The five best design links, every weekday

Wednesday04/22

1

samhenri.gold

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

The beast is hairy enough that entire design roles now specialize in wrangling the system itself.

2

wiretext.app

Wiretext

A spatial design tool where everything renders as Unicode box-drawing characters. Create wireframes, diagrams, and mockups.

3

lesswrong.com

There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical

What determines whether someone is capable of relatively quickly acquiring expert-level performance in other domains?

4

uicolors.app

Tailwind CSS colors

Generate, edit, save and share Tailwind CSS color shades based on a given hexcode or HSL color.

5

antmurphy.me

The AI chasm

Why most companies are still early in the AI journey—and what product leaders should focus on instead.

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Tuesday04/21

1

mattstromawn.com

Expansion artifacts

AI output gets inflated into blog posts and LinkedIn thoughtspam, software platforms, omnichannel advertising campaigns, and more.

2

asc11.com

ASCII art generator

Create ASCII art for websites and marketing from images, video, live cam, and templates.

3

andrewmurphy.io

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have a problem

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it.

4

thoughtshrapnel.com

The AI adoption spiral

The journey that people go on with any new tool.

5

microsoft.design

Design isn’t dying. It’s shifting left.

When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design.

Monday04/20

1

bit.ly

We built a banking app prototype with zero codeSponsored

Login, balance transfers, camera scanning—all built in ProtoPie. Explore the live demo, then see the 4-part breakdown.

2

medium.com

What Claude Design actually changes for designers

The handoff problem is finally getting solved—and it’s happening faster than most of us expected.

3

charcuterie.elastiq.ch

Charcuteria

A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters, discover related glyphs, and explore scripts, symbols, and shapes across the standard.

4

rajnandan.com

Good taste the only real moat left

The real edge comes from pairing judgment with context, stakes, and the willingness to build.

5

chrbutler.com

Red-lining AI

Blanket AI bans mistake the tool for the problem, Thoughtful integration of automation, ethics, and creative work offers a better path forward.

Friday04/17

1

uxdesign.cc

We become what we behold

A discussion of AI + Design and our shifting roles.

2

webaim.org

The WebAIM Million

The 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages.

3

marginalia.nu

AI makes you boring

Prompting an AI model is not articulating an idea. You get the output, but in terms of ideation the output is discardable.

4

smashingmagazine.com

How to improve UX in legacy systems

Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes.

5

daverupert.com

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. When speed is the priority, there’s no incentive to improve or invest in the shared system.

Thursday04/16

1

maggieappleton.com

One developer, two dozen agents, zero alignment

Why we need collaborative AI engineering.

2

font-stealer.vercel.app

Analyze any font

Extract and analyze fonts from any website instantly.

3

reuters.com

How California fights fires from the skies

High-stakes data visualization saves lives. This breakdown shows how clear mapping helps people navigate chaos.

4

davidmello.com

Playwright accessibility testing

Axe and Lighthouse miss 60–70% of WCAG violations. Learn the limitations of automated accessibility testing and how to write smarter Playwright tests.

5

lukew.com

The new designer/developer collaboration

A collaboration model that shined a light on how things could (no, should) be.

Wednesday04/15

1

matthiasott.com

Design and engineering, as one

Most of us are still running product teams on a model that was designed for a problem we don’t have.

2

awwwards.com

Case study: 100 Lost Species

A digital story about extinction that people could actively explore.

3

acolorbright.com

Aesthetics of AI

Observations on the visual identities of standout AI brands and the trends shaping them.

4

robonomics.substack.com

Org design in the age of AI

Everyone is adding AI to their workflows. Almost no one is rethinking why the workflow is shaped that way in the first place.

5

aestheticamagazine.com

The endurance of brutalism

This new exhibition spotlights Scotland’s post-war modernist architecture, selected from Phipps’ photographs of 160 buildings across the country.

Tuesday04/14

1

joshwcomeau.com

Squash and stretch

Using Disney's animation principles to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable.

2

trainjazz.com

Every train, a note

A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

3

theyseeyourphotos.com

They see your photos

Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees. Spoiler alert: more than you think.

4

nngroup.com

Handmade designs: the new trust signal

In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.

5

factory.ai

How missions work

Agent sessions work well for focused tasks, but most real projects are too broad and complex for a single context window.

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