Issue #726: The rise of the Model Designer
When design gets louder, Designer's toolkit for Claude Code, From 0 to Minimum Lovable Product, Building a toast component, and more.
Highlights of the week
- The rise of the Model Designer - The emergence of this new role seems like proof of this change we're noticing. - Barron Webster, Ryan Mather, Federico Villa, Robin Chen
- When design gets louder, it also gets fragile - Speaking about design is easy. Protecting it is harder. - Nassos Kappa
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons - Looking at the first principles of icon design, and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe - Nikita Prokopov
- From 0 to Minimum Lovable Product - How we balanced speed and quality to build a consumer-grade SaaS product. - Ron Goldin
Design engineering
- Building a toast component - How I built Sonner, an opinionated toast library for React used by millions. - Emil Kowalski
- Context-based design systems - A new model for the AI-Driven product lifecycle. - TJ Pitre
Tools and resources
- Designer's toolkit for Claude Code (video) - This conversation is a deep dive into very specific tactics you can use on your own design engineering journey. - Kyle Zantos, Michael Riddering
- Working with AI-readable design systems in Cursor - When AI entered design workflows, it changed how I thought about design systems. - Pierre Bremell
Last but not least
- The State of HTML 2025 survey results - Forms, graphics, performance features, methods of interacting with various system and device APIs, accessibility. - Sacha Greif, Lea Verou