The five best design links, every weekday

Thursday05/22

1

andybudd.com

Why AI interviews could be bad for honest designers

Technically? Very slick. But something about the experience left me uneasy.

2

doodad.dev

DOODAD.dev

Reduce the file size of an image… but in a stylish old-school way.

3

fabiensanglard.net

Building my childhood dream PC

Restoring an IBM 2168 and maxing out DOOM.

4

nordicdesign.gallery

Nordic design gallery

Gorgeous web design from the Nordics and their neighbors.

5

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Stack overflow is almost dead

Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month as when it launched back in 2009.

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Wednesday05/21

1

christianheilmann.com

About showing the “open to work” badge

A sign of desperation or a sign of clear communication?

2

hvpandya.com

Products need soul but markets reward scale

How soulful products lose their edge when market realities take over.

3

stitch.withgoogle.com

Stitch by Google: design with AI

Generate UI for mobile and web applications, making design ideation fast and easy.

4

fictionalbrandsarchive.com

Fictional brands archive

A collection of many fictional brands found in films, series and video games.

5

danmall.com

The wheel of nothing

If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.

Tuesday05/20

1

kojo.blog

There should be no AI button

The best UX for AI is seamless and unobtrusive.

2

eatsleepprototype.com

EatSleepPrototype

Collection of Origami prototypes, components, patches.

3

practice-type.com

Practice type

“Practice” is a font made in collaboration with design studio Other Means and type designer Kia Tasbihgou.

4

lux.camera

What is HDR, anyway?

What HDR means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.

5

quarter--mile.com

Human

Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones.

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.

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.

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