Issue #732: My favorite type of designers
Every designer needs to hear, Claude Code to Figma, Product design is changing, Designing in English, Customising lists with CSS, and more.
Highlights of the week
- My favorite type of designers - There are many types of GREAT designers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past two decades and what I learned is that they are all not measured equally. - Tobias van Schneider
- A private conversation every designer needs to hear - I just spent two hours getting my ass handed to me by someone who's technically unemployed. - Tommy Geoco
- Something big is happening - I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. - Matt Shumer
- From Claude Code to Figma - Turning production code into editable Figma designs. - Alex Kern, Gui Seiz
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Product design is changing - The gap between “designer who orchestrates AI” and “designer who pushes pixels in Figma” is going to be enormous within 12 months. - Roger Wong
- Designing in English - Components are dead. Use your words. - Mark Anthony Cianfrani
- Designing for transparent screens - Behind the scenes of Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design system for display AI glasses. - David Allin Reese
Design engineering
- Native HTML components don’t guarantee good UX - Just because it’s native doesn’t mean it guarantees good UX. - Adam Silver
- An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS - Richard Rutter helps you to make sense of list-style, list-item, ::marker, counters(), counter(), @counter-style, symbolic, symbols(), symbols and more to push your HTML and CSS lists to the next level. - Richard Rutter
- CSS Scope & Mixins - A chat with Chris Coyier. - Chris Coyier, Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo
Artificial intelligence
- Claude Code is re-shaping my design process - My process has changed significantly over the past few months. - Jeff Zych
- Consistency is primitive - When AI becomes infrastructure and software becomes bespoke, the economic imperative for standardization disappears. - Christopher Butler
Tools and resources
- The MCP tool that's changing how I use Figma - Creating 200+ variables took seconds, and mapping them to color swatch instances so the team could preview values was way easier than I expected. - Joey Banks
Last but not least
- The salad bar theory of UX professionalism - Less, but better? Not this week. - Jeffrey Zeldman