The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday10/27

1

algoroxyolo.github.io

Knowing how is not knowing what

What RL environments need to supply: organizational context, domain rules and connected information.

2

howsadisthischapter.com

How sad is this chapter?

Find out how emotionally devastating a chapter is before you read it.

3

mattstromawn.com

Code review was never about the code

Code review was always meant as a verification step: does the code produce the outcome we want?

4

creativeboom.com

André Britz’s landscapes, bound with a pink elastic band

Intuitive drawings of places made from memory alone, in a 64-page book designed to feel unfinished.

5

mixfont.com

Decoy Font: a TTF font that hides what you type

Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type.

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Monday10/26

1

craftwork.design

Craftwork: UI made by real designersSponsored

Figma UI kits, Framer templates, fonts, React components, icons, 3D and mockups made by real designers. Use them in Figma or through your AI agent.

2

hrih.si

Who holds the off switch?

What the 2026 numbers say about privacy and control, and guesses for where the privacy business goes next.

3

archive.org

Vintage AI

A curated collection of early computer software claiming some aspect of artificial intelligence as a primary feature.

4

youtube.com

Design and engineering are the same thing

John Maeda on why makers need to understand people and communicate.

5

intentapp.dev

Intent Design System

Intent logos, colors, typography, iconography, foundations, and components.

Friday10/23

1

shannadige.com

Fast is a design decision

Building a site has never been cheaper, but making it fast still costs attention and your user’s resources.

2

visualrambling.space

Moving objects in 3D space

Have you ever wondered how to move objects along a spherical helix path?

3

antonsten.com

Where decisions live

Slack for discussion, meetings to resolve, notes for thinking, and a dated decisions log for where things landed.

4

creativeboom.com

Apple Music’s new logo was shaped by sound and mineral oil

Created with TBWA\Media Arts Lab, the new identity is full of ripples made by sound.

5

backgrounds.supply

Gradient background generator

A free gradient background generator with 20+ animated shader modes.

Thursday10/22

1

doc.cc

The fastest gun in UX

Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is stakeholder alignment.

2

design.interfere.com

Interfere Design System

Components, styles and guidelines for building Interfere products.

3

gabrielvaldivia.com

Everyone is starting over

The careers that thrive now are the ones willing to become someone new, over and over.

4

lightbulbcomputer.com

The Lightbulb Computer

A device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb.

5

anthropic.com

How employment is changing at Anthropic

Anthropic could be a leading indicator of how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy.

Wednesday10/21

1

apeatling.com

Your product is not the center of the universe

Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them.

2

seangoedecke.com

AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects

If AI is so great, why aren’t we seeing an explosion of new, amazing software products?

3

toolcraft.sh

Toolcraft

An open-source starter kit and UI library for building custom design apps with AI.

4

editui.app

EditUI

Point at your UI. Tell your coding agent what to change.

5

maxschmitt.me

A simple guide to calm UI

A few basic rules to keep in mind to make simple UIs feel a lot better.

Tuesday10/20

1

uxdesign.cc

Design in the material you ship

Designers should understand code the way an architect understands stone: what it can do, not how to cut it. AI now does the cutting.

2

davedavies.dev

State of Ecommerce Accessibility 2026

An audit of 59,400 ecommerce product pages. 64% had at least one automatically detected accessibility failure rated critical.

3

world.hey.com

Acceptance

If you haven’t accepted that these things are smarter than you, even in your own domain of expertise, I’m sorry.

4

logo.dev

Logo.dev MCP server

Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, or any MCP client to Logo.dev, and let your agent look up brands, logos, and brandmarks.

5

newsletter.posthog.com

38 things we’ve learned about building AI products

Lessons from four years of building AI products at PostHog.

Monday10/19

1

bit.ly

Beautiful icons that make products feel premiumSponsored

Hugeicons offers 60,000+ icons across 10 styles for Figma, React, Font, and more. Fully customizable, beautifully crafted.

2

karrisaarinen.com

Someone behind the software

I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.

3

programasweights.com

English ↔ Claudish

A bidirectional English and Claudish translator powered by compiled 0.6B neural programs.

4

technooptimism.org

Techno-optimism archive

Old promises of new technologies.

5

marcabraham.com

Personal agents are getting their own computers

The question is no longer whether an agent can answer my questions. It’s whether I’m willing to let it act on my behalf.

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