The five best design links, every weekday

Friday03/21

1

ezyang.github.io

AI blindspots

Blindspots in LLMs noticed while AI coding.

2

karpathy.bearblog.dev

Digital hygiene

A collection of the most basic digital hygiene tips, starting with the most basic to a bit more niche.

3

openai.fm

OpenAI.fm

An interactive demo for developers to try the new text-to-speech model in the OpenAI API.

4

retinaa.ch

The new Swiss passport design

Beautiful work from RETINAA, who has woven the nation’s landscapes into the fabric of the document, using 3D-modeled reliefs and other gems.

5

simonwillison.net

Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding

Vibe coding is having a moment. It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing.

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Thursday03/20

1

figma.com

The UX writer’s guide to Figma

Tips for writers to wrap their heads around Figma’s fundamental concepts, and take their skills to the next level.

2

symbl.revend.group

Symbl - your ultimate symbol library

A vast collection of HTML symbols, emojis, payment icons, and SVGs. Perfect for developers and designers to enhance web projects effortlessly.

3

npr.org

Photography winners with disabilities who show the world their perspective

The images were among the winning entries in this year's Global Ability Photography Challenge, organized by Youth4Jobs in India.

4

corp.roblox.com

Roblox Cube: a core generative AI system for 3D and 4D

Open-sourcing a version of Roblox's Cube 3D foundational model for generative AI.

5

jarango.com

AI is probabilistic – that’s why it needs constraints

Computers used to exclusively follow rules; now they generate possibilities. Combining both approaches maximizes their potential.

Wednesday03/19

1

wattenberger.com

Our interfaces have lost their senses

Recently, we've been too focused on fitting to the computer's shape, and not enough to our own bodies.

2

zeroheight.com

Design systems report 2025

Pretty valuable resource if you dodge all the ads: the fourth edition of the report showcases the current state of Design Systems in 2025.

3

extraordinarythings.co

Extraordinary things imagined with AI

An ongoing AI-driven project by Yashas Mitta, imagining surreal objects using the latest text-to-image models.

4

a11y-collective.com

Best practices for cognitive accessibility

WCAG guidelines, design patterns, and real-world case studies.

5

datagubbe.se

Past and present futures of UI

Is there a real new paradigm around the corner? And is the desktop going to disappear?

Tuesday03/18

1

photopea.com

Photopea

Like Photoshop, but free. Edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures.

2

monotype.com

Report: future typography

A report by Monotype celebrating typography’s progress, and challenging us to to look at the larger cultural forces shaping our time and work.

3

x.com

Why people are mad at Figma

People aren't mad at Figma because it's too hard to use–but because they lost focus on designers and got over bloated with useless features.

4

floor796.com

Floor796

A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups.

5

vsanchezgomez.substack.com

Why it’s so hard to align our work with our values

Many of us accept that what we do to earn money and what we do to benefit humanity must be separate activities.

Monday03/17

1

doc.cc

Our human habit of anthropomorphizing everything

Should we be humanizing AI?

2

games.productartistry.com

Notification psychology lab

Understand the techniques that make notifications impossible to ignore.

3

whatever.scalzi.com

The billionaire boycott conundrum

With every attempted boycott, there is some backlash, and backlash to the backlash.

4

kk.org

Public intelligence

Imagine 50 years from now a Public Intelligence that was a distributed, open-source, non-commercial AI, available to the whole world.

5

vanschneider.com

One step forward, two steps backwards

We're essentially taking these crystal-clear images captured by the latest camera technology and intentionally degrading them.

Friday03/14

1

daringfireball.net

Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino

Apple just said that Apple Intelligence features announced at WWDC would now be delayed until “the coming year”. It broke a contract of trust.

2

easingwizard.com

Easing wizard

Generate and customize CSS easing functions with ease and magical precision using Easing Wizard.

3

figma.com

Figma plugin: Mesh gradient generator

Empower your design prowess in Figma by effortlessly creating intricate mesh gradients.

4

benholliday.com

You are here… or they are here?

Technology gave us the Google Maps experience that says “You are here.” Modern maps put everyone at the centre of the world. That's dangeous.

5

shapen.com

Shapen

Create 3D models from images.

Thursday03/13

1

questdb.com

Design by decision fatigue

An essay on how the decisions we make writing software shape our enjoyment of the craft.

2

digitalfrontier.com

Y Combinator turns 20

How a startup school became Silicon Valley’s most influential badge of honor.

3

18f.org

Product de-risking guide

A guide for government agencies to deliver successful technology projects, from pre-award planning through post-award vendor management.

4

vintagedata.org

The model is the product

There were a lot of speculation over the past years about what the next cycle of AI development could be. Old data, new models.

5

christianheilmann.com

Nobody should be a “content creator”

Social media platforms don’t care about quality content – they care about interactions.

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