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Monday11/09
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What does design system AI readiness mean, anyway?
Maybe it’s less about machine-legible artifacts and more about where humans stay in the loop.
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edge-aura
An organic glow that hugs the edge of your screen. Zero-dependency Canvas 2D engine with a thin React adapter.
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Site Seeing
See how a web page will behave in different contexts that force unusual viewport sizes.
Friday11/06
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Everyone is building AI agents. Who’s designing the stop button?
Here’s why the hardest design decisions happen where that autonomy ends.
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A sans serif built on oversized round shapes
Superior Type’s Heaven is a brutalist grotesque built on round shapes that are too big for their space.
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Tokenizer Mono
A monospace font that highlights LLM tokens as you type. No JavaScript, just OpenType substitution rules and a color table.
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Attention is all you need
A report from the future on AI, attention, and the maintenance of civilization
Thursday11/05
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Great but painful
If you want to build a product that people will use, find something that people already do and make it less painful.
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Designing a skill
Skills are becoming the apps of the agentic era. What you learn shipping quality software still applies to them.
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Nubank: Rebrand
Brand redesign and digital foundations built to fight complexity and empower people, with a system that stays unmistakably Nu.
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Digital minimalism
Being intentional about ways that you access digital technology, making each use a conscious choice.
Wednesday11/04
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Avant Garde
A seminal, but somewhat overlooked by a wider public, magazine, which broke taboos, rattled some nerves and made a few enemies.
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Building an AI-ready design system library
Why my design system starts in code, and how I build, check and maintain the Figma library.
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The window with no buttons
Why the terminal feels so unfamiliar to designers, and how to read it anyway.
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Paper Mono
A beautiful monospace font family with 8 variable weights and coding ligatures, free and open source.
Tuesday11/03
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Fingerprints are the new cookies
How browser fingerprinting replaces third-party cookies for persistent user tracking. And to the highest bidder it goes.
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Jelly UI
A dependency-free Web Components library for tactile product interfaces: soft-body physics, real form controls, dark mode, RTL and WCAG.
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There will always be someone faster, cheaper, and better
AI has designers questioning everything. But the three things we think we’re chosen for haven’t changed at all.
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Desigma
Free Figma alternative made on Rust. An independent, local-first, open-source design tool.
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How to hire junior engineers in the age of AI
Junior developer hiring has collapsed because nobody knows how to interview for the new AI-assisted job.
Monday11/02
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The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored
Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. Give it a try during your next meeting.
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Who owns the doubt?
Nobody arrives at their first design job doubting their first idea; they defend it, usually too loudly.
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A select should tell you something
Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.
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Friday10/30
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Struggle together
I learned programming and design by trying, failing, and trying again. When I hit a wall, I figured out how to climb it.
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The New York Times turns 175
A custom 175 mark and identity system to use across editorial, opinion, advertising, events and marketing.
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Website migration costs are going to zero
What happens when AI makes website migrations almost free?
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Hairline
Thirty-three isometric line figures that answer the pointer. SVG, no dependencies, for React and for everything else.
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Text-to-cad
Design physical products with AI. Free, open-source CAD for AI agents like Codex and Claude Code.