The five best design links, every weekday

Friday09/11

1

sjg.io

AI is making us build too much

AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.

2

edoardolunardi.github.io

Kugiri (区切り)

Splits text into lines, words and characters exactly where the browser already broke it.

3

dontasktoask.com

Don’t ask to ask, just ask

If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we?

4

worseonpurpose.com

Why products get worse

Where quality lives, and how companies drain it from your products without a metric moving.

5

ky.fyi

Building data-driven design systems

How I scaled Scribe’s design system to help serve over 6 million users.

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Thursday09/10

1

distributedthoughts.org

One floor up

OpenAI and Anthropic describe agents reaching real systems during evaluations. The capability is here. So is the work of containing it.

2

the-brandidentity.com

GridScout’s brand identity

How industrial visual languages build credibility with field crews and corporate boards alike.

3

newsletter.baselinedesign.com

Naming the middle

Notes on the semantic layer of a design system.

4

dialkit.dev

DialKit

Tune interfaces in real time and make the details feel right. DialKit puts live controls beside the interface you’re building.

5

ibelick.com

Anatomy of AI input

Understanding the structure of an AI input, layer by layer.

Wednesday09/09

1

design.lightspark.com

Limit the number of details

Every detail asks for attention. Limiting how many we add is what gives us room to make the ones that remain better.

2

worldlabs.ai

Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence

A new omni world model for spatial intelligence, that can perform a broad range of tasks spanning world generation, reconstruction, and simulation.

3

opensourceui.in

Opensource UI

A free, MIT-licensed copy-paste library of 200+ production-ready React and Next.js components. Built with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS v4.

4

casestudy.club

The designer who drew Cursor’s icons

Marek Minor drew Cursor’s complete icon set, more than 600 icons by hand.

5

voiceinthemachine.com

Four questions about AGI

How much work that undefined term is being asked to do, and an attempt to understand it better.

Tuesday09/08

1

uxdesign.cc

When the canvas starts acting, who’s really in control?

How agentic interfaces are changing what designers control, from interactions to agency, orchestration and attention.

2

calpaterson.com

Agent memory as a file format

A vastly simpler way to do agent memory

3

recipetables.com

RecipeTables

Any recipe at a glance. Paste a recipe (or a URL) and get it back as a nested prep table. Ingredients as rows, steps as merged columns.

4

lucet.design

Lucet

AI interface patterns for what comes next: the missing states designed, the missing features working.

5

jennywanger.com

Burnt out on a three-day week

She works three days a week. She’s still burnt out. When rest doesn’t fix the exhaustion, the workload was never the problem.

Monday09/07

1

ref.wisprflow.ai

Are you still typing your prompts, really?Sponsored

Flow makes writing quick and clear with seamless voice dictation. It is the fastest, smartest way to type with your voice.

2

blog.mastykarz.nl

Your product didn’t get worse

Customers still like your product and keep renewing. Meanwhile, their expectations may be changing in ways your usual signals won’t reveal.

3

looogos.com

Looogos

A curated collection of logos discovered in the wild for design inspiration.

4

fourmodes.teybannerman.com

Four modes of working with AI

A practical framework for getting better results from AI tools. Four modes, dozens of scenarios, ready-to-use prompts.

5

nyn.me

The singular viable product

Why software built for one is no longer an escape from scale, but its new starting point.

Friday09/04

1

medium.com

AI is making development faster. But where did the work go?

When AI makes one part of product development faster, what happens to the rest of the system?

2

the-brandidentity.com

A geometric typeface made for the age of AI

The Neurath X Collection began with a question: what might geometric typography look like in the age of AI?

3

normaltools.com

Normal Tools

Small, useful online tools that work directly in your browser.

4

rebeccawilliams.info

Unwinding the great tech power grab

How tech has atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it.

5

judgmentkit.ai

JudgmentKit

Stop AI from building the wrong interface. Help AI agents understand the user’s work, choose the right interface, and repair what does not fit.

Thursday09/03

1

uxdesign.cc

The call for an agentic standard

We need to stop shipping the same form four different times.

2

soverybright.com

Make your logo brighter than white

Upload a logo, choose what glows, download an HDR JPEG. Free — nothing is stored.

3

commandline.microsoft.com

Designing product simplicity for the agentic AI era

Shared design components aren’t enough to ensure a seamless product experience. Can designers create consistency by embracing simplicity?

4

mesurer.dev

Mesurer

Inspect, annotate, and give feedback on any live interface. Share feedback with your agents and your team.

5

stripeeconomics.com

AI and the city

More businesses are forming outside major metros, but big cities still matter for frontier tech.

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