See Your Struggles ⨀ from the Outside
:Design, 10/6/2026
:Design
🧡 #Bitcoin, since then. ⚡️𝙻𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐? 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑒! [email protected] 🔮 𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚛? 𝑌𝑒𝑠! [email protected] 🌐 https://stacker.news/~Design/r/deSign_r
Redefine Success ⨀ Move the Compass
:Design, 9/17/2026
Memory Analysis ⨀ The past is always changing.
:Design, 9/14/2026
EditUI
Point at your UI. Tell your coding agent what to change.
https://stacker.news/items/1599673/r/deSign_r
#Tools #AI
Toolcraft
An open-source starter kit and UI library for building custom design apps with AI.
https://stacker.news/items/1599609/r/deSign_r
#Creativity #Tools #UX
AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects
If AI is so great, why aren’t we seeing an explosion of new, amazing software products?
https://stacker.news/items/1599525/r/deSign_r
#AI #Programming #Trends
Your product is not the center of the universe
Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them.
https://stacker.news/items/1599421/r/deSign_r
#ProductManagement #UX #Reflections
Logo.dev MCP server
Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, or any MCP client to Logo.dev, and let your agent look up brands, logos, and brandmarks.
https://stacker.news/items/1598893/r/deSign_r
#Branding #Resources #AI
10/20/2026, 1 engagement
Acceptance
If you haven’t accepted that these things are smarter than you, even in your own domain of expertise, I’m sorry.
https://stacker.news/items/1598825/r/deSign_r
#AI #Career #Reflections
State of Ecommerce Accessibility 2026
An audit of 59,400 ecommerce product pages. 64% had at least one automatically detected accessibility failure rated critical.
https://stacker.news/items/1598753/r/deSign_r
#Accessibility #Resources
Design in the material you ship
Designers should understand code the way an architect understands stone: what it can do, not how to cut it. AI now does the cutting.
https://stacker.news/items/1598705/r/deSign_r
#Craft #UX
10/20/2026, 2 engagements
Techno-optimism archive
Old promises of new technologies.
https://stacker.news/items/1598256/r/deSign_r
#Technology #History
Someone behind the software
I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.
https://stacker.news/items/1598209/r/deSign_r
#Programming #UX #Craft
English ↔ Claudish
A bidirectional English and Claudish translator powered by compiled 0.6B neural programs.
https://stacker.news/items/1598140/r/deSign_r
#AI #Humor #Tools
Beautiful icons that make products feel premium
Hugeicons offers 60,000+ icons across 10 styles for Figma, React, Font, and more. Fully customizable, beautifully crafted.
https://stacker.news/items/1598069/r/deSign_r
#Icons #Resources #UI
12 CSS features you can use today with no build step
Modern CSS features that replace Sass, PostCSS plugins and JavaScript hacks.
https://stacker.news/items/1597579/r/deSign_r
#CSS #Programming
The lie we keep telling ourselves about regulating AI
The excuse for not regulating AI is that nobody can agree how. The people who built the internet would find that laughable.
https://stacker.news/items/1597508/r/deSign_r
#AI #Politics #Industry
Do frameworks matter anymore?
How abstractions constrain AI agents, helping engineering teams evaluate long-term web architecture choices.
https://stacker.news/items/1597436/r/deSign_r
#Programming #AI
How to de-slopify your designs
Tips for anyone who vibecodes.
https://stacker.news/items/1597408/r/deSign_r
#AI #Craft #UX
Anatomy
A Claude skill that draws an idea as the real machine that does it: a live isometric figure you can turn, press and read.
https://stacker.news/items/1597098/r/deSign_r
#AI #Resources #Illustration
Imperfection
If you're reading this, I regret to inform you that I finally published an update to my personal site. I guess I made it.
https://stacker.news/items/1597034/r/deSign_r
#Career #CaseStudy #Reflections
10/17/2026, 1 engagement
The “disability dongle”: Why Silicon Valley hates me and you
Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake.
https://stacker.news/items/1596994/r/deSign_r
#Accessibility #Reflections #Technology
Prompt Motion
A collection of motion videos made with Claude Opus 5.5, with the prompts and skills behind them.
https://stacker.news/items/1596970/r/deSign_r
#MotionDesign #Resources #AI
117 CSS text effects & animations
Glitch, neon, gradient, typewriter, 3D and more. Pure CSS, no JavaScript. Copy & paste the code.
