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The five best design links, every weekday

Friday10/17

1

uxdesign.cc

Management values I didn’t expect to learn

Why design management is harder (and better) than we think.

2

design.dev

Neumorphism generator

Generate box-shadow, border-radius, and background code for neumorphic designs.

3

yusufaytas.com

Most of what we call progress

Reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.

4

studio-kiln.com

Case study: Fellowkids

Defining a brand that doesn’t just speak to fans but behaves like one: emotional, expressive and ever-evolving.

5

calv.info

You still need to think

With AI, someone still has to direct the work—set goals, choose constraints, and judge outputs.

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Thursday10/16

1

stavros.io

Why is everything so scalable?

We’ve been in “FAANG architecture by default” hell for a while now.

2

sizematters.netlify.app

Fluid type scale generator

Generate responsive type scales with CSS clamp() values—fluid typography that scales beautifully across all devices.

3

rosswintle.uk

Software can be finished

You probably don’t want to build “finished software”. But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?

4

accent-explorer.boldvoice.com

How AI hears accents

How models cluster accents, dialects, native languages, and language families—all in a 3D latent visualization.

5

spotifyapi.report

State of Spotify web API report 2025

Understanding Spotify’s new API restrictions and finding practical alternatives.

Wednesday10/15

1

uxdesign.cc

The “£532,000” dot job

Why did a tiny logo change cost GOV.UK so much?

2

inclusivedesignprinciples.info

Inclusive design principles

Designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really.

3

phirephoenix.com

Choosing friction

Convenience is all destination and no journey.

4

matthiasott.com

Compressed fluid typography

Giving up control over how large your typography is on a particular screen.

5

sebastiano.tronto.net

When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”

Maybe Microsoft and Google got this wrong. But that seems unlikely.

Tuesday10/14

1

uxdesign.cc

AI interfaces and the role of good writing

Why clear, strategic writing is more critical than ever.

2

pentagram.com

A data love letter to the Subway

A data-driven animation for Fulton Center commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for its 40th anniversary.

3

interconnected.org

Cyborgs vs rooms: two visions for the future of computing

Loosely there are two visions for the future of how we interact with computers.

4

a11y-collective.com

When to use Modal vs Dialog components

Implementation patterns, accessibility guidelines, and best practices for creating user-friendly interfaces.

5

renderghost.leaflet.pub

The worst designer I’ve ever worked with was also the most productive

When companies mistake volume for value, and incentivize outputs over outcomes.

Monday10/13

1

dvtl.link

Dovetail has redefined how product teams act on customer feedbackSponsored

Their new customer intelligence platform connects feedback, design, and development, so you can turn signals into shipped products.

2

suffsyed.com

Designers have to move from the surface to the substrate

Designers once controlled 85% of UX through UI and interactions. Now, with intelligence moving beneath the surface, that control has collapsed to 5%.

3

spaceexplorationlogoarchive.webflow.io

Space exploration logo archive

More than 80 years of works and includes the most iconic and noteworthy logos related to the world of Space Exploration.

4

nngroup.com

Stop misrecruits: Add foils to your screener

Foils are fake (but plausible) options in screeners that catch inattentive or dishonest participants, protecting data quality and saving time.

5

piccalil.li

A guide to creating accessible PDFs

Make PDFs accessible without having to fork out for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Friday10/10

1

doc.cc

The UX butterfly effect

Understanding unintended consequences in design and how to plan for them.

2

theoatmeal.com

A cartoonist’s review of AI art

This is a comic about AI art. A pretty honest one.

3

hojberg.xyz

The programmer identity crisis

On AI, creativity, and craft.

4

figma.com

6 winning Figma Makes and what you can learn from them

This year’s Make-a-thon winners offer insights on how to prototype smarter, structure products better, and push Figma Make further.

5

herbertlui.net

Craft, not fame, makes your story worth telling

The possibility is there, if you’re willing to put in the effort.

Thursday10/09

1

mechanicalsurvival.com

Team dynamics after AI

So much of the discourse around AI assumes an inevitability to adoption, seeing quality as the only barrier to that.

2

pauladamsmith.com

Classic 8×8-pixel Mac patterns

The original 8×8-pixel patterns that were in the original Control Panel for setting the desktop background and in MacPaint as fill patterns.

3

bharath.sh

Vercel vs Cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developers

Neutral observations on the Vercel vs Cloudflare race to win the edge and developer mindshare.

4

itsnicethat.com

It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch 2025

A curated list of next generation creative talent from across the globe.

5

nav.al

Complex systems emerge from iterations on simple designs

Whenever you find a complex system working in nature, it’s usually the output of a very simple system or thing that was iterated over and over.

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