The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday03/14

1

jsoncanvas.org

JSON Canvas

An open file format for infinite canvas data.

2

printmag.com

The Curious Case of Cursive

Chloe Gordon looks at the evolution of cursive in society and design.

3

medium.com

Inclusive Design’s next wave breaks for mental health

Our toolkit for designing with cognitive diversity extends into wellbeing.

4

vimeo.com

Museum-Worthy

It’s Hard to make museum-worthy art. It’s harder to make museum-worthy ads.

5

bradfrost.com

What's Next for a Global Design System

A Global Design System would improve the quality and accessibility of the world’s web experiences.

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Wednesday03/13

1

chicagomag.com

Preserving the City Through Typography

A Portage Park illustrator saves Chicago’s past one letter at a time.

2

trangram.com

Trangram

Trangram is a free one-stop platform to create, animate and share motion graphics.

3

gradientor.app

Gradientor

A minimalist, beautiful Radial Background Generator

4

nytimes.com

The Designer Who Makes Movie Posters Worthy of Museums

You’ve seen Dawn Baillie’s posters for thrillers, comedies and dramas outside cineplexes.

5

dwell.com

The Great Toilet Rebrand

After decades of being treated like something that’s better left unnoticed, designers are making toilets fun again.

Tuesday03/12

1

figma.com

How AI will influence creative tools

Replit’s VP of Marketing and Design David Hoang talks about how AI is reshaping the future of product design and development.

2

pudding.cool

What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time?

Examining 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” Rankings

3

linear.app

Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product

Today’s startup MVP is about iterating early to build the highest quality competitor to an existing idea, not validating a novel one.

4

danmall.com

Spine

A story of when I walked away from a good project.

5

404s.design

404s — gallery of error 404 page designs

404 pages, where joy and errors meet. A growing gallery of 404 page designs from around the internet.

Monday03/11

1

web.dev

New to the web platform in February

Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during February 2024.

2

downpour.games

Downpour

Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them into an interactive story.

3

kyleshevlin.com

No Outer Margin

It is an anti-pattern to add margin to the outermost element of a component.

4

metalab.com

Metalab: We make interfaces

A new portfolio site for Metalab.

5

adrianroselli.com

Jakob Has Jumped the Shark

The saga of Jakob Nielsen.

Friday03/08

1

adrianroselli.com

Techniques to Break Words

A few days ago Benjy Stanton asked about breaking long words in tables.

2

frontendmasters.com

Menus, toasts and more with the Popover API

Dropdowns, menus, tooltips, comboboxes, toasts — the popover attribute will make building a large variety of UI components easier.

3

stamen.com

Designing for all audiences: Mapping the future of food

What happens when weather events become the norm?

4

smashingmagazine.com

Modern CSS Tooltips And Speech Bubbles (Part 2)

Temani Afif explores different CSS techniques to create tooltip shapes.

5

clagnut.com

Retrofitting fluid typography

As part of my forthcoming Patterns Day talk I decided to rebuild the newly redesigned Creative Boom article page using Utopian fluid typography.

Thursday03/07

1

figma.com

Behind the Feature: The Multiple Lives of Multi-Edit

Every now and again, we ship a feature that makes us wonder how we ever got along without it.

2

itsnicethat.com

POV: Is it the designer’s responsibility if an app is addictive?

Habit-forming features on social media apps are sparking class-action lawsuits. But does moral responsibility lie with product designers?

3

daverupert.com

A dozen thoughts about AI

AI. It’s the talk of the town (or at least this year, that is). I’ve been in dozens of conversations about AI in recent days.

4

ralphammer.com

Aristotle — How to live a good life

2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life.

5

canva.dev

Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem

CVEs in three strange places and the unique problem of safely processing and handling fonts.

Wednesday03/06

1

html5accessibility.com

Accessibility Darkness

Took a journey into the heart of the #a11y industrial complex last night while browsing the interwebs on my phone.

2

buttondown.email

We need to talk about Jakob

Jakob Nielsen woke up one morning last week and chose violence.

3

smashingmagazine.com

The End Of My Gatsby Journey

Juan Diego Rodríguez reflects on his decision to stop using Gatsby as his go-to framework.

4

arun.is

Inside arun.is · Camera Illustrations

A behind-the-scenes look into the camera illustrations I use at the end of my photoessays.

5

matejlatin.com

90% of designers are unhirable?

Or why your cookie-cutter portfolio doesn’t cut it and how to fix it

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