Issue #717: Design’s Github moment
Branding Superhuman, On Dynamic Island, When design drives behavior, Springs and bounces in native CSS, The mystery of storytelling, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Design’s Github moment - The future of design to code. - Drew Wilson, Michael Riddering
- Branding Superhuman - It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s an unbelievably complex identity system. - Smith & Diction
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- On Dynamic Island - Dynamic Island is a clever compromise, but not good design. - Shu Ding
- When design drives behavior - In some cases, design is what something looks like. In other cases, design is how something works. - Jason Fried
Design engineering
- View Transition API - The View Transition API provides a way to animate elements when moving from one page to another. - Brad Woods
- Springs and bounces in native CSS - The magic of the linear() timing function. - Joshua Comeau
Artificial intelligence
- Vibe prototyping and Cursor - In over a decade of designing products, I have learned two important things about ideasb. - Hardik Pandya
- Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups - Figma’s founder on why design is how software wins now. - Dylan Field, Lenny Rachitsky
Tools and resources
- Get Affinity free now - See how Affinity makes professional design accessible to everyone. Fully featured, and creative freedom for all. - Affinity
- Introducing Figma Weave - The next generation of AI-native creation at Figma. - Dylan Field
Inspiration and creativity
- Dithering - Understanding how dithering works, visually. - Damar
- An abundance of inspiration - And the endless unfinished thing. - Robin Rendle
Last but not least
- The mystery of storytelling - Humans love stories. - Matthias Ott