The five best design links, every weekday

Monday08/17

1

bit.ly

Take your meeting context to new placesSponsored

Granola's new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration connects your meeting notes to your AI app of choice.

2

superposition.jem.computer

Design is how it tastes

If our design specs only tell models what the interface is made of, they have already forgotten what the interface is for

3

eigendrum.com

Eigendrum

Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled.

4

buttondown.com

Accessibility getting dropped in the process

When accessible designs become inaccessible products.

5

minoradventures.co

The making of Cursor’s icons

A year of drawing, testing, and shipping a complete icon system for the world’s favourite coding agent.

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Friday08/14

1

blog.florianherrengt.com

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

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

2

gooey.jakubantalik.com

Liquid Gooey

Liquid UI effects for React.

3

mattrothenberg.com

You don't have a design system

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

4

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.

5

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.

Thursday08/13

1

noemamag.com

Why is everyone in tech so sad?

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless.

2

kuber.studio

I didn’t set a cookie

Everything this page knows about you, it learned in under two seconds. Without a cookie, a permission prompt, or a click.

3

lethain.com

Middle management roles are also a trap

Most middle management roles make practicing executive skills difficult, and sometimes negatively select against developing them.

4

backyarddesigners.club

Backyard designers

Draft seven real designers as chunky cartoon kids, stay under the follower-count salary cap, then post your lineup.

5

imkylelambert.com

Everyone is designing with AI, not for it

We focus on how people are designing and building with AI. I rarely read about how AI is changing “what” people are designing and building.

Wednesday08/12

1

blog.mozilla.org

Let your designs fail for the right reasons

How AI-assisted native prototypes changed what usability testing could show.

2

state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app

State of AI in Design Systems

A field study of how 20 open-source design systems and 6 platforms make themselves readable to AI agents.

3

beautifului.dev

Beautiful UI

A small library of extremely crafted, copy-paste components for chat agents, thinking states, human-in-the-loop approvals, and everything agents need.

4

taylor.town

I’m leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

Gonna send you back to the stone age.

5

2026.stateofcss.com

State of CSS 2026

The results are in. Developer adoption across modern CSS features—empirical data on layout practices and usage.

Tuesday08/11

1

uxdesign.cc

Bottle your judgment and make it outlive you

The most valuable thing you own dies with you, unless you get it out of your head. Let a machine and the person next to you finally use it.

2

thehtml.review

The HTML review 05

An annual journal of literature made to exist on the web.

3

blog.senko.net

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. And there's a gross insult to all programmers everywhere.

4

aipotluck.org

AI Potluck

Mapping the open source AI stack to understand what’s missing. Now, together, we can close them.

5

martin.janiczek.cz

Systems and delays

Where delays are shown to be counterintuitive.

Monday08/10

1

bit.ly

The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetingsSponsored

The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings. Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot.

2

notashelf.dev

Taste is all that's left

How automated output turns taste into the primary filter for software and product design.

3

agent-plugins.org

Agent plugins

A portable package format for reusable components that extend AI agents.

4

jarango.com

What’s the purpose of information architecture?

Fifty years after its formal introduction, the discipline of IA is still widely misunderstood. Here‘s a corrective.

5

joost.blog

The future of the website

Websites aren’t dying, but their job is changing: agent-readable surfaces, MCP servers, and verifiable authenticity.

Friday08/07

1

hvpandya.com

The hierarchy of competence

Nine stages of how people operate at work, in strict order, where each one is measured by a job it removes from your manager.

2

crashcat.dev

Crashcat

A 3D rigid body physics engine for JavaScript, designed for games and simulations.

3

microsoft.design

What happens when you can’t hide behind craft

In an era where AI has made execution nearly free, the designer’s true value no longer lies in craft alone but in having a genuine point of view.

4

headlines.games

Headlines Game

Guess the year. 5 real headlines a day.

5

nicolo.xyz

Something is changing in the unit economics of software

Why AI is compressing software margins, and what that does to the SaaS playbook.

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