The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday07/09

1

whynothugo.nl

98% isn’t very much

Why a 98% browser support metric still excludes millions of users.

2

ileivoivm.github.io

InkField Gallery

A gallery of InkField JSON recordings — humans and agents learning from each other.

3

tomtunguz.com

Most AI work can wait

Prioritize routing over model choice. Most AI work runs on cheap local models.

4

shaders.paper.design

Paper Shaders

Ultra-fast zero-dependency shaders for you to use in your projects, as React components or GLSL.

5

nngroup.com

Stop reporting UX activity and report business outcomes

UX teams should report business outcomes to show impact on revenue, cost, risk, speed, retention, and to secure resources.

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Wednesday07/08

1

uxdesign.cc

Never mind the prompts, here’s the thinking

A year rebuilding my studio’s entire design process around AI. It didn’t make us faster, and that’s exactly why it worked.

2

echo.logicaleap.com

Echo chamber: a healthy public square

How people end up in bubbles, and how easily a crowd can be split. A data visualization project.

3

thinkroom.kieranklaassen.com

Closing the verification loop

How a branch proves itself ready: browser reality, persona eyes, and fixes that carry their own evidence.

4

astryx.atmeta.com

Astryx Design System

An open source design system that is fully customizable and agent ready.

5

anthropic.com

A global workspace in language models

Interpretability research on Claude’s internal thoughts.

Tuesday07/07

1

bencallahan.com

What is product craft in the age of AI and design systems?

A design system can only raise the quality floor.

2

bambamramfan.github.io

The AI Compass

15 questions. Two axes. Which of 30 AI archetypes are you?

3

marcelochaman.ca

Design engineering

What design engineering is, how it’s changed, and where it’s going.

4

openalternative.co

Open source alternatives to popular software

Best open source alternatives to everyday SaaS products. Save money with reliable tools hand-picked for you.

5

diamond.jaydip.me

How diamonds are made

Journey of a very old rock. An interactive data visualization.

Monday07/06

1

geoffreylitt.com

Understanding is the new bottleneck

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here are some techniques for doing that efficiently.

2

greyscala.xyz

Greyscaler

Generate premium grayscale design tokens in OKLCH.

3

lesswrong.com

When should you know the point?

Are activities motivated by an array of reasons much less useful than ones done with a distinct purpose?

4

swizec.com

Code is the easy part

Or how we refactored half the business to fix a janky script.

5

mandy.dev

Design systems are no longer optional

Codebases deteriorate quickly when automated agents generate user interfaces without canonical constraints.

Friday07/03

1

eieio.games

Legibility of effort

LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?

2

artemistimeline.com

Artemis II Photo Timeline

An interactive photo timeline of NASA’s Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip.

3

w.pitula.me

Fintech Engineering Handbook

Patterns for building software that handles money.

4

figma.com

Principles in motion

When you’re designing motion, you’re designing with time. Understanding the mechanics turns movement into meaning.

5

buttondown.com

Google Reader was building the wrong future

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

Thursday07/02

1

karlkoch.me

On the semantic web

Native elements carry behaviour, accessibility, form semantics, keyboard support, and platform adaptation before styling begins.

2

askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org

Ask an astronaut

Find your question among hundreds of astronaut interviews aboard the International Space Station.

3

designnotes.blog.gov.uk

Designing services for people who’ve lost trust online

How to design to rebuild trust in using public services for people who have been affected by scams.

4

uxdesign.cc

39 principles for designing human-AI interaction

An applied framework for designing AI interfaces that support appropriate reliance, user control, transparency, and responsible autonomy.

5

pangrampangram.com

How to design arrows

Designing a single set of glyphs—one that’s as important and (literally) iconic as it is easy to mess up.

Wednesday07/01

1

uxdesign.cc

The organizational cost of low taste

When taste is weak, everything survives long enough to demand justification, and the organization slowly confuses activity with progress.

2

earth-garden.alen.ro

Earth Garden

Rotate a globe and listen to nearby nature soundscapes curated from Freesound.

3

blog.grandimam.com

Repricing of software engineering labor

The market is repricing software engineering labor—collapsing the premium for generalists while raising the value of deep expertise.

4

carmenansio.com

Halftone in the browser

I kept an old iMac alive for years just to run Freehand MX. Halftones, moirés, film separations.

5

alistapart.com

Designed for a dead language

Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin.

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