The five best design links, every weekday

Wednesday11/20

1

pentagram.com

Guggenheim rebrand

Visual identity for the constellation of global art museums.

2

pictographic.io

Pictographic

The illustration dictionary for design.

3

zarar.dev

Good software development habits

Writing down what's working for me helps me maintain any good habits I've worked hard to develop.

4

arp242.net

Against best practices

I have come to believe that by and large “best practices” are doing more harm than good.

5

uxdesign.cc

AI + Hermes (speed) worship

Tech’s obsession with speed and how it has the potential to strip quality and craft in Design.

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Tuesday11/19

1

playbook.ebay.com

eBay Playbook

eBay Evo is our brand and design system, created so we show up consistently all around the world with the flexibility to strengthen local relevance.

2

anderegg.ca

Maybe Bluesky has “won”

One upside of all this terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky.

3

behavioralscientist.org

Instead of being cynical, try becoming skeptical

Cynicism and skepticism are often confused for each other, but they couldn’t be more different.

4

medium.com

Why do we need a design system?

Having the GOV.UK Design System negates the need for any other UK Government design systems. Or does it?

5

x.com

Designing an agent that designs

Transcript of a talk I gave last week, on turning our AI coding agent into a designer.

Monday11/18

1

khoslaventures.com

How to hire

Identifying whether a role is for value creation or protection should be the first fulcrum upon which the remainder of your process rests.

2

carly.substack.com

Who will train tomorrow’s designers?

On mentorship, AI, and the uncertain future of entry-level design roles.

3

neurodiversity.design

Neurodiversity design system

The NDS is a coherent set of standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and user experience design for Learning Management Systems.

4

recraft.ai

Recraft: an infinite AI artboard

Premium image generation and editing tool. Store and share your own styles, create, fine-tune, upscale, and perfect your visuals.

5

chrbutler.com

Know what you need

Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier.

Friday11/15

1

github.com

Sunlight streaming in through the window (in CSS)

A pure css implementation of some sunlight streaming in through the window - jackyzha0/sunlit

2

paul.kinlan.me

Will we care about frameworks in the future?

Paul is a Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google and loves to help make web development easier.

3

mtlynch.io

Lessons from my first exit

My takeaways from selling TinyPilot.

4

motion.dev

Framer Motion is now independent, introducing Motion

Framer Motion is now independent. Introducing Motion, a new animation library for React and all JavaScript environments.

5

ben-mini.github.io

IMG_0416

Between 2009-2012, iPhones included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app.

Thursday11/14

1

uxdesign.cc

Why is the Mac mini power button on the bottom?

Design flaw or intentional choice?

2

seangoedecke.com

How I ship projects at big tech companies

What I think about when I’m lead engineer on a project.

3

tympanus.net

Recreating the Mac Mini effect in Rive

How to bring the Mac Mini animation to life using Rive’s powerful no-code tools, with tips on nested artboards, state machines, and faux 3D effects.

4

designweek.co.uk

New book celebrates UK’s influential modernist graphic designers

A new book promises to “right a historic wrong” by highlighting the work, and enduring influence, of some of the UK’s modernist graphic designers.

5

figma.com

Updating Figma's web system for a new era

An inside look at how we leveraged Figma’s features to reimagine our web design system.

Wednesday11/13

1

rafaelquintanilha.com

Are AI assistants making us worse programmers?

Perspectives on the rise of AI in programming and its effects on productivity.

2

next.skeleton.dev

Skeleton Design System

An adaptive design system for extending Tailwind.

3

catherineshannon.substack.com

Everyone is numbing out

The dark side of ironic detachment and possible antidotes for our apathetic world.

4

feltpresence.com

We did all this discovery... now how do we decide?

The ideas, the interviews, the stories, the pain points — they all start to pile up. That’s where the problem comes in.

5

ishadeed.com

Overflow Clip

Learn how overflow: clip works in CSS.

Tuesday11/12

1

icons.pqoqubbw.dev

Pqoqubbw icons

Beautifully crafted animated icons.

2

basbroek.nl

Making accessibility accessible

Recently I spoke about “making accessibility accessible”. What does it mean, and how can we accomplish this?

3

nemutas.github.io

Cloth simulator

A Vite + Ts experiment.

4

kyleshevlin.com

What ADHD feels like to me

While we have made great progress in understanding ADHD, it can still be difficult for some to grasp the impact it has on those who struggle with it.

5

adamsilver.io

Should destructive buttons be hard to find?

Don’t make it hard for users to find the “remove” link.

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