Design links for April 9, 2026

Good craft always finds its way in the world, it’s just a question of how much you can get paid by an organization for it.

I’m all aboard the CSS subgrid train. Now I’m seeing subgrid everywhere. Seriously, what was I doing before subgrid? I feel like I was bashing rocks together.

A collection of utility functions to more easily work with View Transitions.

Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs.

There's a question that never goes away in design: should designers code? My answer has always been yes.

The most useful feedback your system has ever produced is on a thirty-day timer.

Human-focused language, the language we’re used to seeing in Design System variables, does not translate well when imported to be read by an AI agent.

Mason Poe (Founder, Edgar Allan) sits down with Corey Moen, web designer, former Webflow brand team lead, and now part of the Web team at Anthropic, for a wide-ranging conversation about what's actually changing in design, marketing, and the web.

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.