The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday10/06

1

doc.cc

Prompting as self-portrait

AI installed a distorted mirror where the blank page used to be.

2

leadershipfolios.com

Leadership folios

Portfolios from design managers, directors, VPs, and executives, each annotated with what it shows, why it works at that level, and what to steal.

3

uxdesign.cc

Is Meta’s new AI agent easier to trust because it’s cute?

Muse comes with an avatar you design and a keyring gadget. Few people would hand Meta their passwords, yet it topped the US App Store.

4

lukew.com

Many agents, many views

You manage agents, they manage more agents, and those agents manage even more agents.

5

nytimes.com

In defense of the detour

On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.

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Monday10/05

1

bit.ly

Save time with Wispr Flow (4x faster than typing)Sponsored

The voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app.

2

uxdesign.cc

How to de-slopify your designs

Tips for anyone who vibecodes.

3

tomacco.github.io

Amazing glass

Glass that bends the page behind it. Liquid glass web components for HTML, React and Vue, tuned pixel by pixel against Apple’s own renderer.

4

unsung.aresluna.org

A loading state within a loading state

Loading is a complex space, where sometimes the most natural solution is a bad one.

5

hitesh.in

Google has the best AI money can buy. Its products still feel broken.

Google’s AI-era products keep breaking an old trust contract with users, and the model isn’t the reason.

Friday10/02

1

renatovaldes.com

What happens when you can build it all yourself

What speed is doing to my expectations, my attention and the case for startup funding.

2

thinkingorbs.com

Thinking orbs

A React component library of well-crafted, animated orbs for AI: thinking, searching, compacting and more status indicators. Free, open source.

3

useblume.dev

Blume

The open-source docs framework for humans and agents. Drop Markdown into a folder and ship a fast docs site.

4

philipwalton.com

Modern web types

TypeScript intentionally doesn’t support all new APIs, but there’s an easy fix.

5

brookslybrand.com

Do frameworks matter anymore?

How abstractions constrain AI agents, helping engineering teams evaluate long-term web architecture choices.

Thursday10/01

1

uxdesign.cc

The lie we keep telling ourselves about regulating AI

The excuse for not regulating AI is that nobody can agree how. The people who built the internet would find that laughable.

2

design.google

Google's 3D emoji design process

How Google brought 3,977 Noto emoji into 3D.

3

blog.murphytrueman.com

I can’t tell who’s teaching who anymore

On inheriting my mum’s sentences, and watching them read as a machine’s.

4

libraries.dev

Agent skill: Libraries.dev

Teach your coding agent Border beam, Thinking orbs, Gooey, Voice, Bot avatars, Liquid metal and Image.

5

2026.stateofdevs.com

State of Devs 2026

Nearly half of this year's survey respondents had experienced job insecurity and insufficient wages.

Wednesday09/30

1

chrbutler.com

AI is a boring technology

Is AI as interesting as what it helps you do? I don’t think it is, and I mean that as a compliment.

2

vincent.bernat.ch

Sidenotes with CSS anchor positioning

Sidenotes positioned in the margin with CSS anchor positioning, without JavaScript. On narrow viewports and older browsers, they fall back below...

3

hacker-simulator.com

Online hacker simulator

This interactive online hacker app will let you simulate that you’re hacking a computer or a digital network.

4

vgpu.sh

The WebGPU library, designed for agents

Fullscreen shaders, compute pipelines, raw WebGPU interop, and read-only source files compiled directly by this docs app.

5

discourse.haskell.org

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account?

Tuesday09/29

1

hipuku.dev

The default is not a design decision

How the design industry built the infrastructure of sameness, and called it best practice.

2

aymannadeem.com

Plan mode is dead

Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.

3

rudyfaile.com

The age of the soft skill

The engineer who missed meetings, answered Slack when they felt like it, and audibly sighed when you asked them to write something down.

4

anas-sabbar.ca

What your phone is made of

The mined materials in a mobile phone, and which countries produced each of them in 2025, from U.S. Geological Survey data.

5

youtube.com

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al

As AI makes it easier to build, how do we keep products from becoming generic “zombie UI”?

Monday09/28

1

bit.ly

Productivity for people with back to back meetingsSponsored

You know that feeling when you leave a meeting and immediately forget half of what you agreed to?

2

flaviocopes.com

12 CSS features you can use today with no build step

Modern CSS features that replace Sass, PostCSS plugins and JavaScript hacks.

3

chriscoyier.net

The four tiers of tab importance

Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian.

4

codewithbeto.dev

Is your app ready for iPhone Duo?

Rebuild with Xcode 27.1, then let size, Split View, the fold, and system controls decide how your app uses the extra space on iPhone Duo.

5

davekiss.com

A eulogy for the software engineer

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bury the software engineer.

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