The five best design links, every weekday

Friday10/31

1

uxdesign.cc

Building AI-driven workflows powered by Claude Code

How agentic CLI tools extend Figma MCP and turn wireframes into production-ready prototypes.

2

dotcom.press

A brief history of domains

This year, dot com turned 40. Nearly a billion domains have been registered during that period.

3

nngroup.com

Using AI for UX work: study guide

A collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about the best ways to use artificial intelligence for UX work.

4

idiallo.com

The TikTok model is the future of the web

Not the future we want, but the one we're getting.

5

hvpandya.com

Mobile to models and leading design with craft

With models emerging as the new material, leadership is about figuring out the unknowns again.

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Thursday10/30

1

hvpandya.com

Fast is a moat

Speed—turning ideas into tangible results quickly is the most powerful competitive advantage you can build.

2

figma.com

Figma plugin: Figmentation

Automate the process of extracting design tokens directly from your Figma components — including colors, typography, spacing, borders, and effects.

3

itsnicethat.com

Why Gothic endures in visual culture

Gothic has moved from subcultural spaces into mainstream design practice. What’s causing its resurrection?

4

blog.joemag.dev

The new calculus of AI-based coding

Agentic coding instead of vibe coding—much less exciting, but in our industry boring is usually good.

5

blog.damato.design

Design attractors

Hot take: the design system specialist role will eventually disappear.

Wednesday10/29

1

alearningaday.blog

Everything is television

How the cause for the global decline in intelligence could be attributed to the fact that we now get to carry this box in our pocket.

2

experiments.randomthebook.com

LinkedIn wisdom generator

Profound-sounding quotes that mean absolutely nothing. Just wait for all the likes you'll get.

3

grillopress.github.io

Creating prototypes constrained by the medium not our skills or understanding

When innovation is limited by the designers control and understanding of the medium.

4

semantic.art

Semantic.art

An anti-slop art search engine that invites you to search with your imagination.

5

vsanchezgomez.substack.com

We’ve all bought into technosolutionism, but we can opt out

Dismantling a culture that idolizes privately owned tech as a method of social progress.

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.

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.

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