The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday09/15

1

darioamodei.com

We must pace the frontier

Dario Amodei proposes a three-step framework for AI companies to slow capability progress to ensure safety systems.

2

bencho.dev

Bencho

A library of interactive UI blocks you can explore, tweak, and take straight into your projects.

3

pangrampangram.com

Optical vs. mathematical alignment

While software can place objects with mathematical precision, our eyes don’t always agree with the result.

4

maggieappleton.com

Planning with agents

Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents.

5

earendil.com

If coding is solved, what now?

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.

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Monday09/14

1

bit.ly

Productivity for people with back-to-back meetingsSponsored

No more "wait, what did we decide?" moments. Just clarity. And follow-through.

2

uxdesign.cc

Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward.

3

typeincube.com

CUBE Type

A tiny playground for isometric typography. Type a few words. Get isometric block letters you can export and share. Free, no sign-up.

4

terriblesoftware.org

AI is breaking this thing we call trust

Work can look finished without being understood. That uncertainty erodes trust, slows reviews, and leaves colleagues doing the missing work.

5

canvas-browser.com

Canvas Browser

Open many websites side by side on one infinite canvas, each one running in a remote browser in the country you choose.

Friday09/11

1

sjg.io

AI is making us build too much

AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.

2

edoardolunardi.github.io

Kugiri (区切り)

Splits text into lines, words and characters exactly where the browser already broke it.

3

dontasktoask.com

Don’t ask to ask, just ask

If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we?

4

worseonpurpose.com

Why products get worse

Where quality lives, and how companies drain it from your products without a metric moving.

5

ky.fyi

Building data-driven design systems

How I scaled Scribe’s design system to help serve over 6 million users.

Thursday09/10

1

distributedthoughts.org

One floor up

OpenAI and Anthropic describe agents reaching real systems during evaluations. The capability is here. So is the work of containing it.

2

the-brandidentity.com

GridScout’s brand identity

How industrial visual languages build credibility with field crews and corporate boards alike.

3

newsletter.baselinedesign.com

Naming the middle

Notes on the semantic layer of a design system.

4

dialkit.dev

DialKit

Tune interfaces in real time and make the details feel right. DialKit puts live controls beside the interface you’re building.

5

ibelick.com

Anatomy of AI input

Understanding the structure of an AI input, layer by layer.

Wednesday09/09

1

design.lightspark.com

Limit the number of details

Every detail asks for attention. Limiting how many we add is what gives us room to make the ones that remain better.

2

worldlabs.ai

Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence

A new omni world model for spatial intelligence, that can perform a broad range of tasks spanning world generation, reconstruction, and simulation.

3

opensourceui.in

Opensource UI

A free, MIT-licensed copy-paste library of 200+ production-ready React and Next.js components. Built with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS v4.

4

casestudy.club

The designer who drew Cursor’s icons

Marek Minor drew Cursor’s complete icon set, more than 600 icons by hand.

5

voiceinthemachine.com

Four questions about AGI

How much work that undefined term is being asked to do, and an attempt to understand it better.

Tuesday09/08

1

uxdesign.cc

When the canvas starts acting, who’s really in control?

How agentic interfaces are changing what designers control, from interactions to agency, orchestration and attention.

2

calpaterson.com

Agent memory as a file format

A vastly simpler way to do agent memory

3

recipetables.com

RecipeTables

Any recipe at a glance. Paste a recipe (or a URL) and get it back as a nested prep table. Ingredients as rows, steps as merged columns.

4

lucet.design

Lucet

AI interface patterns for what comes next: the missing states designed, the missing features working.

5

jennywanger.com

Burnt out on a three-day week

She works three days a week. She’s still burnt out. When rest doesn’t fix the exhaustion, the workload was never the problem.

Monday09/07

1

ref.wisprflow.ai

Are you still typing your prompts, really?Sponsored

Flow makes writing quick and clear with seamless voice dictation. It is the fastest, smartest way to type with your voice.

2

blog.mastykarz.nl

Your product didn’t get worse

Customers still like your product and keep renewing. Meanwhile, their expectations may be changing in ways your usual signals won’t reveal.

3

looogos.com

Looogos

A curated collection of logos discovered in the wild for design inspiration.

4

fourmodes.teybannerman.com

Four modes of working with AI

A practical framework for getting better results from AI tools. Four modes, dozens of scenarios, ready-to-use prompts.

5

nyn.me

The singular viable product

Why software built for one is no longer an escape from scale, but its new starting point.

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