The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday11/27

1

anxietyaidtools.com

Open source anxiety toolkit

Community-built tools for anxiety relief including breathing techniques, grounding, and muscle relaxation.

2

ilovetypography.com

Steven Heller’s font of the month: Archive Matrix

Dot matrices to build the structure and subtle contrast of its futuristic letterforms.

3

developers.openai.com

Building an AI-native engineering team

How coding agents speed up the software development lifecycle—a guide by OpenAI.

4

flagstories.co

Flag stories

Stats about flags and flag design—a data visualization project.

5

cloudfour.com

Responsive letter spacing

Minimizing the readability impact of a typographic brand requirement.

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Wednesday11/26

1

philippdubach.com

Is AI really eating the world?

The range of outcomes spans from “just more software” to a single unified intelligence that handles everything.

2

colorpalette.pro

Color palette pro

Generate customizable color palettes in advanced color spaces that can be easily shared, downloaded, or exported.

3

productidentity.co

In the sea of sameness

Finding a soul in this world seems to be a rare quality these days, especially in software-internet-land.

4

allthingsdistributed.com

Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond

In the coming year, we will begin the transition into a new era of AI in the human loop, not the other way around.

5

vercel.com

How we built the v0 iOS app

The v0 engineering team breaks down the challenges and decisions behind building the v0 app for iOS.

Tuesday11/25

1

yannglt.com

The Rosetta stone of design engineering

How design and engineering meet, overlap, and translate meaning—and why a shared language is the only way to build real shipping velocity.

2

emilysneddon.com

FranSans

A display font based on the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco.

3

uxdesign.cc

Locksmith stickers are annoying, but kind of genius

A masterclass in low-tech, persistent, and surprisingly effective guerrilla marketing.

4

lethain.com

“Good engineering management” is a fad

As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life.

5

eleganthack.com

UX is your moat (and you’re ignoring it)

AI companies act like their next model release will make users switch. They announce benchmark improvements like they’re declaring victory.

Monday11/24

1

wpamelia.com

Amelia Booking for WordPress — Black Friday up to 70%Sponsored

80,000+ customers, 4.6★ rating. Automated booking with real-time availability, payments, reminders—15-day money-back guarantee.

2

hvpandya.com

Exposure as a designer

For equal amount of design skills, your exposure to the world determines how effective of a designer you can be.

3

baldurbjarnason.com

The dichotomy of print versus the web

Two very different technologies whose relationship is complicated at best.

4

mashable.com

9 startups changing disability tech

From making brain-computer interfaces affordable to enabling people with low vision to follow live sports.

5

hazelweakly.me

To be a leader of systems

People who become known for seeing systems often become in charge of them.

Friday11/21

1

chrbutler.com

What AI is really for

Best case: we’re in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they’re doing.

2

openrailwaymap.org

Open railway map

An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure.

3

pbs.org

David Kelley’s brief but spectacular take on creativity and design

David Kelley reflects on the journey that shaped his belief that everyone has the capacity to be creative.

4

theguardian.com

How pop music fell in love with socialist infographics

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education—but ended up impacting way more.

5

humaninvariant.com

Blame as a service (BaaS)

Productized scapegoating—a reflection.

Thursday11/20

1

trevorlasn.com

Good enough is a strategy

Your competitors will eat your lunch while you refactor.

2

zehfernandes.com

The folded world

That is the heartbeat of contemporary AI. The models are creating meaning, yet their pathways remain opaque.

3

uxdesign.cc

Ornament and culture

Interface as social signifier.

4

itsnicethat.com

A typeface made of pulsating particles

The neon green accent colour of the French festival’s 2025 identity was so catchy that attendees integrated the hue into their outfits.

5

yusufaytas.com

What good execution looks like

Quiet execution means low operational noise, clear ownership and stable context, with delivery, reliability and human signals aligned.

Wednesday11/19

1

scatterarrow.com

All your coworkers are probabilistic too

LLMs, humans and the old tricks that still work.

2

uxdesign.cc

What we lose when we lose the creative struggle

How removing friction from creative tools removes the meaning from creative work.

3

sopd.design

State of product design

Workflows, burnout, AI impact, career growth, and job market insights across regions and company types.

4

bestfreefonts.com

Best free fonts

A curated selection of free fonts. Including serif, sans serif, script and monospace.

5

stuffandnonsense.co.uk

My CSS selector strategy

Writing great CSS is a matter of strategic restraint, not over-specification.

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