Issue #766: Taste is not a design methodology
Craft: A collection of design engineering concepts, Design systems directory, Inside Anthropic’s design team, Pure UI in the agentic era, and more.
Highlights of the week
- An AI notepad for user interviews - Jot down what stands out while the participant talks, and Granola fills in the rest from the transcript after the call. Sign up on desktop for a free month. - Granola promoted
- Taste is not a design methodology - The moat crowd is right that judgment matters; they're wrong about where it comes from. - Patrick Neeman
- Craft: A collection of design engineering concepts - These essays are short and simple, meant as a collection of useful ideas and tricks rather than an exhaustive resource. - Gustavo Fior
- Design systems directory - 183 design systems, component libraries, and UI toolkits with screenshots, tech stacks, and links. 64 mention AI. - Romina Kavcic
Read all week, picked once. The best design links, every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Inside Anthropic’s design team - With AI shrinking dev cycles from weeks to hours, teams can sometimes build a working prototype before they've even agreed it's a good idea. - Designer Fund
Design engineering
- Pure UI in the agentic era - As agents take on more implementation work, how do we know they considered the states a change might affect? - Matt Rothenberg
Tools and resources
- Toolcraft - Toolcraft is an open-source starter kit and UI library for building custom design apps with AI. - Vlad Kamelsky, Alex Barashkov
Inspiration and creativity
- Interfere design system - Components, styles and guidelines for building Interfere products. - Jakub Krehel, Interfere
Last but not least
- The new age of software - Maybe I am too optimistic here, but there are entire industries still waiting for their first piece of software that is truly designed for the people using it. - Tobias van Schneider