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  1. Vote in Readymag Websites of the Year 2026

    · bit.ly

    The award spotlights inventive projects made with Readymag, a design tool for creating outstanding websites. Explore the shortlist and vote.

  2. Otherwise you’re just a machine

    · uxdesign.cc

    AI is getting better at design. Designers should too.

  3. What does design system AI readiness mean, anyway?

    · seanvoisen.com

    Maybe it’s less about machine-legible artifacts and more about where humans stay in the loop.

  4. edge-aura

    · edge-aura.js.org

    An organic glow that hugs the edge of your screen. Zero-dependency Canvas 2D engine with a thin React adapter.

  5. Site Seeing

    · ishadeed.com

    See how a web page will behave in different contexts that force unusual viewport sizes.

  6. Everyone is building AI agents. Who’s designing the stop button?

    · uxdesign.cc

    Here’s why the hardest design decisions happen where that autonomy ends.

  7. A sans serif built on oversized round shapes

    · the-brandidentity.com

    Superior Type’s Heaven is a brutalist grotesque built on round shapes that are too big for their space.

  8. Tokenizer Mono

    · george.mand.is

    A monospace font that highlights LLM tokens as you type. No JavaScript, just OpenType substitution rules and a color table.

  9. Attention is all you need

    · longnow.org

    A report from the future on AI, attention, and the maintenance of civilization

  10. A-Frame

    · aframe.io

    A web framework for building virtual reality experiences. Make WebVR with HTML and Entity-Component. Works on Vive, Rift, desktop, mobile.

  11. Great but painful

    · lesswrong.com

    If you want to build a product that people will use, find something that people already do and make it less painful.

  12. Mean

    · mean.app

    Visual handoff for humans and agents. Freeze or record your screen, annotate with gestures, and hand the finished session to a human or AI.

  13. Designing a skill

    · iamnoman.com

    Skills are becoming the apps of the agentic era. What you learn shipping quality software still applies to them.

  14. Nubank: Rebrand

    · koto.com

    Brand redesign and digital foundations built to fight complexity and empower people, with a system that stays unmistakably Nu.

  15. Digital minimalism

    · vitalik.eth.limo

    Being intentional about ways that you access digital technology, making each use a conscious choice.

  16. Pick three

    · buzzusborne.com

    Exploring the hidden cost of producing good, fast and cheap creative work.

  17. Avant Garde

    · avantgarde.110west40th.com

    A seminal, but somewhat overlooked by a wider public, magazine, which broke taboos, rattled some nerves and made a few enemies.

  18. Building an AI-ready design system library

    · uxdesign.cc

    Why my design system starts in code, and how I build, check and maintain the Figma library.

  19. The window with no buttons

    · baselinedesign.com

    Why the terminal feels so unfamiliar to designers, and how to read it anyway.

  20. Paper Mono

    · paper.design

    A beautiful monospace font family with 8 variable weights and coding ligatures, free and open source.

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