The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday06/04

1

uxdesign.cc

Designing how designers master AI

Learning to bend it to how you already think—and how that kind of mastery is personal, divergent, and never finished.

2

transitions.dev

Transitions.dev

Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project.

3

darylcecile.net

The speed of prototyping in the age of AI

How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I’m doing to keep my hands dirty.

4

letterbox.sh

Letterbox — Letters made of letters

Letters shaped by text. Pick a font, choose your colors, and watch type come alive.

5

allenpike.com

Building for voice In, visuals out

Flashes of brilliance, and the tyranny of latency.

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Wednesday06/03

1

poyo.co

Two LLM UI patterns that aren’t chat

Structures that manage context and data retrieval more effectively for complex, non-linear tasks.

2

meodai.github.io

heerich.js

Tiny engine for 3D voxel scenes rendered to SVG — boolean ops, oblique/perspective cameras, zero dependencies.

3

animations.dev

Motion vocabulary

A glossary of common animation patterns, so you know what to ask for.

4

itsnicethat.com

On frictionmaxxing and the creative virtues of inconvenience

In a culture obsessed with seamlessness and instant fulfilment, inconvenience is starting to feel strangely radical again.

5

davesresearch.com

Self-fulfilling projects

The projects that defy clarity and specificity.

Tuesday06/02

1

jackmaguire.org

AI job grief

AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.

2

toothcomb.codebox.net

Toothcomb

An AI-powered tool designed for analyzing and fact-checking live speech or text in real-time.

3

jacquescorbytuech.com

What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications

Over the last five years the on-device model began summarizing, reordering and, on some surfaces, rewriting it.

4

wikicommute.vercel.app

WikiCommute

Enter your available minutes and get a curated Wikipedia reading path that fits your commute.

5

dropbox.tech

Rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents

How Dropbox is moving towards agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks, and how we’re building platforms to support those workflows.

Monday06/01

1

bit.ly

pdf.to.design: static PDF → editable Figma designSponsored

Turn any PDF into a perfect Figma design—fully editable layers, extracted images & text, processed locally for privacy.

2

dubroy.com

Fast is better than slow

About 10 years ago, I realized all the best programmers I had worked with had something in common: they were fast.

3

heyneuma.com

A designer’s guide to opening Xcode for the first time

The MCPs that make Claude Code useful for iOS, and a working app on your phone by the end of the afternoon.

4

pscanf.com

The user is visibly frustrated

Agents behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don’t learn, adapt, or take responsibility the way people do.

5

uxdesign.cc

Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999

That means looking back at the unfinished, handmade web to reinvent how we design for AI—and who we become—now.

Friday05/29

1

robert-glaser.de

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

What changed because we spent those tokens?

2

mechanical-pencil.com

Mechanical pencil

Illustrating the engineering around us.

3

mudmapmagazine.com

The utopia of the family computer

There was a time when the internet had a place in the home; a corner, a schedule, a shared practice.

4

nngroup.com

What to do after a design critique ends

Most designers invest in running critiques but skip the followup. That missing step is often why feedback culture breaks down.

5

seangoedecke.com

Prompts are technical debt too

How to minimize custom prompting and rely on upstream tool updates.

Thursday05/28

1

uxdesign.cc

You are no longer the user. You are the principal.

The human is the principal. The agent is the operator. The architecture is the substrate they meet on.

2

justmovetoeurope.com

Just move to Europe

A practical map for people choosing an European base: compare cities, rooms, check setup paths, and start building from the right place.

3

alicepackarddesign.com

Why I don’t use icon fonts in Figma

SVGs are the way. Here are all the reasons why.

4

shapes.gg

Figma Agent: a first look

An integrated AI tool inside of Figma, with permission to go wild in your canvas. Let’s put it to the test.

5

chrbutler.com

Cynicism is a luxury; hope is a necessity.

One’s ability to ignore politics is a product of functional system that shares your worldview.

Wednesday05/27

1

uxdesign.cc

7 things that Vibe Design can’t replicate

Vibe design with intention, eyes open.

2

tokenblast.cc

TokenBlast

Interactive config generator for Claude Code environment flags. Find your preferred balance of cost, tokens, and thinking.

3

addyosmani.com

The orchestration tax is you

More agents running doesn’t mean more of you available—your cognitive bandwidth doesn’t parallelize.

4

impeccable.style

Impeccable: Design skills for AI harnesses

1 skill, 23 commands, and curated anti-patterns for impeccable frontend design. Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI.

5

isaiprofitable.com

Is AI profitable yet?

Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies.

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