The five best design links, every weekday

Friday10/03

1

matthewstrom.com

Decentralizing quality

Why moving judgment to the edges wins in the long run.

2

daverupert.com

Why I hate the MVP car

Despite taking the time to get the context and being a lover of iteration, I think I have built up petty grievances over the years with the MVP car.

3

itsnicethat.com

Light and shade: exploring creativity’s AI conundrum

A series interrogating the challenges and opportunities at the heart of the AI-creative conversation.

4

dennisdeacon.com

Baby steps accessibility

Low contrast text represents 79.1% of all errors. Find out how to make a dent on these issues.

5

ft.com

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away.

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Thursday10/02

1

andybudd.com

Should designers be paid the same as engineers?

People aren’t remunerated based on knowledge or effort, but on how much value they generate, protect, or multiply—plus accountability.

2

storyterra.com

StoryTerra

Explore stories by location and time.

3

theguardian.com

Sir Terry Farrell’s best buildings, in pictures

Sir Terry Farrell, the UK’s leading architect-planner and postmodernist, has died aged 87.

4

thescaleoflife.com

The scale of life

Experience the magnitude of the industrial age, nature, and everyday life firsthand.

5

equalentry.com

Accessible content for people with limited English proficiency

Unclear language and poor design can turn everyday tasks into stressful barriers, eroding independence and dignity.

Wednesday10/01

1

pangrampangram.com

How to create a typographic hierarchy

Whether you’re designing a website, brand, or publication, strong hierarchy ensures clarity; poor hierarchy leads to confusion.

2

hacker-laws.com

Hacker laws

Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers might find useful.

3

academy.openai.com

ChatGPT for product

A prompt pack covering competitive research, strategy, UX design, content creation, and data analysis.

4

center.design

Case study: Swimclub

When it comes to fertility, men’s health is half of the equation. However, fertility is perceived to be predominantly a woman’s issue.

5

antropia.studio

To AI or not to AI

A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring both the promise and frustrations of LLM-based development workflows.

Tuesday09/30

1

figma.com

Why you should care about design context

By thoughtfully organizing your work, you can help your developer counterparts build more efficiently and accurately.

2

daybreak.studio

A new (or rather, old) approach to typography on the web

Typography serves language, not the convenience of a system.

3

agenticcommerce.dev

Agentic commerce protocol

An open standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses. Developed by Stripe + OpenAI.

4

chaoticgood.management

How to be a leader when the vibes are off

Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. How to keep morale up?

5

rosipov.com

Brainstorming terrible ideas in a group

When brainstorming in a group participants are often worried about appearing like idiots, or having bad ideas.

Monday09/29

1

bit.ly

The missing link to make your Design Systems shineSponsored

The only design platform with native Design Tokens just got even stronger: Penpot now adds Variants to help you manage your design systems.

2

seangoedecke.com

What is “good taste” in software engineering?

Technical taste is different from technical skill.

3

elgoog.im

elgooG: the long lost Google easter eggs

We restore, unearth, and occasionally create interactive Google Easter eggs.

4

alistapart.com

Embracing design dialects

How design systems can evolve into living languages, embracing dialects for flexibility and improved user experiences.

5

css-tricks.com

Recreating Google Gemini's animation

Recreating the fancy button using the new CSS shape() function sprinkled with animation to get things pretty close.

Friday09/26

1

uxdesign.cc

Your next design might be your last

What Randy Pausch’s last lecture teaches us about designing with urgency and purpose.

2

volumecolor.io

Volume: a 3D OKLCH color palette creator

Build harmonious palettes in a 3D OKLCH space. Explore, create and save harmonious palettes.

3

sharif.io

The 28 AI tools I wish existed

The models are powerful as is. But where are the tools?

4

brutalita.com

Brutalita Sans

Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.

5

staticmade.com

Turn off the internet

Unfortunately nothing keeps people engaged quite like rage.

Thursday09/25

1

cate.blog

Getting more strategic

How to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic. Two different things.

2

pessimistsarchive.org

Pessimists archive

An archive of historical technological pessimism.

3

medium.com

Designing loops, not paths

How cybernetic loops are helping us turn “human in the loop” from a catchphrase into a design practice.

4

inimigosdopovo.com

Enemies of the people

The members of Brazilian congress who voted to achieve self-immunity; this side project reminds electors not to vote on them in the next elections.

5

osmarks.net

AI companion futures

How chatbots will likely develop as general life advisers.

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