The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday11/20

1

trevorlasn.com

Good enough is a strategy

Your competitors will eat your lunch while you refactor.

2

zehfernandes.com

The folded world

That is the heartbeat of contemporary AI. The models are creating meaning, yet their pathways remain opaque.

3

uxdesign.cc

Ornament and culture

Interface as social signifier.

4

itsnicethat.com

A typeface made of pulsating particles

The neon green accent colour of the French festival’s 2025 identity was so catchy that attendees integrated the hue into their outfits.

5

yusufaytas.com

What good execution looks like

Quiet execution means low operational noise, clear ownership and stable context, with delivery, reliability and human signals aligned.

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Wednesday11/19

1

scatterarrow.com

All your coworkers are probabilistic too

LLMs, humans and the old tricks that still work.

2

uxdesign.cc

What we lose when we lose the creative struggle

How removing friction from creative tools removes the meaning from creative work.

3

sopd.design

State of product design

Workflows, burnout, AI impact, career growth, and job market insights across regions and company types.

4

bestfreefonts.com

Best free fonts

A curated selection of free fonts. Including serif, sans serif, script and monospace.

5

stuffandnonsense.co.uk

My CSS selector strategy

Writing great CSS is a matter of strategic restraint, not over-specification.

Tuesday11/18

1

uxdesign.cc

Let designers think

How “Thinking” + “Designing” need to be practiced outside AI.

2

logo.dev

Logo API

Get company logos via API in seconds. Access millions of verified brand logos in SVG, PNG & WebP.

3

android-dreams.ai

Android dreams

A prediction essay for the next 20 years of intelligent robotics.

4

pudding.cool

In pursuit of democracy

Analyzing every mention of ‘democracy’ in the American Congressional Record.

5

nngroup.com

Good visual design, explained

Align type and elements to a grid, build a clear visual hierarchy, use color intentionally, and stay consistent with every design choice.

Monday11/17

1

ivyforms.com

Fine-tune your forms & capture more info than ever beforeSponsored

Build free WordPress forms that are easy to complete – and even easier to track.

2

tonsky.me

Needy programs

We used to use software; now software started to use us.

3

youtube.com

Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore

A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.

4

chrisloy.dev

The AI coding trap

Software development is fundamentally a practice of problem-solving, and so, most of the work is done in your head.

5

typefully.com

Why do we need dithering?

Before we all mute the word ‘dithering’, here's why we needed to dither digital images in the first place.

Friday11/14

1

doc.cc

To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything

AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it.

2

nomadstudio.com

A typographic time-splice of Holborn

A font that's a celebration of one of London’s oldest commercial districts.

3

auldenglish.com

Auld English fonts

Fonts that simulate the experience of reading in olden days, by diverse means.

4

boagworld.com

Marketing UX within your organization

Guerrilla marketing tactics to raise UX awareness and shift your organization’s culture without a big budget.

5

smashingmagazine.com

Six key components of UX Strategy

The building blocks of UX strategy and how it helps create user value while achieving company goals.

Thursday11/13

1

uxdesign.cc

Bridging product design and AI thinking

The shift in product design with the advent of AI and a potential generative experiential future.

2

claude.com

Claude use cases

Practical examples across research, writing, coding, analysis, and everyday tasks on how to collaborate with Claude AI.

3

perspective-dev.github.io

Perspective dataviz

An interactive analytics and data visualization component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.

4

tympanus.net

Building a real game as a designer using AI

A look behind a design-first diabetes education game, built by hand-crafted pixel art and powered by an AI that mostly knew what it was doing.

5

lukew.com

How design teams are reacting to 10x dev productivity from AI

When software development teams experience huge productivity booms, how do design teams respond?

Wednesday11/12

1

longform.asmartbear.com

Mission, vision, poTAYto, poTAHto

Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?

2

authoritarian-stack.info

The authoritarian stack

How tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America — and why Europe is next.

3

animateicons.vercel.app

AnimateIcons

Seamless, animated icons for React—make your interface stand out with beautifully smooth motion and easy customization.

4

adobe.design

Animation that fails safely

A practical framework for designing and engineering safe, resilient, and inclusive motion.

5

stratechery.com

The benefits of bubbles

We are in an AI Bubble: the big question is if this bubble will be worth it for the physical infrastructure and coordinated innovation that result?

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