From Claude Code to Figma, and more...

Wednesday | February 18, 2026

An AI notepad for user interviews by Granola promoted
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From Claude Code to Figma by Gui Seiz, Alex Kern

Turning production code into editable Figma designs.
Something big is happening by Matt Shumer

I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job.
Magic by Jeremy Keith

Large language model coding tools truly are magic. I don’t like magic.
Showing the work of agents in UI by Luke Wroblewski

As AI products lean more heavily into agentic capabilities, the same design challenges keep surfacing across projects.
Beyond the text field by Liam Spradlin, Louise Macfadyen

Managing the conceptual distance between what AI actually does and what people imagine it can do.
Building typographic scales in CSS by Stuart Robson

Learn how to build flexible, mathematical typographic scales using :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow() for cleaner CSS design systems.

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Tuesday | February 17, 2026

Product design is changing by Roger Wong

The gap between “designer who orchestrates AI” and “designer who pushes pixels in Figma” is going to be enormous within 12 months.
The salad bar theory of UX professionalism by Jeffrey Zeldman

Less, but better? Not this week.
Design systems are today’s cure and tomorrow’s cause of shitty software by PJ Onori

If quality goes, design systems are nothing more than an enshittification accelerator.
The hidden cost of AI prototypes that are made to die by Allie Paschal

How product teams should evaluate AI-generated UI.

Monday | February 16, 2026

The new design process by Tom Johnson

I think I figured out my new design process.
The natural design process by Filip Mishevski

Exploration of the essence of what we do and how we do it.
Design systems checklist by Tyler Coderre

A step-by-step checklist for building design systems.
This is Figma's "Make" or break moment by Chad Johnson

Figma's AI offering Make has gotten substantially better, but is it enough to keep up with other innovative AI-native design workflows?

Thursday | February 12, 2026

Design principles for future AI by Dan Saffer

The central question is no longer whether a system can perform a task, but how that performance affects human agency and cognition.
What design leaders must unlearn to lead in an AI-first world by Arin Bhowmick

The path to designing for AI is in questioning the fundamentals of what design stands for.
14 more lessons from 14 years at Google by Addy Osmani

I hope a few of them save you a scar or two.
The CSS selection by Bart Veneman

The state of real-world CSS usage, 2026 edition.

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.

Design links for February 18, 2026