Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“Imagine your best friend (we’ll call her Mary), had a perfect, infallible memory.
At first, it feels wonderful. She remembers your favorite dishes, obscure movie quotes, even that exact shade of sweater you casually admired months ago. Dinner plans are effortless: “Booked us Giorgio’s again, your favorite — truffle ravioli and Cabernet, like last time,” Mary smiled warmly.
But gradually, things become less appealing. Your attempts at variety or exploring something new are gently brushed aside: “Heard about that new sushi place, should we try it?” you suggest. Mary hesitates, “Remember last year? You said sushi wasn’t really your thing. Giorgio’s is safe. Why risk it?””
To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything →
By Amy Chivavibul
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Editor picks
Let designers think →
How Thinking + Designing need to be practiced outside AI.
By Chris R BeckerWhat we lose when we lose the creative struggle →
How removing friction removes meaning.
By Fabrizia AusielloThe evolution of Youtube →
How every platform evolves into an ad machine.
By Allan MacDonald
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A typographic time-splice of Holborn →
Make me think
Mission, vision, poTAYto, poTAHto →
“By the time the company is large, there are teams of people — probably in marketing — carefully sculpting these things as sentence fragments in large serif fonts on “About Us” pages that no one reads and no one believes. And by no one, I mean not employees, not customers, and not investors. Phrases that sound grand but are just grandiose.”Your URL is your state →
“This got me thinking: how often do we, as frontend engineers, overlook the URL as a state management tool? We reach for all sorts of abstractions to manage state such as global stores, contexts, and caches while ignoring one of the web’s most elegant and oldest features: the humble URL.”You need to become a full stack person →
“But you know what — even if and when that day comes, I still see LLMs as idea implementation vehicles and not a replacement for creativity, agency, and taste. They are not a substitute for craft and actually knowing what you’re talking about, which is what I wanted to write down some ideas on.”
Little gems this week
What designers can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s historical campaign →
By Merilin Ekzarkova
Guiding the future of ethical design →
By Michael Buckley
Everything I know about behavioral design I learned at Orange Julius →
By Sam Liberty
Tools and resources
The color reflex →
Psychology that fires before you think.
By Maxim KichSynthetic developer →
The solo designer’s best friend?
By Anna LefourFrom design to direction →
Bridging product design and AI thinking.
By Bradly Zavakos
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