https://stacker.news/items/1596671/r/deSign_r
#CSS #Resources
10/16/2026, 1 engagement
117 CSS text effects & animations
Glitch, neon, gradient, typewriter, 3D and more. Pure CSS, no JavaScript. Copy & paste the code.
https://stacker.news/items/1596552/r/deSign_r
#CSS #Resources
Pure UI in the Agentic Era
I stopped thinking of UI as event handlers that change the DOM and started thinking of it as a snapshot of data at a point in time.
https://stacker.news/items/1596490/r/deSign_r
#AI #UI #UX
Design owns coherence
There exists an actual business problem that the C-suite now acknowledges, but no function has stepped up to address it.
https://stacker.news/items/1596448/r/deSign_r
#UX #Business
We read 102 EU shop accessibility statements
What EU online shops actually write in their accessibility statements, counted.
https://stacker.news/items/1596042/r/deSign_r
#Accessibility #Resources
The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
Researching the different docks in macOS through the years and compiling them all into a single graphic.
https://stacker.news/items/1595980/r/deSign_r
#History #UI
10/15/2026, 1 engagement
The case against JPEG XL
Investigating JPEG XL’s place as a Web image codec.
https://stacker.news/items/1595881/r/deSign_r
#Performance #UX
What the AI era owes you
No one is going to save your career from AI.
https://stacker.news/items/1595823/r/deSign_r
#AI #UX #Career
Inside Anthropic’s design team
How Anthropic’s design team is adapting to a widening velocity gap between eng and design.
https://stacker.news/items/1595343/r/deSign_r
#UX #Interview
Energy icons
Open-source icon library for the renewable energy and energy-transition sector. Two optical masters, scaled — never redrawn.
https://stacker.news/items/1595283/r/deSign_r
#Icons #Resources
A flame needs three sine waves
How a few pencil sketches turned into a matchstick you can strike, and why the flicker needed three sine waves instead of one.
https://stacker.news/items/1595188/r/deSign_r
#Illustration #Craft
Grieving the loss of details
Over the course of a year, I went from having a planned future to worrying about applying for disability.
https://stacker.news/items/1595130/r/deSign_r
#Career #Programming #Reflections
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
https://stacker.news/items/1594835/r/deSign_r
#History #Internet #Technology
Native page transitions on the web
Router-agnostic page transitions for React, Svelte, Vue, Solid, Angular, and Qwik.
https://stacker.news/items/1594805/r/deSign_r
#Resources #UI #Programming
Designing Michelangelus
Inside the making of Michelangelus, a contemporary serif shaped by handwriting, architecture, and stone.
https://stacker.news/items/1594752/r/deSign_r
#Typography #CaseStudy
The convergence of design
You don't have to squint to see the pattern... but why?
https://stacker.news/items/1594716/r/deSign_r
#Trends #History
10/13/2026, 1 engagement
In defense of the detour
On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.
#AI #Creativity #Craft
Archived here https://archive.is/IHq6q
In defense of the detour
On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.
https://stacker.news/items/1594481/r/deSign_r
#AI #Creativity #Craft
Is Meta’s new AI agent easier to trust because it’s cute?
Muse comes with an avatar you design and a keyring gadget. Few people would hand Meta their passwords, yet it topped the US App Store.
https://stacker.news/items/1594475/r/deSign_r
#AI #UX
Today's Best Website Design :: Neutomni by Neutomni
A bold, editorial portfolio for Neutomni, a Digital Design & Webflow studio, blending striking typography with playful retro UI to showcase custom brand and website work.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1594473
Technologies & Tools: #DesignAgencies #Web #Interactive #Animation #Retro #Scrolling #Typography #Storytelling #FooterDesign #GSAP #Webflow #Figma
10/13/2026, 1 engagement
Agents don’t need memory. They need documentation.
Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.
https://stacker.news/items/1594469/r/deSign_r
#AI #UX #Programming
Daily Designer Quote #0045 ∙ Yves Béhar
“Our process is never about splattering the world of possibilities on the wall and showing a client, oh, these are the 20 different ways this can be done. What we do instead is we pick one thing that we think would be really extraordinary.” — Yves Béhar
Worth building
What changes when a tool doesn’t have to pay for itself.
https://stacker.news/items/1593555/r/deSign_r
#ProductManagement #Productivity #AI
Fluid functionalism
Open source UI components with satisfying hover.
https://stacker.news/items/1593504/r/deSign_r
#UI #Resources
Decorative images aren’t a thing
Adding an image to a design, email, document, page, app, etc. is done for a reason.
https://stacker.news/items/1593438/r/deSign_r
#Accessibility #UX
The designer’s constitution
A model for rethinking what makes a designer in the age of AI.
https://stacker.news/items/1593325/r/deSign_r
#AI #Craft #UX #Career
10/11/2026, 1 engagement
Daily Designer Quote #0044 ∙ Zaha Hadid
“Space is supposed to enrich your life... that's why the public domain is very important — because not everybody has luxurious places to live. That's why schools should be very interesting. Libraries, theaters, museums.” — Zaha Hadid
10/11/2026, 1 engagement
Sidebranch: worktree visual diffing
Review PRs from inside your running app: switch branches from an in-page widget and compare worktrees side by side.
https://stacker.news/items/1592805/r/deSign_r
#Programming #Tools
Many agents, many views
You manage agents, they manage more agents, and those agents manage even more agents.
https://stacker.news/items/1592735/r/deSign_r
#AI #Productivity #UX
Design is a nice-to-have
I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.
https://stacker.news/items/1592683/r/deSign_r
#Career #UX #Reflections
Bringing warmth and fun to São Paulo’s bars and restaurants
References, details and techniques being deployed by Brazilian design studios to bring playfulness and nostalgia to the city’s streets.
https://stacker.news/items/1592641/r/deSign_r
#Graphicdesign #Branding
Field Notes: Design Outcomes
Tactics from the best design teams and individuals working today, with notes on how the work got made.
https://stacker.news/items/1592286/r/deSign_r
#UX #Resources
10/9/2026, 1 engagement
A design system is what it does
A comparison of how two design systems handle the humble text component.
https://stacker.news/items/1592216/r/deSign_r
#DesignSystems #UX
Creative Intelligence Report
We surveyed 150k+ working creatives to explore how AI is changing creative work.
https://stacker.news/items/1592168/r/deSign_r
#Creativity #Research #Resources
AI invasive design
We can all agree ”AI native“ is a little bit bullshit, but does it have to be so dystopian?
https://stacker.news/items/1592057/r/deSign_r
#AI #UX #Reflections
Today's Best Website Design :: Maria Vasilyeva Portfolio by Maria Vasilyeva
Interactive designer portfolio inspired by music and sound, where rhythm, typography, layout, interactions and animation come together to create a dynamic and immersive experience.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1591801
Technologies & Tools: #Other #Promotional #Web #Interactive #Animation #NavigationMenu #Portfolio #Typography #InteractionDesign #UIdesign #CSS #WebGL #Sanity
Daily Designer Quote #0043 ∙ Neri Oxman
“Architects have been trained to think about their designs in terms of assemblies of discrete parts made of homogeneous materials, but we know that nature doesn't operate this way.” — Neri Oxman
Chat is AI’s command line
AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.
https://stacker.news/items/1591524/r/deSign_r
#AI #UX
Agentic systems are the future of brands
Agentic Brand Systems, a Little Plains research note.
https://stacker.news/items/1591387/r/deSign_r
#AI #Branding #DesignSystems
12 axes
A complete, free political quiz: find your political ideology, compatible country and political figure across 12 axes.
https://stacker.news/items/1591336/r/deSign_r
#Politics #Resources
What creative ideas have you been rambling on?
