Strategy-to-pixels, and more...

Monday | November 10, 2025

Strategy-to-pixels by David Hoang

Full stack influence in an age of agency.
Slots in design systems by Nathan Curtis

Improving flexibility through custom composition within components.
Bridging product design and AI thinking by Bradly Zavakos

The shift in product design with the advent of AI and a potential generative experiential future.
Design systems as living systems by Emily Strobl

The history and future of the Rocket Design System.
Why are we in this mess? by Dragan Babic

AI didn't devalue technological service work.

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

Friday | November 7, 2025

Figma’s inclusive design updates by Allie Paschal

Is Figma in its accessibility era?
The weird parts of position: sticky; by Adam Rackis

One of those CSS features that’s incredibly useful, seemingly simple, and also, frequently frustrating.
Accessible benefits of using semantic HTML by Geoff Graham

Using semantic elements where possible is one of those “best practice” statements we pick up along the way.
AI prototyping in real design contexts by Huei-Hsin Wang, Megan Brown

AI prototyping tools follow general directions but lack the judgment and nuance of an experienced designer.
HTML dialog: Getting accessibility and UX right by Jared Cunha

Creating dialogs that work well for all users requires intentional accessibility and UX decisions.

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.

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.