The five best design links, every weekday

Friday12/20

1

vercel.com

The rise of the AI crawler

How ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI crawlers process web content, including JavaScript rendering, assets, and other behavior and patterns.

2

frontendmasters.com

Responsive tables & readable paragraphs

You can make a table responsive by letting it horizontally scroll. But if you do that, make sure paragraph style isn’t any wider than the screen.

3

designlobster.substack.com

Shibui design

The unexpected richness of simplicity.

4

bostonreview.net

The AI we deserve

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

5

designweek.co.uk

Ten takes: what is the best design of 2024?

From a theatre rebrand to a luxury space suit, ten designers pick their favourite work of the past 12 months.

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Thursday12/19

1

blog.google

Whisk: remix ideas using images and AI

Whisk is a new Google Labs experiment that lets you prompt using images for a fast and fun creative process.

2

erikgahner.dk

AI will be dead in five years

There is this joke that people do statistics in R, machine learning in Python, and AI in PowerPoint. (I did not say it is a funny joke.)

3

medium.com

2024 Smith & Diction year in review

It started off slow. Like…..I guess the robot uprising is here, kind of slow. And honestly, it shook us quite a bit.

4

chrome.dev

CSS wrapped 2024

Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome and the web platform in 2024.

5

martinfowler.com

Design token-based UI architecture

Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation.

Wednesday12/18

1

shiftmag.dev

Pushing developers to start their engine vs pushing them off a cliff

How do you determine whether to motivate your colleague towards progress or to respect their autonomy?

2

dive.club

UI Patterns for generative AI

Types of UI that will be relevant moving forward.

3

jarango.com

The resurgence of plain text in the age of AI

Reflections on the advantages of plain text and why it matters when working with LLMs.

4

figma.com

27 Figjam activities

Looking for ways to shake up your teaching? These collaborative templates help students connect, create, and learn together.

5

isometricshot.com

IsometricShot

Create beautiful isometric screenshots of your designs.

Tuesday12/17

1

informationisbeautiful.net

Per second vibrations

Distilling the world’s data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations.

2

x.com

Organizing Figma files

Since @raphaelschaad's talk at Config, I've been using this matrix to organize my Figma files, and I honestly won't go back to anything else.

3

onemillionscreenshots.com

One million screenshots

Explore the web’s biggest homepage. Discover similar sites. See changes over time. Get web data.

4

figma.com

Free presentation templates for Figma Slides

Deliver polished, engaging presentations with these presentation templates in Figma Slides.

5

sourcegraph.com

The death of the stubborn developer

How stubborn developers are getting left behind by refusing to adopt chat-oriented programming (CHOP) as their primary development approach.

Monday12/16

1

seangoedecke.com

I don’t know how to build software and you don’t either

Overconfidence about the big questions in software engineering.

2

creativebloq.com

The best subtitle fonts for accessibility

Accessibility experts, subtitlers and media companies share which accessible fonts you should use for subtitling work.

3

allthingsdistributed.com

Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond

We’ve entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements.

4

hudsandguis.com

Mission Impossible: HUDS+GUIS

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning revolves around artificial intelligence, which seems to be a common theme lately.

5

thingelstad.com

Ethical web principles

These principles are not merely theoretical; they constitute a call to action.

Friday12/13

1

adobe.design

The path to design principal

The skills that can elevate your design career and your influence as an individual contributor

2

restofworld.org

How WhatsApp ate the world

WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more.

3

asteriskmag.com

The depths of Wikipedians

A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.

4

imkylelambert.com

Getting buy-in for design-led projects

As designers, we excel at crafting concepts and telling compelling stories. But it can be deeply frustrating when our ideas rarely gain traction.

5

youtube.com

Google: year in search 2024

From iconic performances, to history-making breakthroughs, see the moments that shaped our year in ways we didn't see coming.

Thursday12/12

1

errorprone.info

How to think about time

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. —Ray Cummings

2

sibervepunk.com

Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job

Know thyself.

3

smashingmagazine.com

Graceful degradation in accessible design

Few things are as frustrating to a user as when a site won’t respond. Unfortunately, it’s also an all-too-common scenario.

4

nytimes.com

Is creativity dead?

Or is the algorithm just hiding it from you?

5

fonts.google.com

History of Latin type

The rich history of type design and the technical evolution of typesetting are woven into our everyday practice of typography.

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