Emerging patterns: design leadership in 2026
Findings from nearly 120 design leaders — pathways, mentorship, portfolio careers, tooling, and the human qualities of leadership.
https://stacker.news/items/1590926/r/deSign_r
#Career #Leadership #Resources
Today's Best Website Design :: twks by twks
Independent creative agency based in Geneva since 2011. We partner with local and international brands and institutions to build their brand, digital presence and campaigns.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1590849
Technologies & Tools: #DesignAgencies #Portfolio #Typography #Gallery #InteractionDesign #ContactPage #Microinteractions #Figma
supratic just shared "Nostrasia 2026" and it's a solid read for anyone into design. Always refreshing to see people put real thought into their work. https://stacker.news/items/1590690/r/deSign_r #design #art #designstr
10/7/2026, 1 engagement
Today's Best Website Design :: twks by twks
Independent creative agency based in Geneva since 2011. We partner with local and international brands and institutions to build their brand, digital presence and campaigns.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1590785
Technologies & Tools: #DesignAgencies #Portfolio #Typography #Gallery #InteractionDesign #ContactPage #Microinteractions #Figma
F*cking good libraries
A browsable semantic library for creative development resources.
https://stacker.news/items/1590772/r/deSign_r
#Resources #UI #Programming
Daily Designer Quote #0042 ∙ Simone Giertz
“If you think about how a lot of the education system is… You first learn the tools and then maybe you get to apply them on ideas. Sometimes you might not even get to the ideas.” — Simone Giertz
On being anything other than a designer
There’s that person in your job who is the one people call for all kinds of tasks that only “they can do.”
https://stacker.news/items/1590655/r/deSign_r
#Career #Reflections #UX
Leadership folios
Portfolios from design managers, directors, VPs, and executives, each annotated with what it shows, why it works at that level, and what to steal.
https://stacker.news/items/1590215/r/deSign_r
#Leadership #Portfolios #Resources
Prompting as self-portrait
AI installed a distorted mirror where the blank page used to be.
https://stacker.news/items/1590166/r/deSign_r
#AI #Reflections #Career
Daily Designer Quote #0041 ∙ Robert Brunner
“The process of purchasing it maybe at the Apple Store, getting it in that wonderful box, turning it on, experiencing the interface, creating content, connecting with your family and friends — then it becomes an iPhone.” — Robert Brunner
Today's Best Website Design :: Lidar Drone Scanning by Riotters
A Riotters R&D experiment turning raw drone LIDAR scans into a real-time 3D point cloud, rendered live in the browser with WebGL.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1589619
Technologies & Tools: #DesignAgencies #Technology #Web #Interactive #Animation #Transitions #Storytelling #3D #GesturesInteraction #Microinteractions #WebGL #Threejs #Nextjs
How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al
As AI makes it easier to build, how do we keep products from becoming generic “zombie UI”?
https://stacker.news/items/1589431/r/deSign_r
#Creativity #Talks #AI
10/5/2026, 1 engagement
Google has the best AI money can buy. Its products still feel broken.
Google’s AI-era products keep breaking an old trust contract with users, and the model isn’t the reason.
https://stacker.news/items/1589152/r/deSign_r
#AI #ProductManagement #UX
Daily Designer Quote #0040 ∙ Natasha Jen
“Methodology somehow has become the idea itself — that itself is really troubling because methodology is kind of empty, a vessel that should be different to different situations” — Natasha Jen
A loading state within a loading state
Loading is a complex space, where sometimes the most natural solution is a bad one.
https://stacker.news/items/1589029/r/deSign_r
#UX #Performance
Kontext shared "Open Source Culture Creator Contest #3" and it's well worth your time. Clean, considered, well executed. https://stacker.news/items/1588419/r/deSign_r #design #plebchain #grownostr
Amazing glass
Glass that bends the page behind it. Liquid glass web components for HTML, React and Vue, tuned pixel by pixel against Apple’s own renderer.
https://stacker.news/items/1588417/r/deSign_r
#Graphicdesign #UI #Resources
Today's Best Website Design :: EDOLUS by Yann Trevelot / Vertex3D
A cinematic WebGL journey into AI infrastructure. Pushing the limits of real-time 3D, immersive UX, and dynamic sound design. Engineered by Vertex3D.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1588327
Technologies & Tools: #Music #Sound #Technology #Experimental #Animation #Storytelling #3D #InteractionDesign #WebGL #GSAP #GLSL
Daily Designer Quote #0039 ∙ Christoph Niemann
“What does it take to come up with a really great idea? It's really 87% effort — it's like sitting there banging your head against the table... There's 7.5% luck.” — Christoph Niemann
What your phone is made of
The mined materials in a mobile phone, and which countries produced each of them in 2025, from U.S. Geological Survey data.
https://stacker.news/items/1588271/r/deSign_r
#Industry #DataVisualization
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account?
