Claude Code for designers: A practical guide, and more...

Tuesday | February 10, 2026

Claude Code for designers: A practical guide by Tommaso Nervegna

A step-by-step guide to designing and shipping with Claude Code
Figma variables still don’t understand systems by Josh Cusick

They’re great at holding values, but terrible at explaining how those values are derived.
Shades of halftone by Maxime Heckel

An interactive deep dive into building halftone shaders in GLSL.
The return of the intuitive designer in the age of AI by James Harrison

Stay relevant by honing your intuition, not your process.

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

Monday | February 9, 2026

NotebookLM for Product Designers by Nick Babich

NotebookLM is one of the most interesting yet often overlooked free AI tools from Google.
Why designers can no longer trust the design process (video) by Jenny Wen, Hatch Conference

With AI accelerating prototyping, smaller teams doing more, and craft becoming a key differentiator, rigid processes are failing designers.
Design the machine by John Maeda

The real investment isn’t in systems that generate more output. It’s in systems that make output compound.
How design systems offer creative safety for product teams by Ben Callahan

Does your design system create “sameness” in the products that have adopted it?

Thursday | February 5, 2026

The decision before the work by Christopher Butler

What happens when the most consequential design decision is made before you even get started?
Typographic scales and technical pens by Rob Weychert

A flexible system for consistent stroke widths across type sizes
Drawing connections with CSS anchor positioning by Roland Franke

The idea is deceptively simple: let one element position itself relative to another, without JavaScript.
Agentic engineering by Addy Osmani

Vibe coding = YOLO. Agentic engineering = AI does the implementation, human owns the architecture, quality, and correctness.

Wednesday | February 4, 2026

The state of buttons by Liam Spradlin

The button's complexity is a result of how flexible the concept of a button really is.
Combobox vs. multiselect vs. listbox by Vitaly Friedman

How to choose the right one
The too early breakpoint by Ahmad Shadeed

An opinion on why we shouldn't switch to the smallest design too early.
Introduction to the new HTML element: geolocation by Manuel Matuzović

There is a new HTML element called geolocation. I checked it out and here's what I learned.

Tuesday | February 3, 2026

The new UX toolkit by Paz Perez

Data, context, and evals.
The AI delegation matrix by Taras Bakusevych

What parts of your UI shouldn't exist?
Data tables need to be accessible, too by Allie Paschal

Why data tables are an accessibility blind-spot (and how WCAG helps)
Dithering - Part 2 by Damar Aji Pramudita

Understanding threshold map in ordered dithering.
Self-improving coding agents by Addy Osmani

Imagine ending your workday and waking up to new features coded, tested, and ready for review.