The five best design links, every weekday

Friday04/18

1

seangoedecke.com

Engineers who won’t commit

Why remaining non-committal is cowardly (and isn't it the same with design?).

2

youtube.com

General Magic (2018) full documentary

A documentary about a business that Forbes described as the "greatest dead company in Silicon.

3

jillianhess.substack.com

Pablo Picasso’s stunning repetitions

"I picked up my sketchbooks daily, saying to myself: what will I learn of myself that I didn’t know. Je suis le cahier / I am the notebook."

4

pudding.cool

How sonic DNA connects generations of music

Songs have a far more complex and concealed musical history, spanning genres, cultures, and even centuries.

5

notations.xyz

On the impulse to notate

Composed in fragments—written and collected, designed and curated—this catalog resists linear narrative formulas to favor an open poetic syntax.

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Thursday04/17

1

uxdesign.cc

Writing the onboarding experience

How to help a product introduce itself.

2

infiniteshuffle.net

Infinite shuffle

A simple deck of 52 cards can be arranged in more ways than there are atoms on Earth.

3

tempertemper.net

Skip links: what, why, and how

Ever noticed one of those “Skip to main content” links when you press the tab key? They’re important.

4

staysaasy.com

The precise language of good management

In the squishy realm of managing humans, the specific things you say have specific outcomes.

5

christianheilmann.com

The rise of model fatigue

Yet another AI model is being released by Company XYZ that will be a “game changer” and “leaves the others in the dust”.

Wednesday04/16

1

hvpandya.com

How to hire

A more scalable way to access unproven talent before anyone else.

2

peoplesgdarchive.org

People’s graphic design archive

A virtual design archive built by everyone about everyone for everyone.

3

switch-lit.com

Switch-Lit: a collaborative writing app

Two writers take turns crafting chapters of a single story and connect as equals in imagination.

4

microsoft.design

Kermit: a typeface for kids

Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.

5

vitalik.eth.limo

Why I support privacy

Whoever has the information has the power, ergo we need to avoid centralized control over information.

Tuesday04/15

1

kenneth.io

No code is dead — long live vibe coding

No-code didn’t replace code or traditional programming. It didn’t even come close.

2

figma.com

Figma QR code generator

Generate customizable QR codes for URLs, text, Wi-Fi, and more. Download or open in Figma to use in your designs.

3

playchadgpt.com

ChadGPT game

Experience the ultimate showdown against Chad in this unique AI monologue game.

4

framer.com

Framer CM-2

A compact keyboard built to speed up your creative workflow.

5

danmall.com

Becoming indispensable

What murderbots can teach us about client strategy.

Monday04/14

1

hidde.blog

Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron?

The current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias.

2

diataxis.fr

Diátaxis

A widely-adopted, pragmatic and systematic approach to thinking about and creating documentation.

3

hai.stanford.edu

The 2025 AI index report

A report by Stanford HAI on why AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced.

4

animejs.com

Anime.js

A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library.

5

webkit.org

Item flow: a new unified concept for layout

CSS Grid and Flexbox brought incredible layout tools to the web, but they don’t yet do everything a designer might want.

Friday04/11

1

uxdesign.cc

When faces go virally wrong

AI portraiture and the crisis of the profile picture.

2

grantslatton.com

Typo minimizing keyboard

A layout optimization problem, supported by ChatGPT o1-pro.

3

microsoft.design

Comic Sans and the art of imperfection

It’s been dragged, mocked, and meme-ified since the moment it became a household name—and still, it refuses to die.

4

beeps.website

Browser choice is an accessibility consideration

Let people use the browser they want, they probably have good reasons.

5

personalinfocloud.com

20 social roles

They are usually not learned, but come from people performing the roles as it is part of their personality and they see a need and fill that need.

Thursday04/10

1

joshcollinsworth.com

The blissful zen of a good side project

One of life’s greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.

2

github.com

A physical chess board without the concept of turns

In chess, players move in turns, but this introduces a huge latency bug: you spend literally half the time waiting for your opponent...

3

supabase.com

Supabase UI library

A collection of components and blocks built on the shadcn/ui library that connect your front-end to your Supabase back-end via a single command.

4

endler.dev

The best programmers I know

Lately, I asked myself: “What does it take to be one of the best? What do they all have in common?”

5

taylor.town

Be the node you want to see in the network

Within a network, individuals exercise discretion; the sum of rational decisions determine the fate of the network.

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