Issue #701: Product design in 2025
Designing for the eye, How AI changed product design, Liquid glass, A new way to style gaps in CSS, Drawing CSS Shapes using corner-shape, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Ycode AI: Start your website with AI - Build your website in seconds with AI, then take full control of design and content in Ycode. - Ycode promoted
- Product design in 2025 - I'm digging into 7 questions that companies have asked me in recent months. - Tom Scott
- Designing for the eye - Optical corrections in architecture and typography. - Niko Kitsakis
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- How to convince leaders to try new ideas - Change creates risk and most people do not like risk. - Scott Berkun
- Liquid glass, fragile UX, and why I wanted 2 weeks before writing about it - A calm, inclusive look at Apple's most radical UI shift. - Oleg Safranov
Design engineering
- A new way to style gaps in CSS - Say goodbye to border and pseudo-element hacks, and hello to CSS gap decorations. - Sam Davis Omekara, Patrick Brosset
- Drawing CSS Shapes using corner-shape - When you define a border-radius you will get rounded corners. corner-shape allows you to change those rounded corners to something else. - Temani Afif
Artificial intelligence
- Designing AI features people actually want (video) - How to identify the right opportunities to design AI into a product that's already working. - Ioana Teleanu, Michael Riddering
Last but not least
- The broken rhetoric of AI - A detox guide for designers navigating today's AI discourse. - Mike Schindler