The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2026/08/14

blog.florianherrengt.com

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

The economic shift that values human architectural judgment over execution speed.

gooey.jakubantalik.com

Liquid Gooey

Liquid UI effects for React.

mattrothenberg.com

You don't have a design system

A classification that forces teams to document implementation logic for sustained product consistency.

stolen-thoughts.com

Stolen thoughts

Encrypted chain-of-thought blocks returned by Anthropic, OpenAI and Google APIs—we exploit this to decode hidden reasoning at scale.

yaronschoen.com

Claude Code 101, for designers

What Claude Code actually is, plus a plain-language decoder for the jargon around it. Models, tokens, agents, MCP, and friends.