Issue #760: The Head of Design is not the head of design
Gestalt principles for visual UI design, Logo design inspiration, Notes on visual design, Building Interfere’s new website, and more.
Highlights of the week
- The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings - Granola captures every meeting and turns them into PRDs, tickets, and decisions. - Granola promoted
- The Head of Design is not the head of design - Whoever holds the title is not the head of design. They were hired to build somebody else's caring into the organization, so it survives that person leaving the room. - Renato Valdés-Olmos
- Gestalt principles for visual UI design - Proximity, similarity, enclosure, and the other Gestalt cues guide the eye, snapping visual chaos into clarity. - Jakob Nielsen
Read all week, picked once. The best design links, every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Notes on visual design - Beauty and function are not different. Beauty IS a function. And it is important. - Anthony Hobday
- AI chat makes software easier, but not faster, to use - AI can reduce the work of doing a task without removing the work of understanding the task well enough to know whether it was done correctly. - Tanner Christensen
Design engineering
- How we built Interfere’s new website - Every asset on the website is built in code, with a few exceptions where it wasn't possible. - Jakub Krehel, Paul Faivret
- How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md - How we built design.md, a single public file any coding agent can load to build on-brand Vercel pages, and the eval loop that decided every rule inside it. - John Phamous
Tools and resources
- Mesurer: UI inspector and visual feedback - Measure, inspect, and capture interfaces directly in your browser. Mesurer brings precise visual feedback to your coding workflow. - Julien Thibeaut
- Cuelume: Interaction sounds for the web - Seventeen cues, synthesized live with Web Audio, with nothing to download and nothing to configure. - Daniel White
Inspiration and creativity
- The designer who drew Cursor's icons - Marek Minor spent a year drawing Cursor's complete icon set: more than 600 icons, two sizes, two styles, every one by hand. Five questions that go even deeper into his world. - Marek Minor, Jan Haaland
- Looogos: Logo design inspiration - A curated collection of logos discovered in the wild for design inspiration. - Maze Heart
Last but not least
- Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents - We wanted to design for an agent that persists beyond any one session and can carry responsibility on its own. - Peng Zheng