The five best design links, every weekday

Wednesday10/28

1

uxdesign.cc

Nobody asked for the sparkle button

Products ship with the same AI panel; people hunt for the off switch, and spend has outrun returns. Build features with AI, not AI features.

2

niklasroy.com

Glashütte Trash Clock

A fully functioning clockwork made from trash and other stuff that I found in Glashütte, Saxony.

3

justinjay.wang

Design as a garden

A different way to think about creative work.

4

digital-collections.princeton.edu

Russian and East European posters

Poster art as used in advertising for performances and films in a variety of Party-sponsored campaigns and ephemera.

5

denodell.com

Design systems should be fast by default

If a design system’s components are slow to interact with, so are any apps built with it.

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Tuesday10/27

1

algoroxyolo.github.io

Knowing how is not knowing what

What RL environments need to supply: organizational context, domain rules and connected information.

2

howsadisthischapter.com

How sad is this chapter?

Find out how emotionally devastating a chapter is before you read it.

3

mattstromawn.com

Code review was never about the code

Code review was always meant as a verification step: does the code produce the outcome we want?

4

creativeboom.com

André Britz’s landscapes, bound with a pink elastic band

Intuitive drawings of places made from memory alone, in a 64-page book designed to feel unfinished.

5

mixfont.com

Decoy Font: a TTF font that hides what you type

Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type.

Monday10/26

1

craftwork.design

Craftwork: UI made by real designersSponsored

Figma UI kits, Framer templates, fonts, React components, icons, 3D and mockups made by real designers. Use them in Figma or through your AI agent.

2

hrih.si

Who holds the off switch?

What the 2026 numbers say about privacy and control, and guesses for where the privacy business goes next.

3

archive.org

Vintage AI

A curated collection of early computer software claiming some aspect of artificial intelligence as a primary feature.

4

youtube.com

Design and engineering are the same thing

John Maeda on why makers need to understand people and communicate.

5

intentapp.dev

Intent Design System

Intent logos, colors, typography, iconography, foundations, and components.

Friday10/23

1

shannadige.com

Fast is a design decision

Building a site has never been cheaper, but making it fast still costs attention and your user’s resources.

2

visualrambling.space

Moving objects in 3D space

Have you ever wondered how to move objects along a spherical helix path?

3

antonsten.com

Where decisions live

Slack for discussion, meetings to resolve, notes for thinking, and a dated decisions log for where things landed.

4

creativeboom.com

Apple Music’s new logo was shaped by sound and mineral oil

Created with TBWA\Media Arts Lab, the new identity is full of ripples made by sound.

5

backgrounds.supply

Gradient background generator

A free gradient background generator with 20+ animated shader modes.

Thursday10/22

1

doc.cc

The fastest gun in UX

Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is stakeholder alignment.

2

design.interfere.com

Interfere Design System

Components, styles and guidelines for building Interfere products.

3

gabrielvaldivia.com

Everyone is starting over

The careers that thrive now are the ones willing to become someone new, over and over.

4

lightbulbcomputer.com

The Lightbulb Computer

A device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb.

5

anthropic.com

How employment is changing at Anthropic

Anthropic could be a leading indicator of how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy.

Wednesday10/21

1

apeatling.com

Your product is not the center of the universe

Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them.

2

seangoedecke.com

AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects

If AI is so great, why aren’t we seeing an explosion of new, amazing software products?

3

toolcraft.sh

Toolcraft

An open-source starter kit and UI library for building custom design apps with AI.

4

editui.app

EditUI

Point at your UI. Tell your coding agent what to change.

5

maxschmitt.me

A simple guide to calm UI

A few basic rules to keep in mind to make simple UIs feel a lot better.

Tuesday10/20

1

uxdesign.cc

Design in the material you ship

Designers should understand code the way an architect understands stone: what it can do, not how to cut it. AI now does the cutting.

2

davedavies.dev

State of Ecommerce Accessibility 2026

An audit of 59,400 ecommerce product pages. 64% had at least one automatically detected accessibility failure rated critical.

3

world.hey.com

Acceptance

If you haven’t accepted that these things are smarter than you, even in your own domain of expertise, I’m sorry.

4

logo.dev

Logo.dev MCP server

Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, or any MCP client to Logo.dev, and let your agent look up brands, logos, and brandmarks.

5

newsletter.posthog.com

38 things we’ve learned about building AI products

Lessons from four years of building AI products at PostHog.

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