The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday02/03

1

terriblesoftware.org

Why am I doing the thinking for you?

‘What do you think?’ without a position isn’t a question — it’s a task assignment. State your opinion first.

2

goodcart.design

Good Cart

The best designed ecommerce websites in one place.

3

agents.craft.do

Beautiful Mermaid

Open source diagram rendering library built for the AI era. Ultra-fast, fully themeable, outputs to SVG and ASCII.

4

erikjohannes.no

Outsourcing thinking

With certain skills you have to "use it or lose it" seems intuitively and empirically sound.

5

itsnicethat.com

Faking ‘realness’ on a computer doesn’t get us anywhere new

What does “analogue” actually mean when most things are made, shared, and consumed digitally?

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Monday02/02

1

interconnected.org

Singing the gospel of collective efficacy

The belief that you can make a difference by acting together.

2

resonantcomputing.org

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

A manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

3

wikipedia25.org

25 years of Wikipedia

From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history.

4

pangrampangram.com

How to use font ligatures

Font ligatures are a subtle yet powerful typographic feature that can elevate your design work.

5

architectelevator.com

The mighty metaphor

Set your audience free to think for themselves.

Friday01/30

1

iterativewonders.com

The word “Computer” meant human (at some point)

Originally named after the person it was meant to replace.

2

artvee.com

Artvee

Discover the best in Classical & Modern Art. Browse and download high-resolution, public domain Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations and Posters.

3

easemaster.satisui.xyz

Ease Master

Generate production-ready code for CSS, Tailwind, Framer Motion, and GSAP. Visualize Bezier curves and Spring physics side-by-side.

4

accessibilityforeveryone.site

Accessibility for Everyone

Read the book online for free.

5

alexharri.com

A deep dive into ASCII rendering

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

Thursday01/29

1

randsinrepose.com

Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way

A take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren’t a myth.

2

daily.jstor.org

The hidden history of women game designers

Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.

3

ragecheck.com

Rage Check

Analyze articles and social posts for manipulative language patterns, fear-mongering, and engagement bait.

4

ericwbailey.website

How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app

Keyboard shortcuts occupy a strange area for web design.

5

css-tricks.com

There is no need to trap focus on a dialog element

Accessibility advice around modals have commonly taught us to trap focus within the modal.

Wednesday01/28

1

blog.vbuckenham.com

Some thoughts about tool design and AI

Asking questions and waiting for a response is not the most productive way of doing things.

2

infiniteballdrop.com

Infinite Ball Drop

Where would the Times Square Ball be if it started dropping now?

3

maggieappleton.com

Gas Town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code.

4

tangiblemediacollection.com

Tangible Media

A historical collection of information storage technology—information you could hold in your hand.

5

agentation.dev

Agentation

A visual feedback tool for agents. The website homepage being the demo is such a nice detail.

Tuesday01/27

1

blog.jim-nielsen.com

CTA hierarchy in the wild

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

2

bugsappleloves.com

Bugs Apple loves

Bugs Apple won’t fix. Why else would they keep them around for so long? We did the math.

3

stroke.abhii.space

Stroke: animate SVGs

Create hand-drawn SVG animations for logos, signatures, and illustrations.

4

last-child.com

Building the brain of your accessibility AI

How accessibility leaders can build trusted, scalable AI assistants by curating the right standards, documentation, and institutional knowledge.

5

dbushell.com

Death to scroll fade

Fade what? Everything! Make everything fade into view! It’s too static, you know? Make it pop!

Monday01/26

1

bit.ly

From prompt to several wireframe variations <10 secondsSponsored

UX Pilot AI speeds your design process by turning text or sketches into UX/UI. Sync with Figma, upload guidelines, and start 100% for free.

2

blog.avas.space

Privacy is a value we can lose

We’re taking data protection and privacy rights for granted.

3

youtube.com

The persistence of decay

A funeral for a lighthouse, a sermon in fungus, our vanishing digital media, and the arrow of time.

4

visualrambling.space

Visualrambling.space

Just a place to ramble visually.

5

codegood.co

The context collapse problem

AI coding tools amplify whatever they can access. In codebases where institutional knowledge lives in engineers’ heads only, AI amplifies nothing.

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