Issue #712: 5 habits of the best designers
The art of prototyping, Craft in product design, Vibe code straight from your website, CSS Boilerplate, Components as data, 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
- The 5 habits of the best designers - A simple list I wish more designers embraced. - Scott Berkun
- The art of prototyping - The enduring skill that neutralizes noise. - David Hoang
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Craft in product design - Craft isn't a one dimensional trait. Here are 5 criteria to help talk about craft. - Ron Goldin
- Taste vs. empathy - In the pursuit of the superpower that makes designers irreplaceable. - Filip Mishevski
- The psychology of trust In AI - A guide to measuring and designing for user confidence. - Victor Yocco
Design engineering
- What you need to know about modern CSS - Check out our list of the best stuff with easy-to-reference examples. - Chris Coyier
- Why you should care about design context - As developers increasingly use agentic coding tools, the structure and clarity of design files matters more than ever. - Thomas Lowr
- Components as data - How to define components independent of platforms to scale a system's impact. - Nathan Curtis
Artificial intelligence
- AI will happily design the wrong thing for you - The problem isn’t that AI exists. The problem is how most people use it. - Anton Sten
- Vibe code straight from your website - Skip Figma and prototype where your product already lives. - Allie Paschal
Tools and resources
- Quiet UI - A UI library for the Web. Focusing on accessibility, longevity, performance, and simplicity. - Cory LaViska
- Cursor Learn - This course will teach you about how to use AI to be more effective as a programmer. - Lee Robinson
- CSS Boilerplate - A default CSS structure for projects of any size. - Manuel Matuzović
Inspiration and creativity
- Transitioning from being a developer to a manager - I understand what it means to move into a management position as a developer, and hopefully, some advice I can impart here will be useful. - Liam Egan
Last but not least
- Getting more strategic - To wrap up, strategy is about more than just a vision; it’s about navigating the path to get there. - Cate Huston