Designing in English, and more...

Friday | February 20, 2026

An AI notepad for user interviews by Granola promoted
Jot down what stands out while the participant talks, and Granola fills in the rest from the transcript after the call. Sign up on desktop for a free month.
Designing in English by Mark Anthony Cianfrani

Components are dead. Use your words.
Consistency is primitive by Christopher Butler

When AI becomes infrastructure and software becomes bespoke, the economic imperative for standardization disappears.
Making the design team visible by Arkadiusz Radek

Stakeholder alliances, lighthouse projects, and the design process for non-designers.
An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS by Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter helps you to make sense of list-style, list-item, ::marker, counters(), counter(), @counter-style, symbolic, symbols(), symbols and more to push your HTML and CSS lists to the next level.
CSS Scope & Mixins by Chris Coyier, Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo

A chat with Chris Coyier.

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

Thursday | February 19, 2026

Designing for transparent screens by David Allin Reese

Behind the scenes of Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design system for display AI glasses.
The latest design problem? Getting a job by Carly Ayres

On design hiring and getting a job in 2026.
Designers who ship by Micka Touillaud

The 5 trust levels of AI-native design teams.
We're getting better at the workaround by Murphy Trueman

On Figma's code-to-canvas announcement, and why smoother translation might be making the structural problem harder to fix.

Wednesday | February 18, 2026

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.

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?

Design links for February 20, 2026