Issue #721: Reminder for all designers
Designing menus, Agentic AI interface, Building the v0 iOS app, CSS Subgrid, CSS if statements, Susty Icons, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Elevate design and speed. 50% off first 3 mos - Stop debugging client's hosting issues. Focus on design work, deliver lightning-fast sites, and keep more profit. Plus, get 50 free migrations. - Cloudways sponsored
- A cruel reminder for all designers - Think like an artist, design like a designer. - Tobias van Schneider
- How we built the v0 iOS app - As a company focused on the web, building a native app was new territory for us. - Fernando Rojo
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Designing effective contextual menus - When used well, contextual menus help reduce visual noise, streamline layouts, and support focused interaction. - Kate Kaplan
- Agentic AI interface improvements - Today's AI chat interfaces hit usability issues when models engage in extended reasoning and tool use. - Luke Wroblewski
Design engineering
- CSS if statements and conditional logic - The new if() function is an exciting addition to the CSS toolbox. - Marko Denic
- Brand new layouts with CSS Subgrid - Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree. - Joshua Comeau
Tools and resources
- Susty Icons - Simple, smart, and scalable vector graphics for a speedy and sustainable web. - Ross Newell
Inspiration and creativity
- Notes From an Interview With Jony Ive - Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, interviewed Jony Ive at Stripe Sessions. - Jim Nielsen
Last but not least
- Own a graph - If you are a senior engineer or PM or designer, you should own a graph. - Stay SaaSy