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Thursday | November 6, 2025

The next ascent for design systems by Yesenia Perez-Cruz

Beyond the plateau of sameness.
A modern classless CSS framework by Mike Mai

Inspired by the typefaces of Matthew Carter.
Perfectly pointed tooltips by Temani Afif

Tooltips are a classic in web development.
Six key components of UX strategy by Vitaly Friedman

UX strategy isn’t a goal; it’s a journey towards that goal.
Practical examples of view transitions by Declan Chidlow

Some practical examples of view transitions to elevate your UI.

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

Wednesday | November 5, 2025

True design is better than new design by David Reinfurt, Liam Spradlin, Google Design

David Reinfurt discusses how individual perspective is the real driver of a design practice.
Designing Perplexity by Luke Wroblewski, Henry Modisett

Insights on designing AI products and the evolving role of designers.
Japanese letterforms by Tobias van Schneider

What makes Japanese letterforms so irresistible to designers?
How to optimize SVG files by Laura Kalbag

A complete guide for beginners.
Super simple full-bleed & breakout styles by Ana Tudor

Having a width-limited centered column of content is common and good, but what do you do when you need to break out?

Tuesday | November 4, 2025

The fundamentals problem by Christopher Butler

Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.
Use cases for field sizing by Ahmad Shadeed

A quick look at field-sizing and where it can be used.
Solved by CSS scroll state queries by Bramus Van Damme

Hide a header when scrolling down, show it again when scrolling up.
Building AI-driven workflows powered by Claude Code and other tools by Iasonas Georgiadis

How agentic CLI tools extend Figma MCP and turn wireframes into production-ready prototypes.

Monday | November 3, 2025

Branding Superhuman by Smith & Diction

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s an unbelievably complex identity system.
Introducing Figma Weave by Dylan Field

The next generation of AI-native creation at Figma.
Vibe prototyping and Cursor by Hardik Pandya

In over a decade of designing products, I have learned two important things about ideasb.
Custom cursor accessibility by David Bushell

The one where I fat finger with a mouse.
View Transition API by Brad Woods

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

Friday | October 31, 2025

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Mobile to models and leading design with craft by Hardik Pandya

Most design leaders right now are treating AI the way they treated mobile in 2008: delegating it, outsourcing judgment, waiting for patterns to settle.
A beginner-friendly guide to view transitions in CSS by Yash Raj Bharti

Imagine if your site could animate smoothly between pages.
Tab stops on the web by Thomas Günther

Did you know that you can use tab stops in HTML?
On Dynamic Island by Shu Ding

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

Design links for November 6, 2025