HeyDesigner — Hand-picked Design Links, Daily

Monday | December 8, 2025

Icons in menus everywhere by Jim Nielsen

I’ve never liked the philosophy of “put an icon in every menu item by default”.
AI coding agents for designers by Luke Wroblewski

Here's how AI coding agents can also help designers.
10 usability heuristics and AI principles by Matthew Soriano

Master Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics and AI agentic design principles through interactive examples.
AI is reshaping UX by Andrew Tipp

What do the last five years of academic research tell us about how design is changing?
CSS text-grow by Adam Argyle

Fit width text in 1 line of CSS.
Vanilla CSS is all you need by Rob Zolkos

No Sass. No PostCSS. No build tools.
Prompt to design interfaces by Huei-Hsin Wang

Why vague prompts fail and how to fix them.
HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 by Manuel Matuzović

An article, talk, or tool that focuses on HTML every day until Christmas.

Friday | December 5, 2025

Bad UX design patterns by Clayton Dewey, Stacy Kvernmo, Sondra Eby

Managing complex navigation.
Composability over inheritance by Adam Sedwick

Using composability over inheritance to scale design systems.
Masonry by Patrick Brosset

Things you won’t need a library for anymore.
Baseline in action by Chrome for Developers

A collection of articles and demos showing you some of what's possible with features that are now Baseline.
Public design systems are worth it by PJ Onori

Public design systems are our marketplace of ideas.

Thursday | December 4, 2025

Design dogma you must unlearn by Scott Berkun

These false beliefs are holding you back.
Design maturity by Dan Ramsden

Why you need design maturity in a product organisation, and how to get it.
What do Figma’s updates mean for Design Systems? by Allie Paschal

A shift towards token-first and AI-assisted systems.
Using CSS to fix the irradiation illusion by Adam Argyle

How to adjust perceived font weight in dark mode without layout shift.

Wednesday | December 3, 2025

Articulating design decisions by Arkadiusz Radek

About making thoughtful decisions and defending design rationale.
UX is your moat (and you’re ignoring it) by Christina Wodtke

Your moat isn’t your model. Your moat is whether users feel at home.
Designing design systems by Dominik Dorfmeister

What makes a good design system.
Beyond components by Derek Niedringhaus

Designing for meaning in an agent-assisted era.

Tuesday | December 2, 2025

Why stealing design works by Felix Lee

99% of designers still get this wrong (and blame others for it).
Feedback doesn't scale by Another Rodeo

Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale.
The planning paradox by Mike Watson

How the act of planning drives teams to launch while the plan itself becomes obsolete.
Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open by Geoff Graham

Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior.

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