The five best design links, every weekday

Wednesday03/11

1

seldo.com

Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?

AI-native startups are doing more with less — 40% smaller teams, 6x higher revenue per employee — and the data confirms it’s not just hype.

2

funes.world

FUNES – 3D Cultural Heritage Archive

FUNES digitizes monuments and cultural heritage into high-quality 3D models, panoramas, and guided stories.

3

acairns.co.uk

Cognitive debt

The growing gap between the code your team ships and the code your team understands. It’s not technical debt. It’s worse.

4

allsvgicons.com

All SVG Icons

Browse and download 250,000+ free SVG icons for your projects that are free to use and customizable.

5

sequoiacap.com

Services: the new software

The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm.

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Tuesday03/10

1

bit.ly

Create stunning digital 3D embellishment mockupsSponsored

Bring high-end embellishment to life: DREAMCOMPOSER® transforms your designs into striking 3D mockups – fast and intuitive. Try it for free.

2

seangoedecke.com

I don’t know if my job will still exist in ten years

When the work you love goes away.

3

conor.fyi

Accessibility and AI agents

Accessibility was designed for humans, but the surface it exposes in your apps can benefit your agents and save you money — if you populate it.

4

grainrad.com

Grainrad

Free WebGPU-powered ASCII, dithering, and retro effects at 60fps.

5

blog.florianschulz.info

Design engineering 101: Typeahead

Implementing a text input field with typeahead suggestions, step by step.

Monday03/09

1

bit.ly

ai.to.design: Prompt → Editable FigmaSponsored

Generate editable Figma designs from AI — GPT, Claude, Gemini, you name it — without leaving Figma. Real layers. Real auto-layout. Not a screenshot.

2

helenmin.com

Software isn’t dying, but it is becoming more honest

A giant leap towards outcomes-based billing.

3

anthropic.com

Labor market impacts of AI

Report by Anthropic reveals how AI has been narrowing the "front door" for new talent.

4

notbor.ing

The joy of building slow

A different path to success for product makers.

5

blog.raed.dev

Agentic workflows are not conversations

The chat interface is fine for users. The flat message model behind it is a bad fit for agentic systems. Here’s what it erases.

Friday03/06

1

every.to

How to design software with weight

A look at the design principles that guided Every's smart dictation app from desktop to iPhone.

2

lmnt.me

Have we forgotten how to design?

Modern software feels identical because we prioritize speed over craft.

3

mw.rat.bz

WarGames Terminal Fonts

A replica font from the WarGames movie.

4

danielmiessler.com

The great transition

A mental model for thinking about all the big changes that are happening as a single transition.

5

figma.com

How to supercharge your design system with slots

Five field-tested tips from early Figma users to help you unlock more freedom without giving up control.

Thursday03/05

1

terriblesoftware.org

Nobody gets promoted for simplicity

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions.

2

infiniteundo.com

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

Many mistakes in both test and application code stem from misunderstandings or misconceptions about time.

3

cursor.com

How technical support at Cursor uses Cursor

Removing the context-gathering bottleneck for most support work.

4

library.obys.agency

Obys’ Design Books

A personal selection of titles that show design in ways the screen never could.

5

dbushell.com

Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden

Screen readers need context that visual layouts ignore.

Wednesday03/04

1

jonkolko.com

A design turn

Why UX must move beyond efficiency to address systemic consequences.

2

edition.cnn.com

Apollo’s bold, unruly and controversial successor

A visual guide to the audacious moon-landing mission design that put SpaceX and NASA in the hot seat.

3

typescale.ai

Typescale AI

Generate modular type scales and design tokens instantly.

4

dropleaf.app

AI Taxonomy

When someone says "AI", ask: "Which category?" Force specificity.

5

karlkoch.me

On adding homepage delight

A vinyl-style music shelf with spring physics, deflection, hover layers and velocity gating.

Tuesday03/03

1

hvpandya.com

Expose your design system to LLMs

LLMs drift, fabricate tokens, and start every session from scratch. Here’s how to feed your design system to AI coding agents so they stop guessing.

2

tylercoderre.com

Design systems checklist

A step-by-step checklist for building design systems.

3

amplifying.ai

What Claude Code actually chooses

Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.

4

itsnicethat.com

Who owns this book?

The guide for every designer’s worst nightmare: copyright.

5

martinfowler.com

Design-first collaboration

Before writing code, dialog with progressive levels of design alignment.

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