The five best design links, every weekday

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aresluna.org

Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you

On designing finger-friendly interactions.

tastelab.xyz

Taste: design DNA for AI agents

Abductive reasoning for design. Read any website’s taste: tokens + the decisions behind them. A Claude Code skill.

productdesignpsychology.com

Product Design Psychology

Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.

bit.ly

94% say research matters. Only 27% act on it. [Report]Sponsored

Inside — a survey of 309 researchers and leaders shows why insights struggle to shape decisions and how modern teams are closing that gap.

microsoft.design

Haptics design and implementation

Microsoft's guidance for adding haptic feedback to improve clarity, support inclusion, and create more intuitive experiences.

aaron-gustafson.com

Can your AI pass the accessibility test?

How large language models handle web accessibility standards. Or don't.

tonsky.me

Every frame perfect

How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product.

blog.murphytrueman.com

What Figma made visible

And whether the next generation of practitioners will get the same thing.

blog.damato.design

Lawful Design

The least fun but most required part of our work.

uxdesign.cc

The flaw is the feature

What is polish actually worth?

maeda.pm

For most of my career I designed the cockpit

The functional alignment between AI capabilities and human intent.

shrtcts.click

Know your shortcuts

An interactive 3D keyboard for learning the keyboard shortcuts of the apps you use every day.

boneyard.vercel.app

Boneyard: skeleton screens for your UI

Pixel-perfect skeleton loading screens auto-extracted from your real DOM. Zero configuration, zero layout shift.

antmurphy.me

Exploring vs Exploiting

The two modes of product discovery.

buzzusborne.com

Discovery vs Delivery

A personal perspective on AI, product quality and the growing divide between deciding what should exist and efficiently building it.

uxdesign.cc

Liquid Glass: who gets to decide how an interface looks?

Notes from the 2026 WWDC keynote.

aave.com

Building glass for the web

How we built a cross-browser glass effect for the web, and how it shapes a family of components.

slack.design

How I validated design decisions before writing production code

We can finally generate evidence before committing to anything.

nngroup.com

The four design jobs AI created (so far)

“AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work.

karlkoch.me

Falling in love with the build

Write-first design prevents falling in love with the wrong thing by prioritizing reasoning over implementation.