Issue #728: Rethinking “pixel perfect”
The future of design, Figma Slots, Vibe engineering, My opinionated CSS reset, Starting with variables, Notes on not posting, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Rethinking “pixel perfect” web design - Stop counting pixels. Start building intent.
- On coding agents and the future of design - How Claude Code is showing us what apps may become. - Jeff Veen
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- How vibe engineering is flipping product design - UX folk can look forward to building products, not just drawing pictures of them. - Phil Morton
- Gas town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale - On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code. - Maggie Appleton
Design engineering
- My opinionated CSS reset - A CSS reset for modern web development to provide a consistent and high-quality base for projects. - Declan Chidlow
- How I think about starting with variables - A simple way to get unstuck with variables. - Joey Banks
- What makes generated UI worth keeping? - How brand, data, and reuse help ideas move past the demo phase. - Allie Paschal
- Designing beyond the happy path in design systems - There are no edge cases. Only cases you haven’t designed for – yet. - Stéphanie Walter
Artificial intelligence
- The rise of agentic AI and user-centric design - Building an agentic system requires a new level of psychological and behavioral understanding. - Victor Yocco
- Power prompts in Claude Code - A single natural language prompt that runs parallel agents, captures visual regression screenshots, and creates reusable skills in Claude Code. - Hardik Pandya
Tools and resources
- Figma Slots for repeating items - How to convert one of your library’s most common patterns. - Nathan Curtis
- Volume: 3D OKLCH color picker - Volume is a professional 3D OKLCH color picker and procedural palette generator for UI and design-system creators. - Chroma Design Lab, Eldon Loblein
Inspiration and creativity
- CSS optical illusions - A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML. - Alvaro Montoro
Last but not least
- Notes on not posting - Intermittent fasting for the terminally online. - Anu Atluru