The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday06/11

1

buzzusborne.com

Discovery vs Delivery

A personal perspective on AI, product quality and the growing divide between deciding what should exist and efficiently building it.

2

specification.website

The website specification

A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT license.

3

uxdesign.cc

Liquid Glass: who gets to decide how an interface looks?

Notes from the 2026 WWDC keynote.

4

aave.com

Building glass for the web

How we built a cross-browser glass effect for the web, and how it shapes a family of components.

5

ui-skills.com

UI skills for design engineers

Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides.

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Wednesday06/10

1

slack.design

How I validated design decisions before writing production code

We can finally generate evidence before committing to anything.

2

fonts.xyz

fonts.xyz

A little internet village for independent type foundries and designers.

3

elliotjaystocks.com

The old typography is new again

How variable fonts utilize optical sizing axes to automate legibility across varying viewports and scales.

4

vorpus.github.io

performative-ui

Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.

5

nngroup.com

The four design jobs AI created (so far)

“AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work.

Tuesday06/09

1

karlkoch.me

Falling in love with the build

Write-first design prevents falling in love with the wrong thing by prioritizing reasoning over implementation.

2

css-generators.com

How to center an element horizontally and vertically

100 different ways to center a single element horizontally and vertically inside a container.

3

github.blog

Building a general-purpose accessibility agent

The experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.

4

enshittifier.wells.ee

Enshittifier: replace AI with 💩

The web is drowning in AI. We replace it with 💩. In your browser. In your fonts.

5

addyosmani.com

Loop engineering

You don’t really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you.

Monday06/08

1

bit.ly

Prototyping gamified e-commerce apps [Live Demo]Sponsored

Countdowns. Limited drops. Game-style hunts. Build real-world gamification patterns that keep users coming back.

2

doc.cc

A sharp tool can still ruin the cut

Some ideas only show up when you take the long way around, when you don’t quite know what you’re looking for yet.

3

arps18.github.io

Beyond the prompt: Claude Code

A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users, including the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, and more.

4

dailydesigner.net

Daily Designer

Every day, a thought-provoking quote from a designer.

5

anthropic.com

When AI builds itself

Anthropic's progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

Friday06/05

1

blog.murphytrueman.com

The parts of your system you never wrote down

Reopening every decision you left implicit, and settling it without you.

2

knightcolumbia.org

AI as social technology

Artificial general intelligence does not hold out the promise of truly post-human bureaucracy.

3

tokyodesignforum.com

Soleio — The geometry of luck

The closing talk from Tokyo Design Forum 2026. The first piece in The Forum Library.

4

craigabbott.co.uk

Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough

Why styling on semantics and roles could make accessibility harder to skip.

5

emailmarkup.org

Email Accessibility Report 2026

A technical audit of the senders, platforms and email clients that define the modern inbox.

Thursday06/04

1

uxdesign.cc

Designing how designers master AI

Learning to bend it to how you already think—and how that kind of mastery is personal, divergent, and never finished.

2

transitions.dev

Transitions.dev

Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project.

3

darylcecile.net

The speed of prototyping in the age of AI

How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I’m doing to keep my hands dirty.

4

letterbox.sh

Letterbox — Letters made of letters

Letters shaped by text. Pick a font, choose your colors, and watch type come alive.

5

allenpike.com

Building for voice In, visuals out

Flashes of brilliance, and the tyranny of latency.

Wednesday06/03

1

poyo.co

Two LLM UI patterns that aren’t chat

Structures that manage context and data retrieval more effectively for complex, non-linear tasks.

2

meodai.github.io

heerich.js

Tiny engine for 3D voxel scenes rendered to SVG — boolean ops, oblique/perspective cameras, zero dependencies.

3

animations.dev

Motion vocabulary

A glossary of common animation patterns, so you know what to ask for.

4

itsnicethat.com

On frictionmaxxing and the creative virtues of inconvenience

In a culture obsessed with seamlessness and instant fulfilment, inconvenience is starting to feel strangely radical again.

5

davesresearch.com

Self-fulfilling projects

The projects that defy clarity and specificity.

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