The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday10/13

1

lukew.com

The convergence of design

You don't have to squint to see the pattern... but why?

2

microsoft.design

Designing Michelangelus

Inside the making of Michelangelus, a contemporary serif shaped by handwriting, architecture, and stone.

3

quantamagazine.org

Is AI the end of math as we know it?

Mathematicians are facing the sudden shift with grief, anger, and a desperate search for fresh ideas.

4

ssgoi.dev

Native page transitions on the web

Router-agnostic page transitions for React, Svelte, Vue, Solid, Angular, and Qwik.

5

sheets.works

The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Monday10/12

1

bit.ly

Put your meetings to workSponsored

Meetings aren’t the problem. The challenge is everything that comes after them. Download Granola for free and use it in your next meeting.

2

constitution.design

The designer’s constitution

A model for rethinking what makes a designer in the age of AI.

3

adrianroselli.com

Decorative images aren’t a thing

Adding an image to a design, email, document, page, app, etc. is done for a reason.

4

fluidfunctionalism.com

Fluid functionalism

Open source UI components with satisfying hover.

5

armstr.ng

Worth building

What changes when a tool doesn’t have to pay for itself.

Friday10/09

1

jovo.design

AI invasive design

We can all agree ”AI native“ is a little bit bullshit, but does it have to be so dystopian?

2

contralabs.com

Creative Intelligence Report

We surveyed 150k+ working creatives to explore how AI is changing creative work.

3

matthenry.fyi

A design system is what it does

A comparison of how two design systems handle the humble text component.

4

ldlr.design

Field Notes: Design Outcomes

Tactics from the best design teams and individuals working today, with notes on how the work got made.

5

itsnicethat.com

Bringing warmth and fun to São Paulo’s bars and restaurants

References, details and techniques being deployed by Brazilian design studios to bring playfulness and nostalgia to the city’s streets.

Thursday10/08

1

liao.gg

Agents don’t need memory. They need documentation.

Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.

2

12axes.vercel.app

12 axes

A complete, free political quiz: find your political ideology, compatible country and political figure across 12 axes.

3

design.lightspark.com

Money as a file

A working prototype that lets you move test money as a file: into Finder, along with a message, or directly between two phones.

4

agentic.littleplains.com

Agentic systems are the future of brands

Agentic Brand Systems, a Little Plains research note.

5

wattenberger.com

Chat is AI’s command line

AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.

Wednesday10/07

1

blog.ronbronson.com

On being anything other than a designer

There’s that person in your job who is the one people call for all kinds of tasks that only “they can do.”

2

fglibs.com

F*cking good libraries

A browsable semantic library for creative development resources.

3

emergingpatterns.design

Emerging patterns: design leadership in 2026

Findings from nearly 120 design leaders — pathways, mentorship, portfolio careers, tooling, and the human qualities of leadership.

4

era-of-cmd-tab.vercel.app

The era of cmd+tab

An essay that degrades 1% at a time, and a little more every time you leave it.

5

draganbabic.com

Design is a nice-to-have

I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.

Tuesday10/06

1

doc.cc

Prompting as self-portrait

AI installed a distorted mirror where the blank page used to be.

2

leadershipfolios.com

Leadership folios

Portfolios from design managers, directors, VPs, and executives, each annotated with what it shows, why it works at that level, and what to steal.

3

uxdesign.cc

Is Meta’s new AI agent easier to trust because it’s cute?

Muse comes with an avatar you design and a keyring gadget. Few people would hand Meta their passwords, yet it topped the US App Store.

4

lukew.com

Many agents, many views

You manage agents, they manage more agents, and those agents manage even more agents.

5

nytimes.com

In defense of the detour

On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.

Monday10/05

1

bit.ly

Save time with Wispr Flow (4x faster than typing)Sponsored

The voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app.

2

uxdesign.cc

How to de-slopify your designs

Tips for anyone who vibecodes.

3

tomacco.github.io

Amazing glass

Glass that bends the page behind it. Liquid glass web components for HTML, React and Vue, tuned pixel by pixel against Apple’s own renderer.

4

unsung.aresluna.org

A loading state within a loading state

Loading is a complex space, where sometimes the most natural solution is a bad one.

5

hitesh.in

Google has the best AI money can buy. Its products still feel broken.

Google’s AI-era products keep breaking an old trust contract with users, and the model isn’t the reason.

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