Hand-picked design links from October 5, 2026: Training AI to paint with code, Design is a nice-to-have, Google Fonts superfamilies, and more.

Hand-picked design links from October 2, 2026: Design systems for AI agents, Beyond productivity: Designing space for creativity, and more.

Hand-picked design links from October 1, 2026: EmDash 1.0: An open source CMS for Astro, Thinking Orbs: AI status indicator components for React, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 30, 2026: What does AI-readiness mean in design systems?, We are all product engineers now, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 29, 2026: A loading state within a loading state, Understanding System One, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 28, 2026: Every color, by family, How is AI changing design?, How AI is changing user research, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 25, 2026: Design system conventions in Figma, Has your product outgrown its floor plan?, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 24, 2026: The 3 roles of context for AI agents, AI is a boring technology, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 23, 2026: Metaphors, Loading, made beautiful, 12 CSS features you can use today with no build step, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 22, 2026: On making room for craft, Design tokens need more than semantics, Fluid typography, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 21, 2026: For the designless, UX context design, Design systems are a collection of decisions, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 19, 2026: That crisp interface is going to date, Brand as software, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 18, 2026: The workaround is often the requirement, Incremental complexity, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 17, 2026: The empty heading, Why your numbers look wrong, Not everything needs to be a round rect, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 16, 2026: The most important product decision is what you don’t build, Better icon and label alignment, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 15, 2026: The invisible side of design engineering, The new DESK, Planning with agents, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 14, 2026: Rauno's field notes #5, Build a Design OS, Humane functionalism, My HTML boilerplate, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 11, 2026: Too fast to design, Rebuilding research from the ground up, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 10, 2026: How much should you charge for web design (video), Building data-driven design systems, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 9, 2026: WCAG accessibility guidelines explorer, AI, tools and transformation, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 8, 2026: Figma agent vs. one button, Designing the original Mac icons, AI operating principles, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 7, 2026: Teaching agents product design at Vercel, Anatomy of AI input, Branding Calendly, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 5, 2026: AI chat makes software easier, but not faster, to use, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 4, 2026: Try these 10 skills, DialKit: Tune interfaces in real time, Design system contracts, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 3, 2026: Looogos: Logo design inspiration, My view on design engineering, CSS is still awesome, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 2, 2026: Designing product simplicity for the agentic AI era, The point of a system is fewer decisions, and more.

Hand-picked design links from September 1, 2026: How our agents build on-brand pages with design.md, The call for an agentic standard, and more.

Hand-picked design links from August 31, 2026: On animating what you can't see, Make your logo brighter than white, and more.

Hand-picked design links from August 28, 2026: What component specs leave behind, Styling Linear for the future with StyleX, and more.

Hand-picked design links from August 27, 2026: Design courage (video), DHH: Future of programming (video), and more.

Hand-picked design links from August 26, 2026: Design’s legibility gap, Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance, The 4 Hs of HTML, and more.

Hand-picked design links from August 25, 2026: On unfurling interfaces, The AI interface museum, Creative clarity, and more.

Hand-picked design links from August 24, 2026: The critical design engineering manifesto, Design tokens, web components, and CSS @layer, and more.

This is the best time in history to be a designer (video), Cards: How a 3×5 rectangle conquered screen design, Designing memory, The new product designer, and why we’re getting it wrong (video)

Protecting the thinking behind great design (video), Let your designs fail for the right reasons, AI is lying to us, and nobody seems to care, Building a custom prototyping playground (video)

Design bookmarks, You don't have a design system, Dark mode toggles: two states are enough, The case for tri-state dark mode toggles

Early preview of the /design command in Claude Code, Creative technologists are moving from the margins to the center, Kernel: Semantic HTML components for React and Web Components, Shading motion

Interface cheat sheet, The case for spec-driven design, Spec-driven UI component development, Taste changes the maker

The making of Cursor's icons, A forgotten quality, Books for people who want to work on hard problems, Agent behavior

Morphicons: Morph any SVG icon into any other, Designing the first five minutes, Claude Code 101, for designers, If you build it, they probably won’t come

Beautiful UI: Crafted primitives for AI-native interfaces, Keeping type consistent in changing conditions, Liquid Gooey: Liquid effects for React UI, Agentic code quality

State of AI in design systems, The best prioritization is no prioritization, Why I built a semantic-HTML first library, Dynamic colour schemes with modern CSS

Friction as a feature, Building design system components with agent teams, The prototype was a beautiful lie, Design work isn’t vague. Our measurement is

A design language is more than a visual theme, The hierarchy of competence, Bottle your judgment and make it outlive you, Got no time for PRD

The naked designer, 76 open research questions in AI usability, Novelty, Defining ethical design for machines

The "AI can do the UX" mistake, How to test a Figma Design System with Claude Code and figma-cli, Agent-native coding environments, Claude Cowork for designers

The plateau of sad gray icons, Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers (video), 10 GUI design elements, On layout choreography, and more.

The last product design tool, No new name has replaced “UX”, The end of the indie hacker playbook, 3D CSS guide

Designing for the proxy, Asana’s fascinating tab shortcuts, Designing with code, Weighing the business case for quality

The plateau of sad gray icons, Everyone's work is starting to look the same, On giving AI taste, Ideas are cheap. Invention is not