Issue #747: Write-first design
The art of noticing, Discovery vs delivery, The HTML Brand: The rise of input-based outcomes, How to make your design system AI-ready, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Write-first design - A mockup is a persuasive object. It looks resolved even when the thinking underneath it is not. - Karl Koch
- The art of noticing - What we pay attention to opens up. Stare at an ant for an hour and you'll be enthralled. Dive deep into a subject and you'll become obsessed. Really tune into a conversation and it will expand. - mymind
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Discovery vs delivery - Now AI has compressed delivery so aggressively, discovery becomes the dominant differentiator between products. - Buzz Usborne
Design engineering
- The HTML Brand: The rise of input-based outcomes - How creative work is shifting from traditional outputs to atomic system-led outcomes. - Emmett Shine
- How to make your design system AI-ready - We shouldn't assume that AI knows how to choose the right component and how to design with accessibility in mind. It needs priorities, a clear path on how we make decisions, design principles, examples, do's and don'ts. - Vitaly Friedman
Tools and resources
- Animation Vocabulary - A glossary of common animation patterns taught in the course. Use these names to describe what you want when prompting an AI. - Emil Kowalski
- Train your judgement - Putting into words why something feels right trains your ability to articulate your judgment, a skill that will be incredibly valuable in the AI era. - Emil Kowalski
- Transitions - Collection of the most essential transitions for web apps that you can just copy and paste into any project. - Jakub Antalik
Inspiration and creativity
- How I rebuilt my portfolio with Claude Code - Why coding your own site is finally worth the effort and what it actually unlocks. - Patrick Morgan
Last but not least
- High-agency strategy - In decentralized, high-agency orgs, a company's strategy must be a viral decisionmaking tool: the strategy must be intuitive and useful (salient), and it must spread itself through the team (memetic). - Matt Ström-Awn