Issue #758: Design bookmarks
Early preview of the /design command in Claude Code, Cards: How a 3×5 rectangle conquered screen design, This is the best time to be a designer, and more.
Highlights of the week
- The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings - Granola captures every meeting and turns them into PRDs, tickets, and decisions. - Granola promoted
- Design bookmarks - I've added my design bookmarks to my website. 372 bookmarks, but I'll probably go through and pare them down over time, so the list is more useful on average. - Anthony Hobday
- Early preview of the /design command in Claude Code - From CC Desktop or CLI, try something like "/design a few options for {feature}" before you build — pick your fave artboard, edit it and implement. - Nate Parrott
Read all week, picked once. The best design links, every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Cards: How a 3×5 rectangle conquered screen design - A card packs everything about one item (image, title, key facts, action) inside a clearly bounded rectangle that the user's visual system sees as a single object, which is why cards excel at presenting browsable collections of self-contained things. - Jakob Nielsen
- This is the best time in history to be a designer (video) - Chatbots are not the final interface: OpenAI’s Head of Design on what’s next. - Lenny Rachitsky, Ian Silber
- Let your designs fail for the right reasons - If prototypes constrain user behavior, they may also shape the insights we get from usability testing. - Aarjav Pandya
Design engineering
- The critical design engineering manifesto - A remix of the 2011 Critical Engineering Manifesto for design engineers. - Pip Shea
- You don't have a design system - A component library gives you parts. A design system carries the decisions that make a product feel coherent. - Matt Rothenberg
- Design tokens, web components, and CSS @layer - Use design token metadata to generate :host defaults and :defined overrides for Shadow DOM web components. - Stuart Robson
Artificial intelligence
- Designing memory - The core of it all really is, how do you turn qualitative decisions into a quantifiable rubric? That's exactly how you train a model to get better at any task. - Ryan Mather, Benjamin Zweig, Federico Villa, Robin Chen
Tools and resources
- Scandinavian design: before and after - A Cursor agent skill for applying a restrained Scandinavian visual system to a codebase: black-and-white foundation, sans-serif type, generous spacing, and purposeful product imagery. - Eric Zakariasson
- Blume: World-class docs for everything you ship - Drop Markdown into a folder and ship a production-grade docs site, no app boilerplate to write or maintain. Free and open source, forever. - Hayden Bleasel
- Is Agentic - Is Agentic scores the public parts of a website that AI agents can discover, retrieve, understand, and use. - Vercel
Last but not least
- Protecting the thinking behind great design (video) - For Linear, AI is most useful when it expands a designer's capacity to think, rather than doing the thinking for them. - Designer Fund, Isha Kumar, Karri Saarinen, Charlie Aufmann