The five best design links, every weekday

Friday09/18

1

uxdesign.cc

For the Designless

On the value of cultural references, and the cost of losing them at scale.

2

craft.gustavofior.com

Craft

A collection of design engineering concepts.

3

seldo.com

We are all Product Engineers now

Where, in fact, is the entire industry of software going in the next decade?

4

carmenansio.com

Why your numbers look wrong

It’s the figures your font gives you by default, and the better ones it keeps a switch away.

5

buzzusborne.com

Designing with AI

How a career of building creative teams and design systems led to AI tools that increase speed without lowering the quality bar.

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Thursday09/17

1

uxdesign.cc

Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

2

emesstyle.com

WCAG Accessibility Guidelines Explorer

Learn and understand web accessibility standards with interactive demos showing violations vs. solutions.

3

martinfowler.com

Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code

Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems

4

liamnugent.me

The most important product decision is what you don’t build

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

5

yegge.ai

Seats and sunsets

Understanding agent orchestration economics, model capability thresholds, token burn rates, and structural failure modes.

Wednesday09/16

1

pop.rdi.sh

Dario, please

Debunking AI apocalypse hype and exposing CEO calls for open-source bans as self-serving tactics to protect corporate moats.

2

brainfunctioncollapse.com

Let’s talk about gradients

A short essay on tools, with a working exhibit.

3

opusfived.dev

Opusfived

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

4

rauno.me

Rauno's field notes: 5

How removing pagination arrows in favor of interactive card stacks solves tight UI spatial constraints.

5

sidebranch.dev

Sidebranch: worktree visual diffing

Review PRs from inside your running app: switch branches from an in-page widget and compare worktrees side by side.

Tuesday09/15

1

darioamodei.com

We must pace the frontier

Dario Amodei proposes a three-step framework for AI companies to slow capability progress to ensure safety systems.

2

bencho.dev

Bencho

A library of interactive UI blocks you can explore, tweak, and take straight into your projects.

3

pangrampangram.com

Optical vs. mathematical alignment

While software can place objects with mathematical precision, our eyes don’t always agree with the result.

4

maggieappleton.com

Planning with agents

Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents.

5

earendil.com

If coding is solved, what now?

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.

Monday09/14

1

bit.ly

Productivity for people with back-to-back meetingsSponsored

No more "wait, what did we decide?" moments. Just clarity. And follow-through.

2

uxdesign.cc

Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

3

typeincube.com

CUBE Type

A tiny playground for isometric typography. Type a few words. Get isometric block letters you can export and share. Free, no sign-up.

4

terriblesoftware.org

AI is breaking this thing we call trust

Work can look finished without being understood. That uncertainty erodes trust, slows reviews, and leaves colleagues doing the missing work.

5

canvas-browser.com

Canvas Browser

Open many websites side by side on one infinite canvas, each one running in a remote browser in the country you choose.

Friday09/11

1

sjg.io

AI is making us build too much

AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.

2

edoardolunardi.github.io

Kugiri (区切り)

Splits text into lines, words and characters exactly where the browser already broke it.

3

dontasktoask.com

Don’t ask to ask, just ask

If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we?

4

worseonpurpose.com

Why products get worse

Where quality lives, and how companies drain it from your products without a metric moving.

5

ky.fyi

Building data-driven design systems

How I scaled Scribe’s design system to help serve over 6 million users.

Thursday09/10

1

distributedthoughts.org

One floor up

OpenAI and Anthropic describe agents reaching real systems during evaluations. The capability is here. So is the work of containing it.

2

the-brandidentity.com

GridScout’s brand identity

How industrial visual languages build credibility with field crews and corporate boards alike.

3

newsletter.baselinedesign.com

Naming the middle

Notes on the semantic layer of a design system.

4

dialkit.dev

DialKit

Tune interfaces in real time and make the details feel right. DialKit puts live controls beside the interface you’re building.

5

ibelick.com

Anatomy of AI input

Understanding the structure of an AI input, layer by layer.

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