The five best design links, every weekday

Friday08/28

1

ajwaxman.com

Software for one

Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.

2

itsnicethat.com

Step inside Teddy Blanks’ film title design process

Teddy Blanks, the Chips co-founder behind the title sequences for Barbie, Weapons and Robert Eggers’ upcoming Werwulf, unpacked.

3

borretti.me

Futurism is always extreme

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

4

claude.com

The AI-native SDLC playbook

Anthropic’s stage-by-stage playbook for the AI-native SDLC: how teams plan, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain software with Claude.

5

gatesnotes.com

The turbulent AI era is here

If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.

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Thursday08/27

1

petermerholz.com

Design’s legibility gap

The concept of ‘legibility,’ and why it's crucial to understanding why UX/Design struggles within so many organizations.

2

cssunits.com

CSS Units

A complete interactive reference to every CSS measurement unit. From the basics of px and rem to the nuances of svh, dvh, and cqw.

3

henry.codes

I dream of quieter computing

A quick note about future of computing and indieweb.

4

plotter.cc

Plotter

Occasional works of short fiction.

5

ilyabirman.net

Let me click

How interfaces prevent input errors by resolving invalid states automatically rather than disabling options or displaying errors.

Wednesday08/26

1

uxdesign.cc

What is the purpose of software

Mapping 50 years of economic data to measure software's productivity yield.

2

gkurt.com

Tegaki

Animated handwriting from any font.

3

karlkoch.me

On teaching AI how you work

Personal skills turn years of writing into loadable judgement you can install instead of re-explaining, and one command that runs all of it.

4

interfaces.kylejeong.com

The AI Interface Museum

A visual history of how humans learned to interact with AI.

5

about.gitlab.com

When code is abundant

Producing code is getting cheap. Trusting it is not. Why enterprises need a durable layer of context, verification, and governance around AI.

Tuesday08/25

1

ilyabirman.net

Vibe coding and quality

Just last year, vibe coding seemed like a toy. Today I think that high quality is achievable only through vibe coding

2

blog.murphytrueman.com

Every fork looks like adoption

How we measure design system adoption and how the graph keeps going up anyway.

3

is-agentic.com

Is Agentic

Score how ready a website is for AI agents, then get evidence and recommendations to improve it.

4

balsa-ui.com

Balsa UI

Balsa UI is an agent-native, open-code component system for Vue and React.

5

youtube.com

Susan Kare: Designing icons & graphics for the original Mac

Stories behind the Happy Mac, Command key, Chicago font, and more, along with the design lessons Susan learned from Steve Jobs and others.

Monday08/24

1

bit.ly

The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory for your AI Agents. Without a meeting bot. Try it in your next meeting.

2

var0.xyz

Perfection is not over-engineering

The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They’re not the same.

3

elliotjaystocks.com

Keeping type consistent in changing conditions

How typographic grade preserves visual balance across screens and print substrates without altering layout geometry.

4

utopia.fyi

Fluid type scale calculator

Generate CSS clamp functions for fluid typography scales, automating responsive font sizing across viewports.

5

how.complexsystems.fail

How complex systems fail

Latent flaws, hindsight bias, and operator adaptation. Offering product teams a framework for system safety.

Friday08/21

1

sunilpai.dev

The task isn’t the job

A new role, and some questions I want to build my way through.

2

doc.cc

Syntax

This series examines core concepts shaping our designed world, tracing their origins and dissecting their practical significance.

3

academy.claude.com

Claude Academy

Free courses, tutorials, and use cases from Anthropic — whether you’re exploring AI, getting started with Claude, or rolling it out to your team.

4

rip.so

RIP.so: the digital graveyard

A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.

5

uxdesign.cc

How to become an AI Designer

A realistic guide to shipping your own designs.

Thursday08/20

1

adobe.design

Is design dead in the age of AI?

No, but it’s undergoing a revision. Written by Jessica Walsh.

2

pi.fyi

Do you miss the old internet?

Before vibeless algo curation, psychopath CEOs, tech bros, and influencers took over? You came to the right place.

3

yeptype.com

How to choose a UI font (and 10 Inter alternatives)

Tired of Inter being everywhere? Two real criteria—cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height—for choosing a UI font.

4

meodai.github.io

Poline: esoteric color palette generation

Poline is a lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript.

5

blog.maximeheckel.com

Shading motion

Detecting, extracting, and stylizing motion with WebGPU and TSL, covering motion masking, blob tracking, optical flow, and velocity-based motion blur.

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