Design links for February 27, 2026

Agents are shipping faster than we can think so we need a space to zoom out more than ever.

A four-act reflection on how frictionless AI tools reshape creative behaviour, blur intention, and make committing to a final version increasingly difficult.

The work AI makes easiest to skip is the work that matters most.

Letters to a Young Creator is a collection of honest perspectives on what it takes to make something great, written by people who have done it before.

In this blog post, I’ll show you the best way I’ve found to work with sprites in CSSb.

It’s a powerful upcoming CSS primitive that defines a custom shape for an element’s border.

It's hard to move in the regular spaces right now as a designer without noticing the continuing noise about AI.

You declare your dependencies with URLs, then they’re fetched over the network and become available to the rest of your code.

There is always a thousand details that could be better, but for every thousand only a hundred might actually be worthwhile.

A deep dive into how the practice of design is evolving at Stripe and everything they’re doing to push past the status quo.

The shift is quiet but it’s real.

Built a vinyl-style music shelf with spring physics, deflection, hover layers and velocity gating; reduces motion to grid/mobile.

How we restructured Intercom’s information architecture.

Treating code like a pencil, not a blueprint.

Learn how Google's latest model changes the way designers prototype, build, and ship.

A design manifesto.

Cowork just dropped for Windows and Intel-based macOS with full feature parity. Here's everything you need.

Why the best designers are focused on what AI can’t do.

Below the line, there is no product.

There are many types of GREAT designers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past two decades and what I learned is that they are all not measured equally.

Creating 200+ variables took seconds, and mapping them to color swatch instances so the team could preview values was way easier than I expected.

I just spent two hours getting my ass handed to me by someone who's technically unemployed.

User interfaces need to be improved, not removed.

My process has changed significantly over the past few months.

Just because it’s native doesn’t mean it guarantees good UX.