The five best design links, every weekday

Wednesday02/18

1

uxdesign.cc

AI’s text-trap

AI assistants don’t have to communicate in paragraphs. They can communicate through interfaces.

2

oooooooooooo.xyz

Internet time capsule

An internet time capsule that will arrive once wifi reaches the moon.

3

peoplevsbig.tech

People vs. Big Tech

A growing, global movement fighting for a better digital future.

4

natemeyvis.com

On cognitive debt

AI-generated codebases are at risk of falling into a state where nobody knows how they work.

5

anildash.com

Launch it 3 times

Why your first launch might not be enough.

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Tuesday02/17

1

henry.codes

A website to end all websites

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

2

wtfhappened2012.com

WTF happened in 2012?

A collection of long-term charts showing societal, economic, and behavioral trends aligned around 2011–2014.

3

rehumanize.io

AI Humanizer

The irony of this: Make content natural to bypass AI detection and feel truly human.

4

jonnyburch.com

Life after Figma is coming (and it will be glorious)

As code becomes source of truth, design tools become interfaces on code, not the other way round.

5

anthony.noided.media

I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

Will I be able to acquire a job after this one, or if AI is going to completely take over my profession and ruin my career?

Monday02/16

1

ilyabirman.net

Design is dead, it’s all evolution now

There’s no design in digital products anymore. It’s been replaced by evolution.

2

findfont.co

Find Font

Preview and compare fonts side by side. Download free fonts and test local uploads.

3

creativeboom.com

Li Wang captures life, love and longing in color

From sunlit beaches to intimate interiors, the Beijing-born artist explores masculinity, queer diasporic experience and personal memory.

4

addyosmani.com

Agentic Engineering

Agentic Engineering is a disciplined approach to AI-assisted software development that emphasizes human oversight and engineering rigor.

5

unsung.aresluna.org

How to make sure a designer never files a bug again

The best places I’ve worked were filled with shared trust and treated bugs as a joined responsibility of everyone.

Friday02/13

1

nngroup.com

Your design system needs an enforcer

Although design systems promise consistency, most still fail without someone actively enforcing the rules and making teams follow them.

2

woven-sound.surge.sh

Woven Sound

An experimental interface to create serendipitous sounds and music.

3

sports.withgoogle.com

Google Cloud x Team USA

An AI tool that transforms standard video into actionable data, helping athletes find their competitive edge for the Olympic Winter Games.

4

searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

Searching for Birds

An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations.

5

unsung.aresluna.org

Molly guard in reverse

The story of the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.

Thursday02/12

1

seangoedecke.com

Large tech companies don’t need heroes

It's processes and incentives that determine what happens, not any individual heroics.

2

r74n.com

What are the odds?

Explore the probabilities of some of the rarest events in history.

3

uxdesign.cc

The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals

Designing how models behave.

4

interbrand.com

Best Global Brands 2025

Top 100 most valuable global brands according to Interbrand, with historical data since 2000.

5

lethain.com

Refactoring internal documentation in Notion

Making changes that actually work instead of optically sounding impressive.

Wednesday02/11

1

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Saying “no” in an age of abundance

Wait, we have AI now. We don’t have to say no to 1,000 things. We can say yes to all the things — generate them all, simultaneously!!!1

2

ferrari.com

Ferrari Luce

A first look at the interior and interface of the Ferrari Luce, designed by Jony Ive.

3

dri.es

The software sovereignty scale

Digital sovereignty depends less on where software comes from and more on who controls it.

4

css-tricks.com

Trying to make the perfect pie chart in CSS

Can we make pie chart that’s semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library?

5

ralphammer.com

No more boring drawings

Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. Why are these drawings so boring?

Tuesday02/10

1

shaunbent.co.uk

Is there too much design in design systems?

Most design system roles are design-focused, but the biggest value comes from code. Are we building design systems, or just designing them?

2

glyphs.djr.com

DJR Glyph Navigator

Explore David Jonathan Ross’ type design, one letter at a time.

3

optical.toys

Optical Toys

A collection of optical illusions and optical toys by Toms Toys.

4

fffej.substack.com

Post-mortem theatre

I put a post-mortem in your post-mortem.

5

localghost.dev

Stop generating, start thinking

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

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