Issue #737: Beyond prototyping
10 principles for fluid UI, Taste isn't a screenshot, Designing the AI user experience, Design Systems Report 2026, The great CSS expansion, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Lovable: Build apps and websites by chatting with AI - Idea to app in seconds, with your personal full stack engineer. - Lovable promoted
- Beyond prototyping - Prototyping is an increasingly important skill for any designer working in AI. - Nate Parrott
- 10 principles for fluid UI - Physics-based, interruptible motion and direct manipulation transform interfaces from lifeless slideshows into experiences that feel genuinely alive. - Karl Koch
Read all week, picked once. The best design links, every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Taste isn't a screenshot - There’s a difference between recognizing that something is good and understanding why it’s good. - Anton Sten
- Designing the AI user experience - AI is not just a better chat box. - Jakob Nielsen
Design engineering
- Design Systems Report 2026 - Buy-in is down. Adoption is stalling. But AI is changing the game. - zeroheight
- The color system I wish I understood sooner - Does your system for naming colors always feel like it falls short? This two-layer approach solves so many problems. - Kyle Van Deusen
- The great CSS expansion - CSS now does what Floating UI, GSAP ScrollTrigger, Framer Motion, and react-select used to require JavaScript for. - Pavel Laptev
Inspiration and creativity
- The creative infinite - Never before in human history has it been possible for anyone to simply ask for something to exist, and then it just…exists. - Brad Frost
Last but not least
- Your AI edge is the vocabulary you already have - What a decade of design fundamentals taught me about delegating to Claude Code—and why Shift Nudge was secretly an AI onboarding course before AI existed. - Matt D. Smith, Caden Damiano