The five best design links, every weekday

Monday09/15

1

bit.ly

The UX Design Awards Spring 2026 are now open for entries!Sponsored

Showcase your UX projects globally, earn expert recognition, and give your design team the credit they deserve! Submit your work until November 15!

2

uxdesign.cc

When UX dad meets board games

Great kids’ board games are tangible UX journeys.

3

piccalil.li

While you’re fixing the fun stuff, fix the important stuff too

We walk through a fictional bug and fix a little visual issue, but we then spend time uncovering other much more important issues and fix them too.

4

dansinker.com

The amazing art of the video game marquee

The marquee back then had to do a lot of work, because the games themselves were all low resolution and blocky affairs.

5

a11y-collective.com

Accessible writing techniques

If you want your content to reach and engage more people, accessibility should be at the heart of your writing process.

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Friday09/12

1

buttondown.com

How to fold socks

How do you think about your creative practice? What are the most important parts of it?

2

slack.design

Design ops at Slack

How to make a big impact with a small team.

3

gamesbymason.com

Stop shipping PNGs in your games

Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? Here's a better approach.

4

zettelkasten.de

The scam called “you don’t have to remember anything”

Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory.

5

longform.asmartbear.com

Your target market isn’t demographic

How to define your actual target market, which probably isn’t traditional demographics and firmographics.

Thursday09/11

1

geoffreylitt.com

AI as teleportation

Here’s a thought experiment for pondering the effects AI might have on society: What if we invented teleportation?

2

the-brandidentity.com

Brutal types

Unearthing Europe’s forgotten interwar letterforms.

3

newsminimalist.com

News minimalist

A news aggregator that ranks news by significance. It uses ChatGPT to analyze ~30,000 news articles every day, ranking significance from 0 to 10.

4

figma.com

Figma: eye-following card

A nice little experiment that might inspire other ideas.

5

kk.org

The trust quotient (TQ)

Trust is a broad word that will be unbundled as it seeps into the AI ecosystem.

Wednesday09/10

1

emilkowal.ski

You don’t need animations

Why you are animating more often than you should.

2

thenanyu.com

Skip to the end

Computers gave us the means, but AI gives us the ends. What was virtually impossible became trivial in a hurry.

3

interconnected.org

The destination for AI interfaces is "do what I mean"

A smart + straightforward way to frame how AI will change the user interface.

4

panamaplaylists.com

Panama playlists

The real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists.

5

xipu.li

The last programmers

We’re witnessing the final generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand.

Tuesday09/09

1

spyglass.org

A cynical read on Anthropic’s book settlement

$1.5B. Damn. Who can afford to pay that? A very cynical read.

2

oklch.fyi

OKLCH color picker, generator and converter

Build unique and uniform color palettes. Preview on UI components, export CSS or Tailwind variables, and learn why OKLCH outperforms RGB and HSL.

3

blog.frost.kiwi

Video game blurs

How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works.

4

figma.com

Why is corpcore suddenly such a thing?

Software swag has upped its swag factor. Here’s why wearing your app on your sleeve has gone from cringeworthy to cool.

5

addyosmani.com

A history of our browser

Chrome turns 17 this week, and it feels like a good time to reflect on how far we have come in terms of Chromes guiding principles.

Monday09/08

1

bit.ly

The Playbook: behind the screensSponsored

Raw design and startup lessons. From craft to chaos, learn how great apps are built, and the truths nobody shares. For ambitious builders.

2

danielmiessler.com

No, AI is not a bubble

Why the AI bubble argument misunderstands both bubbles and AI.

3

oddbird.net

Visualizing responsive typography

What do all the numbers in our clamp() do?

4

theverge.com

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

5

tpgi.com

On dashes, AI, and screen readers

Em dash, en dash, hyphen, minus symbol - what do they have to do with AI and how do screen readers treat them?

Friday09/05

1

otherbranch.com

No, you don’t want to hire “the best engineers"

Just say those words to any room full of recruiters, and everyone will give a wry chuckle and roll their eyes. We've all heard it a million times.

2

theguardian.com

American ads of the 1930s—in pictures

The end of prohibition but also the start of the Great Depression and the looming threat of war. What a mix.

3

smashingmagazine.com

Beyond the hype: what AI can really do for UX

From analytics and ideation to prototyping and visual design—where AI fits and where it doesn’t, illustrated with real-world examples.

4

knowaboutaccessibility.org

5 fixes to make digital spaces calmer for all users

Digital spaces must also support people whose minds process information differently.

5

blog.robbowley.net

Maybe it wasn’t the tech after all

What if most of the benefit from successful technology change doesn’t come from the technology at all?

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