The five best design links, every weekday

Friday11/21

1

chrbutler.com

What AI is really for

Best case: we’re in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they’re doing.

2

openrailwaymap.org

Open railway map

An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure.

3

pbs.org

David Kelley’s brief but spectacular take on creativity and design

David Kelley reflects on the journey that shaped his belief that everyone has the capacity to be creative.

4

theguardian.com

How pop music fell in love with socialist infographics

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education—but ended up impacting way more.

5

humaninvariant.com

Blame as a service (BaaS)

Productized scapegoating—a reflection.

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Thursday11/20

1

trevorlasn.com

Good enough is a strategy

Your competitors will eat your lunch while you refactor.

2

zehfernandes.com

The folded world

That is the heartbeat of contemporary AI. The models are creating meaning, yet their pathways remain opaque.

3

uxdesign.cc

Ornament and culture

Interface as social signifier.

4

itsnicethat.com

A typeface made of pulsating particles

The neon green accent colour of the French festival’s 2025 identity was so catchy that attendees integrated the hue into their outfits.

5

yusufaytas.com

What good execution looks like

Quiet execution means low operational noise, clear ownership and stable context, with delivery, reliability and human signals aligned.

Wednesday11/19

1

scatterarrow.com

All your coworkers are probabilistic too

LLMs, humans and the old tricks that still work.

2

uxdesign.cc

What we lose when we lose the creative struggle

How removing friction from creative tools removes the meaning from creative work.

3

sopd.design

State of product design

Workflows, burnout, AI impact, career growth, and job market insights across regions and company types.

4

bestfreefonts.com

Best free fonts

A curated selection of free fonts. Including serif, sans serif, script and monospace.

5

stuffandnonsense.co.uk

My CSS selector strategy

Writing great CSS is a matter of strategic restraint, not over-specification.

Tuesday11/18

1

uxdesign.cc

Let designers think

How “Thinking” + “Designing” need to be practiced outside AI.

2

logo.dev

Logo API

Get company logos via API in seconds. Access millions of verified brand logos in SVG, PNG & WebP.

3

android-dreams.ai

Android dreams

A prediction essay for the next 20 years of intelligent robotics.

4

pudding.cool

In pursuit of democracy

Analyzing every mention of ‘democracy’ in the American Congressional Record.

5

nngroup.com

Good visual design, explained

Align type and elements to a grid, build a clear visual hierarchy, use color intentionally, and stay consistent with every design choice.

Monday11/17

1

ivyforms.com

Fine-tune your forms & capture more info than ever beforeSponsored

Build free WordPress forms that are easy to complete – and even easier to track.

2

tonsky.me

Needy programs

We used to use software; now software started to use us.

3

youtube.com

Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore

A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.

4

chrisloy.dev

The AI coding trap

Software development is fundamentally a practice of problem-solving, and so, most of the work is done in your head.

5

typefully.com

Why do we need dithering?

Before we all mute the word ‘dithering’, here's why we needed to dither digital images in the first place.

Friday11/14

1

doc.cc

To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything

AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it.

2

nomadstudio.com

A typographic time-splice of Holborn

A font that's a celebration of one of London’s oldest commercial districts.

3

auldenglish.com

Auld English fonts

Fonts that simulate the experience of reading in olden days, by diverse means.

4

boagworld.com

Marketing UX within your organization

Guerrilla marketing tactics to raise UX awareness and shift your organization’s culture without a big budget.

5

smashingmagazine.com

Six key components of UX Strategy

The building blocks of UX strategy and how it helps create user value while achieving company goals.

Thursday11/13

1

uxdesign.cc

Bridging product design and AI thinking

The shift in product design with the advent of AI and a potential generative experiential future.

2

claude.com

Claude use cases

Practical examples across research, writing, coding, analysis, and everyday tasks on how to collaborate with Claude AI.

3

perspective-dev.github.io

Perspective dataviz

An interactive analytics and data visualization component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.

4

tympanus.net

Building a real game as a designer using AI

A look behind a design-first diabetes education game, built by hand-crafted pixel art and powered by an AI that mostly knew what it was doing.

5

lukew.com

How design teams are reacting to 10x dev productivity from AI

When software development teams experience huge productivity booms, how do design teams respond?

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