The five best design links, every weekday

Wednesday10/04

1

medium.com

Living Color: Designing through synesthesia

How a design director’s experience with synesthesia influenced her learning in design.

2

theverge.com

OpenAI releases third version of DALL-E

OpenAI integrated DALL-E 3 with ChatGPT.

3

logodesignlove.com

Logo Rewind

Logo Rewind is a book by Darren Leader that focuses on the visual language of Medieval design.

4

uxdesign.cc

How to design climate-friendly emails

Best practices for sustainable email design.

5

tympanus.net

Animating Multi-Page Navigations

A beginner-friendly guide that walks you through the use of the Browser View Transitions API with Astro for a smoother navigation experience.

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Tuesday10/03

1

uxdesign.cc

The constant tension between design tools and soft skills

As a designer, we’re constantly pulled in two directions: towards learning new design tools and towards honing our soft skills.

2

thisiscolossal.com

Unfolded Origami Works by Sipho Mabona Reflect on Inevitable Transformations

In Transcending the Garden, Sipho Mabona pushes the boundaries of origami through large-scale folds.

3

medium.com

Tabletop RPGs Have a Design Debt to Pay

How bad design haunts us.

4

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Making a Website is for Everyone

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

5

uxdesign.cc

How a font website dishonestly earns money

Fontesk’s deceptive font distribution practices, and how type designers can safeguard their typographic creations from exploitation.

Monday10/02

1

sillycovalley.com

Silly Co Valley

A fast-paced startup simulation game where you play the founder of a tech startup.

2

bleech.de

The ups and downs of text-wrap: balance and a polyfill

text-wrap: balance elevates responsive design by auto-balancing text lines

3

classnames.paulrobertlloyd.com

Naming things needn’t be hard

Find inspiration for naming things – be that HTML classes, CSS properties or JavaScript functions – using these lists of useful words.

4

c82.net

Humming-Birds

Digital edition of John Gould’s monumental work depicting all known species between 1849 and 1887.

5

journal.everypixel.com

How to Spot AI-Generated Images

Learn how to spot AI-generated images with expert tips. Detect visual defects, textual clues, and more to distinguish artificial content.

Friday09/29

1

fffuel.co

Collection of Grungy Textures

Genuine high-res textures from aged walls and grounds to use as authentic grunge, vintage overlays on images.

2

medium.com

Design System Challenge: Rebranding 100+ touchpoints in under 9 months.

In today’s hyperconnected world it is critical for a brand to be extremely flexible but recognizable.

3

uxdesign.cc

How to create a color ramp used in design systems

A color ramp, also known as a color scale, is a visual representation of how colors transition from light to dark in a smooth and continuous manner.

4

google.com

Google’s 25th Birthday

Let’s take a walk down memory lane to learn how we were born 25 years ago...

5

blogs.microsoft.com

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion

We are entering a new era of AI, one that is fundamentally changing how we relate to and benefit from technology.

Thursday09/28

1

amitmerchant.com

Textareas with auto-increasing height using CSS

Textareas areas are great when it comes to accepting a large amount of text from the user.

2

developer.chrome.com

From WebGL to WebGPU

Learn some tips for WebGL developers who are migrating to WebGPU.

3

apple.com

macOS Sonoma is available today

macOS Sonoma is now available as a free software update.

4

pudding.cool

24 hours in an invisible epidemic

Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight

5

theturnsignalblog.com

A Guide to Prototyping Automotive Interfaces

Good design is not a function of talent, but number of iterations. Here’s my guide to prototyping automotive interfaces.

Wednesday09/27

1

arstechnica.com

Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result

Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.

2

uxdesign.cc

How to write for Gen Z without being cringe?

How do you do, fellow kids?

3

kottke.org

The Plot of All Objects in the Universe

You just have to admire a chart that casually purports to show every single thing in the Universe in one simple 2D plot.

4

brilliant.org

Halfsies: A Game of Shapes & Strategies

Can you make the cut? Test your sharpness and compete with your friends at Halfsies, a new game from Brilliant.

5

briefs.video

What Are Accessibility Overlays?

All accessibility overlays are bad. Except the ones by overlay vendors planning to sue me.

Tuesday09/26

1

medium.com

The case for AI hallucination

Midjourney or DALL-E can generate anything, so why should they produce photorealistic images by default?

2

tobiasahlin.com

Responsive type scales with composable CSS utilities

With the help of calc(), clamp() and CSS vars, we can create composable, responsive, and fluid type scales.

3

betterwebtype.com

8 more micro tips for remarkably better typography

More micro tips in less than 8 minutes to make your typography stand out in excellence.

4

ishadeed.com

CSS Findings From The Threads App: Part 2

A few interesting CSS findings from the threads app by Meta.

5

themarkup.org

Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself

Loading links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack takes far longer than to other sites.

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