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Design links for September 4, 2026

  • A new workflow for designers by Paper

    Introducing Paper: a connected canvas, a new workflow for designers. Let agents do the busy work so you can focus on the decisions only you can make.

  • Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents by Peng Zheng

    We wanted to design for an agent that persists beyond any one session and can carry responsibility on its own.

  • Try these 10 skills by Miggi Cardona

    Now you can author skills for our agent, directly in Figma, to put your point of view to work. Here are 10 of our favorites to get you started.

  • DialKit: Tune interfaces in real time by Josh Puckett

    A floating control panel for React, Solid, Svelte, and Vue. Tune motion, layout, color, and every detail directly in your interface.

  • Design system contracts by Christine Vallaure

    Instead of treating Figma or code as the real one, you put a third thing in the middle.

  • The four modes of thinking with AI by Teyba Nnerman

    A practical operating system for working with AI tools. Used by thousands of practitioners - helping teams across industries unlock genuine AI fluency.

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  • Invisible interfaces by Felix Haas

    Design isn't disappearing along with the interface. It is concentrating, and all the care we used to spread across hundreds of screens now pours into a handful of moments, into a sentence, a summary, a request for permission.

  • On animating what you can't see by Karl Koch

    Any transition that animates a snapshot instead of the live view is worth checking for two failure modes: capturing bounds instead of drawn extent, and resizing instead of scaling.

  • Make your logo brighter than white by Chris Bennett

    Upload a logo, choose which colors should glow, download an HDR JPEG. On HDR screens the chosen parts shine up to 7.5× brighter than #FFFFFF.

  • The custodial era of UX: Cleaning up after AI by Raluca Budiu, Anna Kaley

    The problem is that production has become cheaper than UX evaluation. It can now take less time to create an experience than to decide whether that experience is useful, usable, trustworthy, or coherent.

  • Clarity: AI writing skill and editor by Addy Osmani

    Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

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