The five best design links, every weekday

Monday05/19

1

uxdesign.cc

Figma Config 2025 uses nostalgia for their future in IPO

Here’s what happens when design tools grow up—and grow corporate.

2

css-tricks.com

Email accessibility report 2025

An analysis of 443,585 emails collected from the past year.

3

vvvincent.me

LLMs are making me dumber

Deliberate (?) trade-offs we make for the sake of output speed.

4

neal.fun

Internet roadtrip

An effort by a collective of strangers to operate a car across the streets of North America.

5

socialproofexamples.com

191 social proof examples

Real-world examples of social proof strategies used by various brands to build trust.

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Friday05/16

1

automattic.design

How Auttomatic iterates on UI copy

A behind-the-scenes look at how Automattic designers treat UI copy as a core design element—from first drafts to faster iteration.

2

9ui.dev

9ui

Clean, customizable components built with Base UI and Tailwind CSS.

3

studio.getcartwheel.com

Cartwheel

A powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.

4

ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.com

YCombinator graveyard

A list of all inactive YCombinator startups across 50 industries.

5

printmag.com

A visual study of the NYC subway map

The history of the NYC subway map, from a 1972 beautiful minimalist diagram to a clear and functional navigation tool.

Thursday05/15

1

cta.gallery

CTA gallery

The web’s best Call-to-Actions. For designers, UI/UX experts, and creatives looking for inspiration to craft CTAs that convert.

2

webtui.ironclad.sh

WebTUI

Modular CSS Library that brings the beauty of Terminal UIs to the browser.

3

smashingmagazine.com

Masonry in CSS: should Grid evolve or stand aside

There were duelling proposals floating around for adding support for masonry-style layouts in CSS.

4

avalovelace1.github.io

Generating physically stable LEGO designs

LegoGPT generates a LEGO structure from a user-provided text prompt in an end-to-end manner.

5

lethain.com

Career advice in 2025

I’ve been having too many “2025 is not much fun”-themed career discussions with prior colleagues navigating the current job market.

Wednesday05/14

1

dynomight.net

How to title your blog post or whatever

So you’ve made a thing. Now you gotta choose a classifier.

2

codigolangs.com

Codigo: the programming language repository

Trending programming languages, news, and language details—including code examples.

3

scottvinkle.com

4 ways I use AI as an accessibility specialist

A powerful new ally has emerged in helping teams in creating more inclusive experiences: AI.

4

tvwall.live

Live TV wall

International news channels for personalized viewing.

5

addyo.substack.com

Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development.

Tuesday05/13

1

youtube.com

A conversation with Jony Ive

Designer Sir Jony Ive joins Stripe CEO Patrick Collison for a fireside chat at Stripe Sessions.

2

theguardian.com

Chongqing, the world’s largest city, in pictures

The largest city in the world is as big as Austria, but few people have ever heard of it.

3

playhtml.fun

Fridge poetry

Drag words around to make poems; leave them for others to find later and come back to see how people have changed the fridge.

4

pivot-to-ai.com

Venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more

Venture capital is moribund except AI. AI is moribund except OpenAI. OpenAI is a bit of a scam. Nobody can cash out.

5

mironov.com

The truth about office politics

The frustration with C-level peers doing unexpected or unreasonable or department-centric things.

Monday05/12

1

bit.ly

PDF To Design: from static PDF to editable FigmaSponsored

Convert any PDF into Figma designs, either as fully editable layers, or as pixel-perfect images.

2

blog.hayman.net

From: Steve Jobs. “Great idea, thank you”

The one email I ever got from Steve Jobs.

3

pangrampangram.com

The anatomy of the letterform

Everything comes down to a foundational understanding of the anatomy of the letterform and its essential component.

4

sujankhadgi.com

A portfolio you can listen to

An experiment in turning case studies into conversations—with a little help from AI. By Sujan, a Product Designer at Microsoft.

5

uxdesign.cc

AI-first: did Duolingo make a fatal mistake?

The “AI-first” approach that has caused controversy among users.

Friday05/09

1

theamdash.com

The am dash

Unusable by AI, unmistakably human. A satire.

2

longform.asmartbear.com

Product purgatory

When they love it but still don’t buy, and when even “free” is too expensive.

3

spottedinprod.com

Spotted in prod

The very best of iOS work, from indie developers to big tech.

4

figma.com

Figma plugin: Follow the path

Automatically arrange objects along a vector path with customizable spacing and orientation options.

5

motherdesign.com

Case study: Adobe rebrand

Adobe sought help from Mother Design in rethinking and codifying its brand system.

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