Design links for April 7, 2026

Jenny Wen led design on FigJam, one of the most playful tools to hit design in a decade. Now she's at Anthropic designing Claude. Not just the model, but the product that millions use daily.

A product needs to be useful, usable, and well-crafted. When you do all three well, you have a product people love.

How Uber built an agentic system to automate design specs in minutes.

The most important design tool right now might be a text cursor.

How your design decisions translate to screen reader output.

The canvas still matters. The craft still matters. Your judgment still matters.

The entire design system flows from one idea: define colours perceptually, derive everything else.

We get into what it actually feels like to be “scaredcited” right now.

What’s changing in 2026.

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

The three elements of a pricing strategy.

Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up.

When agents absorb the middle of the workflow, what's left is what always mattered.

Design jobs are flat. The design process is "dead." So why does design matter more than ever?

This article describes the skills that Figma provides for the Figma MCP server.

What a rising job title reveals.

AI doesn't threaten craft—the temptation to skip iteration does.

We are officially entering the era of agentic scale. The challenge now is learning how to orchestrate it gracefully.

One of the coolest transitions on this blog.

The Figma basics you were told to get right just became the foundation for something much bigger.