The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday08/20

1

adobe.design

Is design dead in the age of AI?

No, but it’s undergoing a revision. Written by Jessica Walsh.

2

pi.fyi

Do you miss the old internet?

Before vibeless algo curation, psychopath CEOs, tech bros, and influencers took over? You came to the right place.

3

yeptype.com

How to choose a UI font (and 10 Inter alternatives)

Tired of Inter being everywhere? Two real criteria—cap-centered vertical metrics and a tall x-height—for choosing a UI font.

4

meodai.github.io

Poline: esoteric color palette generation

Poline is a lightweight, dependency free and fast JavaScript function written in TypeScript.

5

blog.maximeheckel.com

Shading motion

Detecting, extracting, and stylizing motion with WebGPU and TSL, covering motion masking, blob tracking, optical flow, and velocity-based motion blur.

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Wednesday08/19

1

uxdesign.cc

Rethinking design leadership with swarms and flocks

How structured emergence solves manager burnout, team bottlenecks, and systemic design debt.

2

agentbehavior.dev

Agent behavior

A standard format for describing expected agent behavior for trace review and evaluation.

3

figma.com

Try these 10 skills—and show off your own

Now you can author skills for our agent, directly in Figma, to put your point of view to work. Here are 10 of our favorites to get you started.

4

play.ertdfgcvb.xyz

Play

A browser-based live-code environment with text-only output.

5

blog.ronbronson.com

Agent experience needs failure affordances

A system that operates with some autonomy needs a way to tell the rest of the system when ordinary control is no longer adequate.

Tuesday08/18

1

brentfitzgerald.com

The human is the loop

After a few weeks away from AI, I see my usage wasn’t always productive or healthy.

2

morphicons.com

Morphicons

Morph any SVG icon into any other with spring physics. Animate in React, Vue, Svelte, React Native, Astro or vanilla JS. Zero dependencies.

3

medium.com

How to make your design system agent-ready

If you don’t want your AI agent to choke on your design.md, stop putting your entire design system into one file.

4

azgaar.github.io

Azgaar’s fantasy map generator

A web app that helps fantasy writers, game masters, and cartographers create and edit fantasy maps.

5

patronview.com

99% of my website traffic is bots

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what’s working now.

Monday08/17

1

bit.ly

Take your meeting context to new placesSponsored

Granola's new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration connects your meeting notes to your AI app of choice.

2

superposition.jem.computer

Design is how it tastes

If our design specs only tell models what the interface is made of, they have already forgotten what the interface is for

3

eigendrum.com

Eigendrum

Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled.

4

buttondown.com

Accessibility getting dropped in the process

When accessible designs become inaccessible products.

5

minoradventures.co

The making of Cursor’s icons

A year of drawing, testing, and shipping a complete icon system for the world’s favourite coding agent.

Friday08/14

1

blog.florianherrengt.com

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

The economic shift that values human architectural judgment over execution speed.

2

gooey.jakubantalik.com

Liquid Gooey

Liquid UI effects for React.

3

mattrothenberg.com

You don't have a design system

A classification that forces teams to document implementation logic for sustained product consistency.

4

stolen-thoughts.com

Stolen thoughts

Encrypted chain-of-thought blocks returned by Anthropic, OpenAI and Google APIs—we exploit this to decode hidden reasoning at scale.

5

yaronschoen.com

Claude Code 101, for designers

What Claude Code actually is, plus a plain-language decoder for the jargon around it. Models, tokens, agents, MCP, and friends.

Thursday08/13

1

noemamag.com

Why is everyone in tech so sad?

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless.

2

kuber.studio

I didn’t set a cookie

Everything this page knows about you, it learned in under two seconds. Without a cookie, a permission prompt, or a click.

3

lethain.com

Middle management roles are also a trap

Most middle management roles make practicing executive skills difficult, and sometimes negatively select against developing them.

4

backyarddesigners.club

Backyard designers

Draft seven real designers as chunky cartoon kids, stay under the follower-count salary cap, then post your lineup.

5

imkylelambert.com

Everyone is designing with AI, not for it

We focus on how people are designing and building with AI. I rarely read about how AI is changing “what” people are designing and building.

Wednesday08/12

1

blog.mozilla.org

Let your designs fail for the right reasons

How AI-assisted native prototypes changed what usability testing could show.

2

state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app

State of AI in Design Systems

A field study of how 20 open-source design systems and 6 platforms make themselves readable to AI agents.

3

beautifului.dev

Beautiful UI

A small library of extremely crafted, copy-paste components for chat agents, thinking states, human-in-the-loop approvals, and everything agents need.

4

taylor.town

I’m leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

Gonna send you back to the stone age.

5

2026.stateofcss.com

State of CSS 2026

The results are in. Developer adoption across modern CSS features—empirical data on layout practices and usage.

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