The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2026/07/21

hermit-tech.com

AI mania is eviscerating global decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

doc.cc

Five to Nine: a photographic series

This series slips into the hours after the badge comes off—the unbranded life where designers become someone the job never meets.

replit.com

The self-driving company

We are beginning to see what happens when a company learns to operate itself.

loading-ui.com

Loading UI

Free and open source CSS and React loaders, spinners, and animations to create polished, accessible loading states for modern web apps.

itsnicethat.com

Are we stuck in the typographic principles of the 20th century?

A manual for the most unstable art: type design.