The five best design links, every weekday

Wednesday06/17

1

tonsky.me

Every frame perfect

How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product.

2

gridlanes.webkit.org

The field guide to CSS Grid Lanes

Create masonry layouts in pure CSS. Absorb the possibilities with the Field Guide’s interactive playground.

3

blog.stdlib.io

What we’re no longer seeing: AI and the invisible newcomer in open source

How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.

4

cssbuttons.io

CSS Buttons

A diverse collection of over 100 unique button styles. Get the code you need to enhance your web projects with stylish, functional buttons.

5

blog.murphytrueman.com

What Figma made visible

And whether the next generation of practitioners will get the same thing.

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Tuesday06/16

1

yusufaytas.com

Vibe Coder vs Software Engineer

Vibe coding is useful for discovery, but software engineering starts when generated code has to be reviewed, owned, operated, and safely changed.

2

wiki.wordsoftype.com

Words of Type

Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.

3

blog.damato.design

Lawful Design

The least fun but most required part of our work.

4

worldcupmap.app

World Cup Map 2026

An interactive 3D globe showing every match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup — browse by date, group, team, or city.

5

arun.is

How Japan’s railways stayed one while splitting apart

When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.

Monday06/15

1

bit.ly

html.to.design — New Chrome extension featureSponsored

Capture entire webpages (or sections), copy to clipboard, Ctrl+V into Figma, start editing.

2

uxdesign.cc

The flaw is the feature

What is polish actually worth?

3

extend.ai

Extend UI

Open source UI kit for modern document apps. React components for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV viewers, file upload, e-signing, and more.

4

kasperjunge.com

Everyone got excited they can suddenly code, and completely missed the point

Coding agents made software cheap to build. That just exposed the bottleneck that was always there: deciding what to build.

5

influence.citationneeded.news

Tech Influence Watch

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

Friday06/12

1

maeda.pm

For most of my career I designed the cockpit

The functional alignment between AI capabilities and human intent.

2

shrtcts.click

Know your shortcuts

An interactive 3D keyboard for learning the keyboard shortcuts of the apps you use every day.

3

truehenrique.com

Single responsibility, the distorted principle

How the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) is often misinterpreted and how to apply it correctly to avoid overengineering and underengineering.

4

boneyard.vercel.app

Boneyard: skeleton screens for your UI

Pixel-perfect skeleton loading screens auto-extracted from your real DOM. Zero configuration, zero layout shift.

5

antmurphy.me

Exploring vs Exploiting

The two modes of product discovery.

Thursday06/11

1

buzzusborne.com

Discovery vs Delivery

A personal perspective on AI, product quality and the growing divide between deciding what should exist and efficiently building it.

2

specification.website

The website specification

A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT license.

3

uxdesign.cc

Liquid Glass: who gets to decide how an interface looks?

Notes from the 2026 WWDC keynote.

4

aave.com

Building glass for the web

How we built a cross-browser glass effect for the web, and how it shapes a family of components.

5

ui-skills.com

UI skills for design engineers

Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides.

Wednesday06/10

1

slack.design

How I validated design decisions before writing production code

We can finally generate evidence before committing to anything.

2

fonts.xyz

fonts.xyz

A little internet village for independent type foundries and designers.

3

elliotjaystocks.com

The old typography is new again

How variable fonts utilize optical sizing axes to automate legibility across varying viewports and scales.

4

vorpus.github.io

performative-ui

Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.

5

nngroup.com

The four design jobs AI created (so far)

“AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work.

Tuesday06/09

1

karlkoch.me

Falling in love with the build

Write-first design prevents falling in love with the wrong thing by prioritizing reasoning over implementation.

2

css-generators.com

How to center an element horizontally and vertically

100 different ways to center a single element horizontally and vertically inside a container.

3

github.blog

Building a general-purpose accessibility agent

The experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.

4

enshittifier.wells.ee

Enshittifier: replace AI with 💩

The web is drowning in AI. We replace it with 💩. In your browser. In your fonts.

5

addyosmani.com

Loop engineering

You don’t really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you.

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