The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2026/10/01

uxdesign.cc

The lie we keep telling ourselves about regulating AI

The excuse for not regulating AI is that nobody can agree how. The people who built the internet would find that laughable.

design.google

Google's 3D emoji design process

How Google brought 3,977 Noto emoji into 3D.

blog.murphytrueman.com

I can’t tell who’s teaching who anymore

On inheriting my mum’s sentences, and watching them read as a machine’s.

libraries.dev

Agent skill: Libraries.dev

Teach your coding agent Border beam, Thinking orbs, Gooey, Voice, Bot avatars, Liquid metal and Image.

2026.stateofdevs.com

State of Devs 2026

Nearly half of this year's survey respondents had experienced job insecurity and insufficient wages.