The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday10/28

1

geoffreylitt.com

Code like a surgeon

A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but that might be a dangerously incomplete view.

2

badux.lol

Bad UX world cup

Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy.

3

seangoedecke.com

How I influence company politics as a staff software engineer

You don't need to be fatalistic about company politics.

4

brodzinski.com

Trust networks as antidote to AI slop

In response to AI slop we will increasingly rely on trust networks in professional dealings. Trust will be the new business currency.

5

linear.app

A Linear spin on Liquid Glass

Adopting Apple’s new APIs wouldn’t give the team the control they needed to build their new navigation.

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Monday10/27

1

dvtl.link

Move faster with Dovetail’s all-new AI tools and integrationsSponsored

Spend less time chasing feedback and more time building. Explore what’s new in Dovetail’s Fall 2025 launch.

2

world.hey.com

When design drives behavior

In some cases, design is what something looks like. In other cases, design is how it works. But the most interesting is when design changes behavior.

3

cluesbysam.com

Clues

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent.

4

trevorlasn.com

Original work is now an endangered species

When everything looks the same, being different becomes valuable again.

5

design.dev

Free web dev icons

Download free, customizable SVG icons. Change colors, download, or copy to clipboard. Perfect for web design & development projects.

Friday10/24

1

lukew.com

Tackling common UX hurdles with AI

Some UX issues have been with us so long that we stopped thinking we could do better.

2

drobinin.com

Designing software for things that rot

Why building for rot is nothing like building happy-path apps.

3

justoffbyone.com

Measuring engineering productivity

A lightweight system for measuring engineering productivity that puts the overhead on managers, not engineers.

4

anildash.com

ChatGPT’s Atlas: the browser that’s anti-web

Dangers from an anti-web browser made by an AI company—one that probably needs a warning label when you install it.

5

pentagram.com

Archive — Pentagram

50 years of design work condensed into an immersive exploration.

Thursday10/23

1

frankchimero.com

Beyond the machine

Frank Chimero is back again with one of the most spectactular pieces of design writing I've read in a while.

2

thomasmoes.com

52 weeks of obsessions

A tiny corner of the internet to reclaim creativity & curiosity. New obsession every week.

3

figma.com

Android Watch: face designer playground

Contains examples and components to use with the Watch Face Designer.

4

jessylin.com

The continual learning problem

How do we keep updating the parameters of a model without breaking it?

5

smashingmagazine.com

How to make your UX research hard to ignore

Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do.

Wednesday10/22

1

anildash.com

The majority AI view

We're in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned.

2

durves.com

Durves: a design pattern tool

Create and export dot patterns. For graphic designers, UI/UX, and other visual professionals.

3

herbertlui.net

Don’t let a misunderstanding distract you from your goals

You can decide what certain moments mean to you.

4

cartography-of-generative-ai.net

Cartography of generative AI

What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?

5

brodzinski.com

We will not trust autonomous AI agents anytime soon

Considering autonomous AI agents from an organizational culture vantage point suggests that we won’t trust them in predictable future.

Tuesday10/21

1

jamesshore.com

The accountability problem

How do we define software department accountability so our business partners don’t do it for us?

2

youtube.com

How did the world get so ugly?

Look at the objects around you: furniture, cars, doors, bins, staircases, railings, doorbells, doorhandles. Do you like how they look, or not?

3

navbar.gallery

Navbar gallery

A collection of the best website navbar inspiration designs on the web.

4

baldurbjarnason.com

The inevitability of anger

Maturity means emotional regulation – not absence or denial of emotion, but regulation.

5

nathanbeck.eu

Alienation by design

When design to reduce friction risks eroding human connection.

Monday10/20

1

boydkane.com

Why your boss isn’t worried about AI

When it comes to understanding the dangers of AI systems, the general public has the worst kind of knowledge.

2

uxdesign.cc

How to approach privacy in the age of smart glasses

Smart glasses present new opportunities for scammers, perverts, and cheaters.

3

jaredcunha.com

Writing alt text with AI

LLMs can lower the burden of writing useful alt text for images, with the right prompting.

4

austinhenley.com

The design space of AI coding tools

10 design dimensions based on 90 AI coding tools.

5

itsnicethat.com

If print is not dead, who’s keeping it alive?

Some of the people crafting our tangible visual worlds about what the next generation of printmaking might look like… and if there is one.

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