The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2025/10/09

mechanicalsurvival.com

Team dynamics after AI

So much of the discourse around AI assumes an inevitability to adoption, seeing quality as the only barrier to that.

pauladamsmith.com

Classic 8×8-pixel Mac patterns

The original 8×8-pixel patterns that were in the original Control Panel for setting the desktop background and in MacPaint as fill patterns.

bharath.sh

Vercel vs Cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developers

Neutral observations on the Vercel vs Cloudflare race to win the edge and developer mindshare.

itsnicethat.com

It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch 2025

A curated list of next generation creative talent from across the globe.

nav.al

Complex systems emerge from iterations on simple designs

Whenever you find a complex system working in nature, it’s usually the output of a very simple system or thing that was iterated over and over.