Issue #698: The new age of UI
The UX butterfly effect, Apple Design Award, State of CSS 2025, UX challenges with MCP, Obra icons, The future-proof designer, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Design clean, beautiful newsletter layouts - The newsletter tool that feels like Notion. Write, send, and publish to your site: zero clutter, zero tech skills required. - LetterBucket sponsored
- Physicality: the new age of UI - There's a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let's imagine what's next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads. - Sebastiaan de With
- Introducing the 2025 Apple Design Award winners - There's a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let's imagine what's next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads. - Apple
- State of CSS 2025 - After years of rapid innovation, now feels like the right time for browser vendors to take a beat to consolidate, fix browser inconsistencies, and let the rest of us catch up. - Devographics
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- The art secret behind all great design - The secret of graphic design has always been known by artists: structure does more work than content while convincing its audience of the opposite. - Christopher Butler
- The UX butterfly effect - Understanding unintended consequences in design and how to plan for them. - Martin Tomitsch
Design engineering
- Getting creative with HTML dialog - How can you take dialogue box design beyond the generic look of frameworks and templates? - Andy Clarke
- Exploring the OKLCH ecosystem and its tools - Explore a powerful set of tools built around the OKLCH color model. - Irina Nazarova, Travis Turner, Arthur Objartel
Artificial intelligence
- UX challenges with MCP - MCP has a long way to go in its user experience to become palatable to a wider consumer base. - Hardik Pandya
- A designer's guide to engaging with AI - Jessica Hische on informed critique, staying curious, and why community matters more than ever. - Carly Ayres
- The false confidence of AI - This is coming from the pressure AI feels to deliver a good answer on the first try. - Ron Goldin
Tools and resources
- Obra Icons - A simple, consistent set of icons, perfect for user interfaces. - Obra Studio
- The prompt engineering playbook for programmers - Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners - Addy Osmani
Inspiration and creativity
- The future-proof designer - Top product experts share four strategies for remaining indispensable as AI changes UI design, accelerates feature production, and reshapes data analysis. - Sara Paul
Last but not least
- Making progress on controversial problems - Have you ever been pulled into a controversial strategy or team problem - one where every person involved has an opinion, no one agrees, and no one has an actual solution? - Ami Vora