HeyDesigner — Hand-picked Design Links, Daily

Monday | January 26, 2026

Figma Slots for repeating items by Nathan Curtis

How to convert one of your library’s most common patterns.
How I think about starting with variables by Joey Banks

A simple way to get unstuck with variables.
Gas town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale by Maggie Appleton

On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code.
Power prompts in Claude Code by Hardik Pandya

A single natural language prompt that runs parallel agents, captures visual regression screenshots, and creates reusable skills in Claude Code.
My opinionated CSS reset by Declan Chidlow

A CSS reset for modern web development to provide a consistent and high-quality base for projects.
My beef with the iOS 26 tab bar by Ryan Ashcraft

The iOS 26 search tab looks more like an action button than a tab.

Thursday | January 22, 2026

How vibe engineering is flipping product design by Phil Morton

UX folk can look forward to building products, not just drawing pictures of them.
What makes generated UI worth keeping? by Allie Paschal

How brand, data, and reuse help ideas move past the demo phase.
Performance is not a technical problem by Shu Ding

After 400 performance PRs, I learned the problem isn't code or tools, it's entropy.
On coding agents and the future of design by Jeff Veen

How Claude Code is showing us what apps may become.

Wednesday | January 21, 2026

Rethinking “pixel perfect” web design

Stop counting pixels. Start building intent.
Volume: 3D OKLCH color picker by Chroma Design Lab, Eldon Loblein

Volume is a professional 3D OKLCH color picker and procedural palette generator for UI and design-system creators.
Cursor for designers guide by Felix Lee

This is the step-by-step guide to build your first web app.
Designing beyond the happy path in design systems by Stéphanie Walter

There are no edge cases. Only cases you haven’t designed for – yet.

Tuesday | January 20, 2026

Using AI as a design engineer by Jakub Krehel

I don't use AI to come up with ideas or to replace my own thinking. I use it to accelerate my workflow.
The 2026 AI design field report (Video) by Stephen Haney, Michael Riddering

Stephen Haney (founder of the new design tool Paper) spent the last few months talking with teams like Shopify, Notion, etc. to find out.
How to get your first users by Ankit Gupta

When you're starting out, it isn’t enough to just build a minimum viable product.
Design tools are the new design deliverables by Luke Wroblewski

AI tools can now generate on-demand assets with built-in brand guidelines.
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS by Martin Alderson

Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.
How Markdown took over the world by Anil Dash

It’s worth understanding how these simple little text files were born.

Monday | January 19, 2026

Design details by Rene Wang

A collection of small details that make big difference.
Astro 6 (beta) by Matthew Phillips

Redesigned development server, significant rendering performance improvements, and new built-in APIs for working with CSP, fonts, and live content collections.
State of UX 2026 by Kate Moran, Raluca Budiu, Sarah Gibbons

Design deeper to differentiate.
The best version of my site so far by Dave Rupert

This redesign opens up a bright future for my site.
Design in code, get praise by Adam Silver

This week I demoed some flows I’d been redesigning to a room full of product managers and stakeholders.
“Code only” props in Figma by Nathan Curtis

This post details a technique for adding “code only props” to Figma components.
The many layers of dependencies in design systems by PJ Onori

Building a design system from absolute scratch is not a small feat.
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by Antirez

Now you can build more and better, if you find your way to use AI effectively.

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