Design links for November 3, 2025

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s an unbelievably complex identity system.

The next generation of AI-native creation at Figma.

In over a decade of designing products, I have learned two important things about ideasb.

The one where I fat finger with a mouse.

The View Transition API provides a way to animate elements when moving from one page to another.

See how Affinity makes professional design accessible to everyone. Fully featured, and creative freedom for all.

Most design leaders right now are treating AI the way they treated mobile in 2008: delegating it, outsourcing judgment, waiting for patterns to settle.

Imagine if your site could animate smoothly between pages.

Did you know that you can use tab stops in HTML?

Dynamic Island is a clever compromise, but not good design.

There are many times when you’re building things for people that are clearly very outside your own experience.

Watch/listen to the core ideas from Why Design Is Hard.

Tooltips are a classic in web development.

The isometric art of David Wildish.

Understanding how dithering works, visually.

Figma’s founder on why design is how software wins now.

In 1973, experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton wrote a letter to MoMA that captures a paradox that still defines creative work today.

Humans love stories.

In our field, speed is often mistaken for haste.

On mobile, people can lose their sense of context and can’t easily tell where a section begins or ends.

Tooltips are a classic in web development.