The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2025/03/04

sesame.com

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

“Voice presence” is the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued. Check out the voice demos.

figma.com

Figma plugin: Visual Electric

Every designer's favorite Image Gen tool is now available as a Figma plugin.

penpot.app

Accessible design checklist

Improve your design’s accessibility with this quick reference checklist and Penpot plugin.

dri.es

Comparing local LLMs for alt-text generation

I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.

danieldelaney.net

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build. Right?