The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday12/16

1

uxdesign.cc

So your AI wants a personality

Emerging personality patterns that drive differentiation in AI products.

2

terriblesoftware.org

What actually makes you senior

The one skill that separates senior folks from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.

3

lethain.com

Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

A side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era.

4

frerejones.com

Designing Gotham

The story behind the Gotham type family.

5

calendar.perfplanet.com

How to load CSS (fast)

Loading styles on the web is something that looks trivial at first. But if you wanted to load CSS fast, all of the sudden you run into trouble...

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Monday12/15

1

bit.ly

Readymag Websites of the Year 2025 winners announced Sponsored

Check out the winning projects selected by the design community and expert jury from Porto Rocha, Pentagram, and Studio Dumbar.

2

sh-reya.com

On the consumption of AI-generated content at scale

“I might be going insane because half of what I read now sounds like ChatGPT.”

3

creativereview.co.uk

The best movie posters of the year 2025

Daniel Benneworth-Gray picks his favourite movie posters of 2025, from Frankenstein to Pillion, Sentimental Value to Hard Truths.

4

cyberspace.online

Cyberspace.online

Social media de-imagined. A quiet corner of the internet where you can think, write, read and connect. Like how the internet was supposed to be.

5

notboring.co

Hardware is a fruit

One of the tensions at the heart of capitalism: trying to do the “right thing” is disadvantageous.

Friday12/12

1

terriblesoftware.org

AI can write your code; It can’t do your job

The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.

2

designprompts.dev

AI-powered design style explorer

Explore 31+ design styles rendered from the same data. Get AI-ready prompts to recreate any aesthetic in your own projects.

3

book.sv

Book.sv

Input books you've read and receive recommendations on what to read next from an AI model.

4

nngroup.com

Prompt to design interfaces

Create better AI-prototyping designs by using precise visual keywords, references, analysis, as well as mock data and code snippets.

5

renderghost.leaflet.pub

Stop asking users what they want; start watching what they do

People’s opinions about themselves and the things they use rarely match real behavior.

Thursday12/11

1

8bitcn.com

8bitcn/ui

A collection of 8-bit styled components for your next project.

2

stickertop.art

Laptop sticker art

A unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world.

3

htmhell.dev

The role of the ‘lang’ attribute

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

4

neal.fun

Size of life

Compare the size of living things, in a nicely designed experience.

5

thorsell.io

Estimates: a necessary evil?

Estimates come in various disguises, but when you peek under the trench coat there is always the same old question.

Wednesday12/10

1

pjonori.blog

Public design systems are worth it

It’s incredibly valuable to make a design system available to all–no matter what the bean-counters say.

2

inspo.page

Website inspo gallery

Inspirateion curated at the component level. Browse UI patterns, layouts, animations, and more.

3

pangrampangram.com

The barcode as a design object

Very few graphic inventions have shaped the visual landscape of our everyday lives as quietly and ubiquitously as the barcode.

4

chrome.dev

CSS Wrapped 2025

22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.

5

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Icons in menus everywhere

For those who do not accept the philosophy of “put an icon in every menu item by default”.

Tuesday12/09

1

wallpaper.com

The best album covers of 2025

A plethora of new releases this year look as good as they sound. Here’s Wallpaper's top ten.

2

theguardian.com

Martin Parr could make a chip shop as mighty as a cathedral

A brilliantly human photographer who celebrated the overlooked, finding beauty the mundane.

3

replaceyourboss.ai

AI CEO

Algorithmic thought leadership, with instant decisions, and zero ego. Replace your boss before they replace you.

4

figma.com

What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI?

As workflows shift what happens to job titles—and the ways of working and sense of identity that comes with them?

5

alwaystwisted.com

Generating utility classes from design tokens using style dictionary

Seamless design-to-development workflows and collaboration, including snowflakes.

Monday12/08

1

bit.ly

Designing Design Systems BookSponsored

Everything you need to know about design systems in one place.

2

jarango.com

Three lessons from the work of Frank Gehry

Reflecting on the master architect’s legacy and its relevance to current UX.

3

aeon.co

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too.

4

apple.com

Apple unveils the winners of the 2025 App Store Awards

Recognizing 17 apps and games for their technical ingenuity and lasting cultural impact.

5

justoffbyone.com

The math of why you can’t focus at work

Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you’ll get real work done.

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