Issue #746: Tobias van Schneider creates the things he wish existed
Fontastic Space, Figmalion newsletter, Intent is the design superpower AI can't replace, The 2–7 problem, Our CSS isn't opinionated enough, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Tobias van Schneider creates the things he wish existed - Good typography is the bedrock of good design. In some cases, it is the design. - Nikolas Wrobel
- Fontastic Space - Compare Google Fonts side-by-side with anatomy overlays, OpenType metrics, pairing scores, and ready-to-use CSS. - Dasha Dzisko
- Figmalion newsletter - A weekly roundup of hand-picked design resources and publications covering the Figma ecosystem, design tools, AI workflows, and product craft. - Eugene Fedorenko
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Intent is the design superpower AI can't replace - The moment we define our value by how fast we can build something, we have already lost. - Raff Di Meo
- The 2–7 problem - The trap isn't AI. The trap is that 7 is easier to reach than it's ever been, and 7 feels like enough. - Anton Sten
Design engineering
- Our CSS isn't opinionated enough - When the styling hook is anchored to semantics, you can't get the visual styles without also getting the parts that make it accessible. - Craig Abbott
Tools and resources
- 50+ Claude Code skills for designers and product managers - 50 hand-picked Claude Code skills drawn from five excellent open-source collections. - Tommaso Nervegna
- Just a design list - A slow, curated index of design studios and independent practices. 814 entries across 54 countries. - Wences Sanz-Alonso
Inspiration and creativity
- Why the Ferrari Luce looks like that - When your explicit goal is to attract a completely different buyer with an entirely different product that shares almost nothing with your decades of history, you're going to alienate the people who loved what you had before. - Arun Venkatesan
Last but not least
- The interface is no longer the product - Agents do not need a mouse. They do not need a menu. They do not need a canvas. They need structured state they can read, reason about, and rewrite. - Alejandro Gonzalez