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designsurface.dev

Cascade: icons for CSS properties

An open-source icon set where every icon represents a CSS property–value pair. Copy as SVG or React component.

smashingmagazine.com

Modal vs. separate page: UX decision tree

How to choose between modals and pages, when to avoid modals, and how to determine the right level of interruption or navigation.

bit.ly

What design education doesn’t prepare us forSponsored

Reflections from Stefan Sagmeister, Liza Enebeis, Erik Kessels, and 10 more creatives—in the new editorial UNLEARNED by Readymag.

commoncog.com

How to make sense of AI

Keeping up with a fast changing, revolutionary technology can seem scary. Here are some ruthless guidelines to make sense of it effectively.

courses.designisaparty.com

Elizabeth’s declassified guide to product design

A rare, honest roadmap through the industry’s noise.

skills.sh

The Agent Skills Directory

Discover and install skills for AI agents.

terminaltrove.com

Terminal Trove

A comprehensive collection of terminal tools with advanced search and filters.

conor.fyi

Anatomy of a CSS phone mockup

A step-by-step walkthrough of how a realistic iPhone frame is built from scratch.

allsvgicons.com

All SVG Icons

Browse and download 250,000+ free SVG icons for your projects that are free to use and customizable.

library.obys.agency

Obys’ Design Books

A personal selection of titles that show design in ways the screen never could.

dropleaf.app

AI Taxonomy

When someone says "AI", ask: "Which category?" Force specificity.

tylercoderre.com

Design systems checklist

A step-by-step checklist for building design systems.

amplifying.ai

What Claude Code actually chooses

Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.

itsnicethat.com

Who owns this book?

The guide for every designer’s worst nightmare: copyright.

anthropic.skilljar.com

Anthropic courses

Anthropic’s new Academy transitions from tool-specific tutorials to a mental model of AI fluency.

3dicons.co

Open-source 3D icons

1440+ beautifully crafted open-source 3D icons that you can use completely free and without attribution for personal or commercial project.

sweetfont.com

Sweetfont

Explore Google Fonts by personality, vibe, and style using interactive controls.

remixicon.com

Remix Icon

A set of open source neutral style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers and developers.

uxdesign.cc

The new UX Toolkit: data, context, and evals

Designing how models behave.

css-tricks.com

Trying to make the perfect pie chart in CSS

Can we make pie chart that’s semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library?