Issue #735: Details that make interfaces feel better
The last interface, Design process, Durable patterns, Icon component sizes, Breakpoints, The Agent Skills Directory, and more.
Highlights of the week
- What famous creatives had to unlearn from design school - Reflections from Stefan Sagmeister, Shantell Martin, Erik Kessels, and 10 more creatives—in the new editorial project Unlearned, created by Readymag. - Readymag sponsored
- Details that make interfaces feel better - Great interfaces rarely come from a single thing. It's usually a collection of small things that compound into a great experience. - Jakub Krehel
- The last interface - Will AI agents kill design as we know it? - Heenesh Patel
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Design process isn't dead, it’s compressed - As AI speeds up design work, the argument to "throw out the process" misrepresents how experienced designers work. - Sarah Gibbons, Huei-Hsin Wang
- Durable patterns in AI product design - In my recent Designing AI Products talk, I outlined several of the lessons we've learned building AI-native companies over the past four years. - Luke Wroblewski
Design engineering
- Managing icon component sizes - It's time to retire that icon wrapper component. - Alice Packard
- How to supercharge your design system with slots - Slots give you the ability to customize components without breaking the system. - Zoë Adelman, Sarah Kelly
- Breakpoints - Screen resolutions and the 320/360 devide mishap. - Matthias Zöchling
Artificial intelligence
- A designer’s thoughts about this moment in AI - I fundamentally believe that most people working to create things and put them out into the world are doing it because they want to make the world a better place. - Brad Frost
Tools and resources
- I built 63 design skills for Claude - Teaching AI what designers know so it can work with us, not around us. - Marie-Claire Dean
- The Agent Skills Directory - Discover and install skills for AI agents. - Vercel
- Agentation - The visual feedback tool for agents. - Alex Vanderzon, Benji Taylor, Dennis Jin
Inspiration and creativity
- A calmer interface for a product in motion - The thinking, trade-offs, and tools behind our design refresh. - Charlie Aufmann, Maxime Heckel
Last but not least
- Every company is a startup now - Large companies spent years rewarding the representation of work over the work itself. In the AI era, that has led to a crisis. - Hardik Pandya