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  • Design systems are over. Product context is the work by Robin Cannon

    AI doesn't effectively recognize and implement components in isolation. What AI consumes - and amplifies - is context.

  • Prototype the path by Ethan Eismann

    A prototype without a question becomes a demo. Demos can inspire, but they don't always teach.

  • The speed of prototyping in the age of AI by Daryl Cecile

    The thing nobody really warned me about is how much AI changes the shape of engineering work, not just the speed of it.

  • heerich.js by David Aerne

    heerich.js is a minimalist JavaScript engine that constructs 3D voxel compositions and distills them into pristine SVG.

Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.

  • Daily Designer by Arun Venkatesan

    Every day, I’ll post a thought-provoking quote from a designer I admire.

  • Loop engineering by Addy Osmani

    Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead.

  • Check designs in Figma by Figma

    Check designs compares your designs against your design system, flags what's off, and suggests the correct fix in one click.

  • The old typography is new again by Elliot Jay Stocks

    Good typography rarely announces itself, and optical sizing is a practice where a craft older than the printing press meets the most modern tooling we have.

  • The geometry of luck by Soleio Cuervo

    Soleio reframes luck as a measurable structure with three facets — orientation, surface area, and novel action. The closing talk from Tokyo Design Forum 2026.

  • Coding is designing by Jim Nielsen

    Code isn't just a way to implement a design, it's a way to find one.

  • The HTML Brand: The rise of input-based outcomes by Emmett Shine

    How creative work is shifting from traditional outputs to atomic system-led outcomes.

  • How to make your design system AI-ready by Vitaly Friedman

    We shouldn't assume that AI knows how to choose the right component and how to design with accessibility in mind. It needs priorities, a clear path on how we make decisions, design principles, examples, do's and don'ts.

  • The parts of your system you never wrote down by Murphy Trueman

    An agent doesn't stop at that edge. It can't. It runs into something you left open, a prop you never added, a state nobody designed, a spacing value that shows up in three components and never got a name, and it just keeps going.

  • Revealing text with CSS letter-spacing by Preethi

    The CSS letter-spacing property adjusts the space between all characters in a block of text.

  • Write-first design by Karl Koch

    A mockup is a persuasive object. It looks resolved even when the thinking underneath it is not.

  • Transitions by Jakub Antalik

    Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project.

  • What's missing in CSS layout by Patrick Brosset

    If I had to start with one, it would be overflow and wrapping detection, as it would unlock a lot of responsive design possibilities without needing JS.

  • Building for voice in, visuals out by Allen Pike

    Audio is the human-preferred input to AIs, but vision is the preferred output from them.

  • High-agency strategy by Matt Ström-Awn

    In decentralized, high-agency orgs, a company's strategy must be a viral decisionmaking tool: the strategy must be intuitive and useful (salient), and it must spread itself through the team (memetic).

  • An old, restless wish by Christopher Butler

    The prediction economy has grown because the demand for relief is enormous, and a forecast is a kind of relief, even when nothing it says happens to be true.

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