The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday11/10

1

shawnsmucker.substack.com

Please use AI

Be sure to use AI when making.

2

tk.xyz

TK

A new way to write from Medium. The more you write, the better it gets.

3

blossom-carousel.com

Blossom carousel

Enhance native scrolling with dragging instead of replacing it.

4

davesresearch.com

What product strategy does

On maintaining and rebuilding critical relationships.

5

customerorproduct.org

Customer or product?

Sort the apps your family uses and see the price you can’t see.

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Monday11/09

1

bit.ly

Vote in Readymag Websites of the Year 2026Sponsored

The award spotlights inventive projects made with Readymag, a design tool for creating outstanding websites. Explore the shortlist and vote.

2

uxdesign.cc

Otherwise you’re just a machine

AI is getting better at design. Designers should too.

3

seanvoisen.com

What does design system AI readiness mean, anyway?

Maybe it’s less about machine-legible artifacts and more about where humans stay in the loop.

4

edge-aura.js.org

edge-aura

An organic glow that hugs the edge of your screen. Zero-dependency Canvas 2D engine with a thin React adapter.

5

ishadeed.com

Site Seeing

See how a web page will behave in different contexts that force unusual viewport sizes.

Friday11/06

1

uxdesign.cc

Everyone is building AI agents. Who’s designing the stop button?

Here’s why the hardest design decisions happen where that autonomy ends.

2

the-brandidentity.com

A sans serif built on oversized round shapes

Superior Type’s Heaven is a brutalist grotesque built on round shapes that are too big for their space.

3

george.mand.is

Tokenizer Mono

A monospace font that highlights LLM tokens as you type. No JavaScript, just OpenType substitution rules and a color table.

4

longnow.org

Attention is all you need

A report from the future on AI, attention, and the maintenance of civilization

5

aframe.io

A-Frame

A web framework for building virtual reality experiences. Make WebVR with HTML and Entity-Component. Works on Vive, Rift, desktop, mobile.

Thursday11/05

1

lesswrong.com

Great but painful

If you want to build a product that people will use, find something that people already do and make it less painful.

2

mean.app

Mean

Visual handoff for humans and agents. Freeze or record your screen, annotate with gestures, and hand the finished session to a human or AI.

3

iamnoman.com

Designing a skill

Skills are becoming the apps of the agentic era. What you learn shipping quality software still applies to them.

4

koto.com

Nubank: Rebrand

Brand redesign and digital foundations built to fight complexity and empower people, with a system that stays unmistakably Nu.

5

vitalik.eth.limo

Digital minimalism

Being intentional about ways that you access digital technology, making each use a conscious choice.

Wednesday11/04

1

buzzusborne.com

Pick three

Exploring the hidden cost of producing good, fast and cheap creative work.

2

avantgarde.110west40th.com

Avant Garde

A seminal, but somewhat overlooked by a wider public, magazine, which broke taboos, rattled some nerves and made a few enemies.

3

uxdesign.cc

Building an AI-ready design system library

Why my design system starts in code, and how I build, check and maintain the Figma library.

4

baselinedesign.com

The window with no buttons

Why the terminal feels so unfamiliar to designers, and how to read it anyway.

5

paper.design

Paper Mono

A beautiful monospace font family with 8 variable weights and coding ligatures, free and open source.

Tuesday11/03

1

royfish.dev

Fingerprints are the new cookies

How browser fingerprinting replaces third-party cookies for persistent user tracking. And to the highest bidder it goes.

2

jelly-ui.com

Jelly UI

A dependency-free Web Components library for tactile product interfaces: soft-body physics, real form controls, dark mode, RTL and WCAG.

3

chrbutler.com

There will always be someone faster, cheaper, and better

AI has designers questioning everything. But the three things we think we’re chosen for haven’t changed at all.

4

github.com

Desigma

Free Figma alternative made on Rust. An independent, local-first, open-source design tool.

5

seldo.com

How to hire junior engineers in the age of AI

Junior developer hiring has collapsed because nobody knows how to interview for the new AI-assisted job.

Monday11/02

1

bit.ly

The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. Give it a try during your next meeting.

2

doc.cc

Who owns the doubt?

Nobody arrives at their first design job doubting their first idea; they defend it, usually too loudly.

3

alfy.blog

A select should tell you something

Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.

4

noemamag.com

Now entering: The era of bleh

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

5

benji.org

Stageshow

Create better faux UI with agents. Avoid results often look sloppy and heavy-handed.

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