Issue #748: Daily Designer
UI Skills for design engineers, Dieter Rams avoids computers. His ten rules still fit designing for AI, What is AX?, Design systems are over and more.
Highlights of the week
- Daily Designer - Every day, I’ll post a thought-provoking quote from a designer I admire. - Arun Venkatesan
- UI Skills for design engineers - Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides with copy-ready install commands. - Interface Office
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Dieter Rams avoids computers. His ten rules still fit designing for AI - He didn't invent functionalism; he framed it through the restraint of ten principles so it was clear and easy to understand. - Patrick Neeman
- What is AX? - AX is about teleporting to the goal. - John Maeda
Design engineering
- Design systems are over. Product context is the work - AI doesn't effectively recognize and implement components in isolation. What AI consumes - and amplifies - is context. - Robin Cannon
- The field guide to CSS Grid Lanes - Grid Lanes went through years of design, prototyping, and debate within the CSS Working Group. The result is something we’re genuinely proud of. - WebKit Team
Tools and resources
- heerich.js - heerich.js is a minimalist JavaScript engine that constructs 3D voxel compositions and distills them into pristine SVG. - David Aerne
- Check designs in Figma - Check designs compares your designs against your design system, flags what's off, and suggests the correct fix in one click. - Figma
Inspiration and creativity
- The old typography is new again - Good typography rarely announces itself, and optical sizing is a practice where a craft older than the printing press meets the most modern tooling we have. - Elliot Jay Stocks
- Words of Type - Words of Type brings together the terms used in typography, illustrated and explained in multiple languages. - Lisa Huang
Last but not least
- Loop engineering - Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead. - Addy Osmani