The five best design links, every weekday

Friday12/19

1

ivan.codes

The art of vibe design

The distance between "I want this" and "this exists" was measured in weeks, budgets, and expertise you didn't have.

2

clarelewisillustration.co.uk

Case study: Hogwarts rebrand

What would it look like if Hogwarts were reimagined for a new generation?

3

figma.com

Prototypes are the new PRDs

Inside Figma Make, product managers are pressure-testing assumptions early, building momentum, and rallying teams around something tangible.

4

taylor.town

How to win titular metagames

Good titles permit readers to quickly estimate the relative value of articles, essays, videos, etc. Everybody wins when titles are accurate.

5

thekernel.news

A little bit uncomfortable

When I realized there was no real way to move on in that career I loved without having to present my work to audiences.

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Thursday12/18

1

asteriskmag.com

Ideas aren’t getting harder to find

For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell.

2

wesleystubenbord.com

Billionaire migration: an interactive map

An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,146 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.

3

play.studio

Case study: Figma Sites

Figma came to Play Studio to help debut one of their latest products, Figma Sites, including a highly visual template gallery.

4

nngroup.com

Explainable AI in chat interfaces

Explanation text in AI chat interfaces is intended to help users understand AI outputs, but current practices fall short of that goal.

5

msuiche.com

When machines pay machines

The internet was built with a missing piece. Three decades later, that vision is finally materializing.

Wednesday12/17

1

grahamduncan.blog

What’s going on here, with this human?

Recommendations about candidate selection based on thousands of assessments and a somewhat obsessive interest in the topic.

2

merrychristmas.gov

Merry Christmas, America

Celebrate Christmas together with a look at America’s rich history of design.

3

business.pinterest.com

Pinterest predicts: top trends for 2026

Emerging trends across all categories… and unlimited possibilities for using them.

4

casualoptimist.com

Notable book covers of 2025

Trends and highlights from this year's most unique book covers.

5

pudding.cool

How musicals use motifs to tell stories

Explore motifs from Hamilton, Wicked, and Les Misérables.

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...

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.

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