The five best design links, every weekday

Monday04/20

1

bit.ly

We built a banking app prototype with zero codeSponsored

Login, balance transfers, camera scanning—all built in ProtoPie. Explore the live demo, then see the 4-part breakdown.

2

medium.com

What Claude Design actually changes for designers

The handoff problem is finally getting solved—and it’s happening faster than most of us expected.

3

charcuterie.elastiq.ch

Charcuteria

A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters, discover related glyphs, and explore scripts, symbols, and shapes across the standard.

4

rajnandan.com

Good taste the only real moat left

The real edge comes from pairing judgment with context, stakes, and the willingness to build.

5

chrbutler.com

Red-lining AI

Blanket AI bans mistake the tool for the problem, Thoughtful integration of automation, ethics, and creative work offers a better path forward.

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Friday04/17

1

uxdesign.cc

We become what we behold

A discussion of AI + Design and our shifting roles.

2

webaim.org

The WebAIM Million

The 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages.

3

marginalia.nu

AI makes you boring

Prompting an AI model is not articulating an idea. You get the output, but in terms of ideation the output is discardable.

4

smashingmagazine.com

How to improve UX in legacy systems

Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes.

5

daverupert.com

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. When speed is the priority, there’s no incentive to improve or invest in the shared system.

Thursday04/16

1

maggieappleton.com

One developer, two dozen agents, zero alignment

Why we need collaborative AI engineering.

2

font-stealer.vercel.app

Analyze any font

Extract and analyze fonts from any website instantly.

3

reuters.com

How California fights fires from the skies

High-stakes data visualization saves lives. This breakdown shows how clear mapping helps people navigate chaos.

4

davidmello.com

Playwright accessibility testing

Axe and Lighthouse miss 60–70% of WCAG violations. Learn the limitations of automated accessibility testing and how to write smarter Playwright tests.

5

lukew.com

The new designer/developer collaboration

A collaboration model that shined a light on how things could (no, should) be.

Wednesday04/15

1

matthiasott.com

Design and engineering, as one

Most of us are still running product teams on a model that was designed for a problem we don’t have.

2

awwwards.com

Case study: 100 Lost Species

A digital story about extinction that people could actively explore.

3

acolorbright.com

Aesthetics of AI

Observations on the visual identities of standout AI brands and the trends shaping them.

4

robonomics.substack.com

Org design in the age of AI

Everyone is adding AI to their workflows. Almost no one is rethinking why the workflow is shaped that way in the first place.

5

aestheticamagazine.com

The endurance of brutalism

This new exhibition spotlights Scotland’s post-war modernist architecture, selected from Phipps’ photographs of 160 buildings across the country.

Tuesday04/14

1

joshwcomeau.com

Squash and stretch

Using Disney's animation principles to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable.

2

trainjazz.com

Every train, a note

A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

3

theyseeyourphotos.com

They see your photos

Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees. Spoiler alert: more than you think.

4

nngroup.com

Handmade designs: the new trust signal

In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.

5

factory.ai

How missions work

Agent sessions work well for focused tasks, but most real projects are too broad and complex for a single context window.

Monday04/13

1

bit.ly

html.to.design — chrome extensionSponsored

Browse any website. Capture the full page or just a section, and send it straight to Figma. Re-capture anytime.

2

informationisbeautiful.net

Visualizing Billions

Some gargantuan numbers often make little sense unless put in context and comparison with other billions.

3

maxvanijsselmuiden.nl

Productive procrastination

Understanding why we avoid the work we actually love might be the key to getting more of it done.

4

visiteamazonia.com.br

Branding Amazonia

9 states. 772 cities. 28 million inhabitants. Among us, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet.

5

perevillega.com

Building agent memory that survives between sessions

Two practical approaches to the same insight: memory is a design problem, not a tooling problem.

Friday04/10

1

anildash.com

Actually, people love to work hard

When effort stems from purpose, agency, and trust, rather than oversight.

2

printmag.com

James Junk is the voice design needs now

Redefining what it means to be a creative in the age of the algorithm.

3

titlescream.cameronaskin.com

Title Scream

Type + Graphic inspiration from 8/16bit games.

4

martinfowler.com

Principles of mechanical sympathy

Memory access patterns, false sharing, the single-writer principle, and natural batching.

5

mitchellh.com

The building block economy

How "building blocks" thrive by letting AI and niche users handle the customization.

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