https://stacker.news/items/1588213/r/deSign_r
#Programming #Career
10/4/2026, 1 engagement
The WebGPU library, designed for agents
Fullscreen shaders, compute pipelines, raw WebGPU interop, and read-only source files compiled directly by this docs app.
https://stacker.news/items/1587831/r/deSign_r
#AI #UI #Resources
Today's Best Website Design :: Tengile Malamala Collection by DashDigital
An immersive experience showcasing Tengile MalaMala's quiet luxury through cinematic storytelling and refined editorial design, bringing Africa's iconic wilderness to life.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1587692
Technologies & Tools: #HotelRestaurant #Socialresponsibility #Luxury #BigBackgroundImages #MenuHorizontal #Storytelling #Photo #Video #UIdesign #Microinteractions #React #Sanity #AWS
State of Devs 2026
Nearly half of this year's survey respondents had experienced job insecurity and insufficient wages.
https://stacker.news/items/1587624/r/deSign_r
#Career #Programming
10/3/2026, 2 engagements
Daily Designer Quote #0038 ∙ Susan Kare
“Software... you can change it even over time, you can go back and change it and you can get a wider audience... even if it doesn't have your name on it.” — Susan Kare
Modern web types
TypeScript intentionally doesn’t support all new APIs, but there’s an easy fix.
https://stacker.news/items/1587581/r/deSign_r
#Typography #Resources
Blume
The open-source docs framework for humans and agents. Drop Markdown into a folder and ship a fast docs site.
https://stacker.news/items/1587264/r/deSign_r
#Tools #Programming
10/2/2026, 1 engagement
Today's Best Website Design :: Milledollars by Magnetism
Milledollars is a creative bureau focused on high-end video production.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1587144
Technologies & Tools: #Film #TV #Animation #UIdesign #Contentful #GSAP #Vuejs
"Babylon Stören, South Africa - Business Model Design Breakdown" by Ginepro_Co. Solid work, worth sharing with this community. https://stacker.news/items/1586905/r/deSign_r #plebchain #design #grownostr #creativity
Thinking orbs
A React component library of well-crafted, animated orbs for AI: thinking, searching, compacting and more status indicators. Free, open source.
https://stacker.news/items/1587090/r/deSign_r
#Resources #Animation
Daily Designer Quote #0037 ∙ Muriel Cooper
“The difference between going into a bookstore and browsing, and the fact of reading are two very different but very, very critical ways of gathering information.” — Muriel Cooper
What happens when you can build it all yourself
What speed is doing to my expectations, my attention and the case for startup funding.
https://stacker.news/items/1587024/r/deSign_r
#Reflections #Productivity
Agent skill: Libraries.dev
Teach your coding agent Border beam, Thinking orbs, Gooey, Voice, Bot avatars, Liquid metal and Image.
https://stacker.news/items/1586446/r/deSign_r
#AI #Craft #Resources
Today's Best Website Design :: Colonia Zacamil by Adoratorio Studio
Colonia Zacamil is a place where public art, community co-design and sustainable development converge.
See details https://stacker.news/items/1586340
Technologies & Tools: #Art #Illustration #Institutions #Socialresponsibility #3D #WebGL #Threejs #Vuejs
"Block Launches Its First Ever Bitcoin Consumer Advertising Campaign" by supratic. Solid work, worth sharing with this community. https://stacker.news/items/1586282/r/deSign_r #plebchain #design #grownostr #creativity
10/1/2026, 1 engagement
I can’t tell who’s teaching who anymore
On inheriting my mum’s sentences, and watching them read as a machine’s.
https://stacker.news/items/1586275/r/deSign_r
#Reflections #Writing
10/1/2026, 1 engagement
Daily Designer Quote #0036 ∙ Debbie Millman
“You have to decide what is more important: doing something and fearing that rejection and fearing the failure, or having regretted not having done it. Which would you rather die of?” — Debbie Millman
Google's 3D emoji design process
How Google brought 3,977 Noto emoji into 3D.
https://stacker.news/items/1586167/r/deSign_r
#CaseStudy #3D
Found a good one: "Lightning Pay Kit - helps customers figure out how to pay their first invoice" by k00b. Really well thought out. Sharing it here for the design crowd. https://stacker.news/items/1585238/r/deSign_r #design #creativity #nostr #plebchain