The five best design links, every weekday

Tuesday05/27

1

uxdesign.cc

Figma’s new grid

Why you must understand CSS Grid as a designer.

2

the-brandidentity.com

Case study: Green, grids, and growth

Konpo’s richly layered revamp of Coachable signals success for engineers.

3

blog.pope.tech

Alt text in the wild

The thought process for writing great alternative text.

4

ohnotype.co

OH NO type company

Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill.

5

lethain.com

Stuff I learned at Carta

Will Larson's learnings from being Carta's CTO for the last couple of years.

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Monday05/26

1

bit.ly

psd.to.design Figma pluginSponsored

Import Photoshop files into Figma with drag-and-drop—fully editable with layers, masks, effects, and pixel-perfect, just like you designed it.

2

internetphonebook.net

Internet phone book

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web.

3

nngroup.com

UX copy sizes: long, short, and micro

Better target user needs by understanding the three sizes of copy: long-form, short-form, and microcopy.

4

figma.com

Material 3 design kit

A comprehensive introduction to the design system, with styles and components to help you get started.

5

made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io

Five attitudes towards climate change

For years, I thought that there were two “sides” to the discussion around climate change. There are way more.

Friday05/23

1

blog.damato.design

Done with components

Component libraries aren’t design systems until people start caring.

2

gt-standard.com

GT Standard

GT Standard is a contemporary response to the modernist pursuit of standardization.

3

cntrl.site

Control: design websites

A tool for design purists: create custom, fully-editable websites in your browser.

4

youtube.com

Organizational scaffolding for accessible design

This talks highlights tools for product management, UX design, web development, and content creation to embed accessibility.

5

baldurbjarnason.com

Foggy feeds

Why is there a decline in everyone's feed reader subscriptions?

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.

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.

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