The five best design links, every weekday

Friday05/22

1

baldurbjarnason.com

The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

A major inflection point as the tech industry’s imperial mindset crumbles under intense social backlash.

2

tenphi.me

Why I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable

Why predictable CSS state resolution matters, and how Tasty approaches it with state maps and non-overlapping selectors.

3

justadesignlist.com

Just a design list

A slow, curated index of design studios and independent practices. 814 entries across 54 countries.

4

theuselessweb.com

The sites we lost

A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.

5

webaim.org

WebAIM: Tolerating inaccessibility

Despite an increase in interest and the tireless efforts of digital accessibility professionals, the web is less accessible than it was a year ago.

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Thursday05/21

1

css-tricks.com

Stack Overflow: when we stop asking

It still hits like a ton of bricks to see the steep decline in Stack Overflow questions. What does that mean about learning in our industry?

2

hostilevolume.com

Hostile volume: begin the suffering

A volume setting experience designed for maximum frustration. Can you beat the audit?

3

lukew.com

Collaborative steering

It's cool to work together. So how does that work with AI?

4

fontastic.space

Fontastic Space

Compare Google Fonts with anatomy overlays, metrics & pairing scores. Free.

5

smashingmagazine.com

Ten data-backed truths of UX ROI

Facts that link user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth.

Wednesday05/20

1

webframp.com

The workflow collision

Your team’s workflow and your agent’s lifecycle want different things.

2

emilkowal.ski

Train your judgement

Settling for good enough is not good enough.

3

halupedia.com

Halupedia

An encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it.

4

blog.murphytrueman.com

Your design system might be AI-ready. Your organisation probably isn’t.

The technical preparation is well underway. The organisational questions it creates are a different problem entirely.

5

2026.stateofai.dev

State of AI 2026 Survey Results

7,000+ web developers share how they use AI.

Tuesday05/19

1

addyosmani.com

Don’t outsource the learning

Right now, it’s too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning.

2

punchcards.tristandavey.com

Tristan Davey’s punch card archive

A small archive of punch cards and ephemera from the 1930s through 1980s.

3

bpando.org

Case study: branding & packaging for Juana

Identity, logo, wordmark, packaging and typography for CBD beauty brand Juana by Made Thought.

4

fraude.design

Fraude Design

The AI-free site builder for genius founders.

5

hannahhearth.com

Tools the Vercel product design team actually uses

Design tools are changing fast in a world that has never felt more disrupt-able.

Monday05/18

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

flowingdata.com

Defense against dishonest charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

3

thesvg.org

theSVG

Search, copy, and ship 6,030+ brand SVG icons. Open-source library with npm, React, Vue, Svelte, CLI, CDN, and MCP server support.

4

wallpaper.com

How the pursuit of optimisation reshaped art, aesthetics and us

As frictionlessness colonises everyday life, artists, designers and theorists are asking what gets lost.

5

kk.org

A catechism for robots

Autonomous systems require more than just logic rules; they need core moral values.

Friday05/15

1

crookedtimber.org

The text is not the product

Texts as products, or texts as means to something very different.

2

feel.ifsart.com

Emotion Explorer

Explore emotions on the valence-arousal space.

3

stillnight.joshua-garcia.com

Still Night: A painting you can play

Still Night turns Van Gogh’s Starry Night into a playable instrument. Brighter colors play higher notes.

4

daverupert.com

The duality of language models in the browser

AI in the browser reeks of a product manager trying to hit a KPI to shoehorn AI into everything.

5

uxdesign.cc

How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma

4 skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds.

Thursday05/14

1

rmoff.net

AI slop is killing online communities

How we risk destroying the very ecosystems we built to stay connected.

2

3dsvg.design

3Dsvg

Turn any SVG into interactive 3D objects. Animate and export as 4K image or video. 100% free, no account or subscription needed.

3

chriscoyier.net

When sites need to walk away

According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.

4

nudges.fyi

Nudges, biases & heuristics for the age of AI

43 interactive field cards covering nudges, biases, heuristics, and AI phenomena. A practical reference.

5

contralabs.com

Human creativity benchmark

Setting the benchmark for style, tone, and taste with next-gen creative tools.

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