Design links for November 10, 2026

Free, open-source skills that teach AI agents to build better interfaces, from animation and gestures to mobile polish, for designers and engineers.

A community-submitted gallery of iPhone app icons. Browse, track redesigns, and submit icons you've spotted in prod.

Design tooling has stopped existing on a single and predictable path and has started scattering.

Touch on non-handheld computers seems to be more than just a quirky feature; it can be a selective accelerator for some interactions.

Convergence isn’t the enemy. It’s the floor. Standardise what users expect so you can spend your energy where they don’t.

A collection becomes something else when its arrangement starts carrying meaning the pictures don't on their own.

What people now call taste is mostly knowing what to take away, which means seeing the finished thing before you start.

My goal is to help you maintain critical thinking in a world where it's easy to offload anything to an agent.

Your page tells the agent what it can do, in a format the agent understands, and the agent calls those actions directly.

Apple's text styles gave me a useful starting point because they're organised around jobs: Body, Headline, Subheadline, Caption, and the various titles.

Karri Saarinen’s uncompromising and distinct approach to quality has made him an iconic designer/CEO.

I've put together tidy-typography.css, which gathers the useful parts into a default stylesheet: rendering and fallback rules, fluid sizing, vertical rhythm, wrapping, hyphenation, and OpenType detail.

While creating Adaptive Dark Mode, we developed a color matrix to invert the luminosity of colors while preserving hue.

I think design engineers are the perfect people to help figure out the shape of the future.

A native feature only reduces complexity when it actually replaces what was there before and doesn't disrupt the calm state of everything else it interacts with.

Blossom enhances native scrolling instead of replacing it.

Why builders hand you a lookalike, what has to exist before an agent can use your components, and the MCP setup I use.

I focus on where the tools are dependable and where my judgment makes the final call.

The challenge isn't a design system rebranding, it's a cross-functional translation.

A rigid design kit is a cache of design decisions, prone to becoming obsolete with the requirements constantly evolving.