The five best design links, every weekday

Friday03/07

1

nngroup.com

Scope in gen AI features

Focused AI features lead to better user understanding and adoption.

2

designtokens.fyi

designtokens.fyi

Defining terms for design tokens.

3

jarango.com

AI and the power of small teams

Doing more with less isn’t just possible — it’s the future of work.

4

cursorful.com

Cursorful: screen recording app

A browser recorder that automatically adds zooms and pans.

5

longform.asmartbear.com

“I scratched my own itch” isn’t good enough

This isn’t the humble-brag you think it is; the most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it’s a start.

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Thursday03/06

1

uxdesign.cc

How I review design work

Good design can be tricky. What’s obvious to one person might not make sense to someone else.

2

cloudfour.com

Why I like designing in the browser

Most design tools only approximate how the end result will look and feel.

3

piccalil.li

In praise of off-screen menus

Challenging the idea of displaying your entire navigation as a cluster of links.

4

buck.co

Eventbrite rebrand

A new visual and verbal identity for Eventbrite's global events marketplace, by BUCK.

5

dayroselane.com

The hydrant directory

A public domain design resource created from public infrastructure.

Wednesday03/05

1

shadergpt.14islands.com

ShaderGPT

Build GLSL shaders with natural language.

2

404.computer

404 Magazine

A zine exploring the intersection of UX writing and poetry.

3

alexp.pl

Vibe coding

Seems like programmers are terrified, but not necessarily because of AI potentially taking our jobs.

4

pjonori.blog

The existential challenge of design system team morale

Design systems are hard. But guess what? So is every other discipline of design and engineering.

5

design.cash.app

Cash app brand guidelines

A brand that thrives on the tension between structuring order and explosive freedom.

Tuesday03/04

1

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.

2

figma.com

Figma plugin: Visual Electric

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

3

penpot.app

Accessible design checklist

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

4

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.

5

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?

Monday03/03

1

antmurphy.me

Product strategy should be messy

Coming up with a product strategy should be messy. It’s not some clean fill in the box activity.

2

figma.com

Figma plugin: EXAT pattern generator

Generate custom geometric abstract visuals inspired by mid-century Op Art.

3

youtube.com

Common dataviz accessibility issues

Through practical examples Sarah L. Fossheim explores where it typically goes wrong, why issues arise, and what we can learn from our past mistakes.

4

scottberkun.com

The real reasons bad design happens

No one intends to make bad things, yet we know how much of the world is not well designed.

5

newsletter.herbig.co

Why strategy needs more than workshops

Evidence-informed choices beat beautiful canvases. Here’s how to move from theater to real decisions.

Friday02/28

1

makingsoftware.co

Making software

A reference manual for people who design and build software.

2

figma.com

50k copyright free icons

An open-source set of 50k+ high-quality icons, containing Outline and Filled formats, editable and easy to insert in the Figma editor.

3

linear.app

The profitable startup

For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. But that thinking was always flawed.

4

serene.industries

The icebreaker keyboard

A superheavy 65% keyboard, made from a solid block of aluminum ft. fullmetal keycaps.

5

oklch.com

OKLCH color picker & converter

The new CSS Color 4 specification has added the new oklch() notation for declaring colors. This tools help with conversions.

Thursday02/27

1

theuncomfortable.com

The uncomfortable

A collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani.

2

anchor-tool.com

Anchor position tool

A tool for exploring the different values for positioning an element within a grid.

3

chrbutler.com

In defense of text labels

Interfaces are over-stuffed with icons. The more icons we have to scan over, the more brain power we put

4

jeromantik.de

Design tokens starter set

A comprehensive toolkit featuring 250+ pre-built tokens, variables, tokens studio-compatible JSON, easy WCAG 2.0 color contrasts and more.

5

intertwingled.org

Natural information architecture

On the neocortex, mental models, and tacit knowledge.

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