Issue #723: Vibe coding for designers
MDS’s creative process, Product discovery, Design engineering gap, CSS text-grow, Embrace friction, CSS Wrapped 2025, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Figma Make: Turn your designs into interactive prototypes in minutes - Turn your ideas into clickable, on-brand prototypes. Just paste in your current Figma design and see it come to life. - Figma sponsored
- Vibe coding for designers - My actual process. - Anton Sten
- Sneak peek of MDS’s creative process - I’ve probably learned more about visual design from MDS than anyone in the design community. - Matt D. Smith, Michael Riddering
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Make it ugly, for clients - Beautiful design mockups can be distracting, giving a false sense of what is complete and what still needs to be done. - Miriam Suzanne
- 0 → 1 product discovery - On approaching vaguely defined design problems with no data. - Arkadiusz Radek
Design engineering
- Design engineering gap - Addressing the design-engineering gap with AI coding tools - Pratheep Kumar Chelladurai
- CSS text-grow - Fit width text in 1 line of CSS. - Adam Argyle
Inspiration and creativity
- CSS Wrapped 2025 - 22 powerful new CSS features landed in Chrome this year. - The Chrome DevRel Team
Last but not least
- Embrace friction - On letterpress, tech, and the power of going slow. - Eva Decker