optical illusions and optical toys by Toms Toys.

4

fffej.substack.com

Post-mortem theatre

I put a post-mortem in your post-mortem.

5

localghost.dev

Stop generating, start thinking

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

Monday02/09

1

bit.ly

How designers are actually using AI in 2026Sponsored

Designlab surveyed 200+ UX and product designers to see how AI fits into real workflows. Download the full report.

2

jernesto.com

I miss thinking hard

When was the last time you truly thought hard?

3

rentahuman.ai

Rent a Human

Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can’t do. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments.

4

smashingmagazine.com

Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox

How they are different, what purpose they serve, and how to choose the right one.

5

evjang.com

As rocks may think

Whenever logical processes of thought are employed there is an opportunity for the machine.

Friday02/06

1

quinnkeast.com

What, then, are we paying for?

Software is problem ownership.

2

hvpandya.com

Power prompts in Claude Code

A single natural language prompt that runs parallel agents, captures visual regression screenshots, and creates reusable skills in Claude Code.

3

beige.party

No, I do not want to install your app

Maybe if we repeat this every day, we'll eventually internalize it.

4

arthurpetrillo.photography

Aqui, Lá, Acolá

Photographer Arthur Petrillo (they/them) traces a poetic cartography of belonging across the UK, Brasil, and Japan.

5

chrbutler.com

Progress without disruption

There’s nothing about progress that inherently requires disruption—except our inability to cooperate for stability.

Thursday02/05

1

unsung.aresluna.org

How to shoot a screen using a board of keys

The world is divided into two groups: people who know how to take screenshots in a Mac, and...

2

givingwhatwecan.org

Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

3

intertapes.net

Intertapes

Obscure tape finds and their stories.

4

softwaredesign.ing

Doing the thing is doing the thing

We all need a good reminder.

5

ishadeed.com

The too early breakpoint

An opinion on why we shouldn’t switch to the smallest design too early.

Wednesday02/04

1

blog.xiangpeng.systems

Stop building systems for agents

Build agent systems for humans instead.

2

alttextselfies.net

Alt Text Selfies

This project takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.

3

terrygodier.com

Phantom obligation

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that’s doing to us.

4

aatishb.com

Pattern collider

Create and share mathematical tiling patterns.

5

peterboeckel.com

The displacement of purpose

What happens with purpose when AI automates our labor.

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