HeyDesigner

HeyDesigner

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HeyDesigner is the daily reading list for product people, UXers, PMs, and design engineers. πŸ‘‰ https://heydesigner.com Founded and curated by https://tamassari.me | https://bsky.app/profile/tamassari.me

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3804 β†’ Struggle together β†’ I gave my website a boss fight β†’ The system I no longer know by heart β†’ Two kinds of code review β†’ A select should tell you something Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-28/

heydesigner.comStruggle together, and more...Hand-picked design links from October 28, 2026: I gave my website a boss fight, The system I no longer know by heart, Two kinds of code review, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3801 β†’ How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI (video) β†’ Intent Design System β†’ hairline: Line drawings that answer the pointer β†’ How I work β†’ Native masonry layouts with CSS grid lanes Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-23/

heydesigner.comHow to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI (video)Hand-picked design links from October 23, 2026: Intent Design System, hairline: Line drawings that answer the pointer, How I work, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3799 β†’ Design and engineering are the same thing (video) β†’ Scaling the design process β†’ Everyone is starting over β†’ On alignment that looks wrong β†’ The future of CSS Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-21/

heydesigner.comDesign and engineering are the same thing (video)Hand-picked design links from October 21, 2026: Scaling the design process, Everyone is starting over, On alignment that looks wrong, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3795 β†’ Design systems directory β†’ Agentic systems are the future of brands β†’ The best way to use icons in Web UIs β†’ Fit height to background pattern size with calc-size() Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-15/

heydesigner.comDesign systems directory, and more...Hand-picked design links from October 15, 2026: Agentic systems are the future of brands, The best way to use icons in Web UIs, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3793 β†’ Craft: A collection of design engineering concepts β†’ The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 β†’ How to present a proposal to a client (video) β†’ Murmuration for growing design teams β†’ New to the web platform in September Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-13/

heydesigner.comCraft: A collection of design engineering conceptsHand-picked design links from October 13, 2026: The dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27, How to present a proposal to a client (video), and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3791 β†’ Tesler’s Law: Complexity moved to a different part of the journey β†’ Designing Michelangelus β†’ Critique in the AI era β†’ The web needs interactive lists Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-09/

heydesigner.comTesler’s Law: Complexity moved to a different part of the…Hand-picked design links from October 9, 2026: Designing Michelangelus, Critique in the AI era, The web needs interactive lists, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3789 β†’ Chat is AI’s command line β†’ More than a mark β†’ Why icon consistency is harder than it looks β†’ Named breakpoints without Sass β†’ CSS does your tooltip positioning now Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-07/

heydesigner.comChat is AI’s command line, and more...Hand-picked design links from October 7, 2026: More than a mark, Why icon consistency is harder than it looks, Named breakpoints without Sass, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3788 β†’ The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal β†’ What the 500 in blue-500 means β†’ Designing for voice first β†’ Beautiful theme toggles for React, Svelte, and Vue and more. Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-06/

heydesigner.comThe fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond…Hand-picked design links from October 6, 2026: What the 500 in blue-500 means, Designing for voice first, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3785 β†’ Field notes β†’ EmDash 1.0: An open source CMS for Astro β†’ Thinking Orbs: AI status indicator components for React β†’ Improving site performance by shipping more CSS Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-10-01/

heydesigner.comField notes, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3784 β†’ On interfaces that let you change your mind β†’ What does AI-readiness mean in design systems? β†’ We are all product engineers now β†’ Modern web types Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-30/

heydesigner.comOn interfaces that let you change your mind, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3783 β†’ Don't forget to design β†’ A loading state within a loading state β†’ Understanding System One β†’ What happens when you can build it all yourself β†’ Skip the tools, make the outcomes Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-29/

heydesigner.comDon't forget to design, and more...Hand-picked design links from September 29, 2026: A loading state within a loading state, Understanding System One, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3782 β†’ The default is not a design decision β†’ Every color, by family β†’ How is AI changing design? β†’ How AI is changing user research β†’ Context architecture Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-28/

heydesigner.comThe default is not a design decision, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3781 β†’ Aesthetics & Beauty β†’ Design system conventions in Figma β†’ Has your product outgrown its floor plan? β†’ The product strategy isn’t the roadmap β†’ Detect when elements overlap with CSS Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-25/

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

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3780 β†’ Delegative UX: Designing the agent experience β†’ The 3 roles of context for AI agents β†’ AI is a boring technology β†’ Blurry before beautiful: Image previews for the web Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-24/

heydesigner.comDelegative UX: Designing the agent experience, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3778 β†’ Building an independent design practice β†’ On making room for craft β†’ Design tokens need more than semantics β†’ Fluid typography β†’ Jev: the AI that can't write a single word Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-22/

heydesigner.comBuilding an independent design practice, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3777 β†’ You can hand it the rules, not the eye β†’ For the designless β†’ UX context design β†’ Design systems are a collection of decisions β†’ Periodic table of HTML elements Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-21/

heydesigner.comYou can hand it the rules, not the eye, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3774 β†’ The 100 most common UX design methods β†’ The empty heading β†’ Why your numbers look wrong β†’ Not everything needs to be a round rect β†’ Machine-readable design tokens Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-17/

heydesigner.comThe 100 most common UX design methods, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3773 β†’ Designing with AI β†’ The most important product decision is what you don’t build β†’ Better icon and label alignment β†’ Design work survey 2026 β†’ Reading JSON without reading code Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-16/

heydesigner.comDesigning with AI, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3772 β†’ Built by designers: No explanation needed β†’ The invisible side of design engineering β†’ The new DESK β†’ Planning with agents β†’ Getting the words right Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-15/

heydesigner.comBuilt by designers: No explanation needed, and more...Hand-picked design links from September 15, 2026: The invisible side of design engineering, The new DESK, Planning with agents, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3771 β†’ Let's talk about gradients β†’ Rauno's field notes 5 β†’ Build a Design OS β†’ Humane functionalism β†’ My HTML boilerplate β†’ New things you should know about HTML here in mid 2026 Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-14/

heydesigner.comLet's talk about gradients, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3770 β†’ What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste β†’ Too fast to design β†’ Rebuilding research from the ground up β†’ The best dark mode toggle is probably none β†’ Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-11/

heydesigner.comWhat Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste, and more...Hand-picked design links from September 11, 2026: Too fast to design, Rebuilding research from the ground up, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3769 β†’ Design principles vs. the principles of design β†’ How much should you charge for web design (video) β†’ Building data-driven design systems β†’ Building a cloud prototyping environment and more. Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-10/

heydesigner.comDesign principles vs. the principles of design, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3768 β†’ The least wrong colors, version 2 β†’ WCAG accessibility guidelines explorer β†’ AI, tools and transformation β†’ Antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts β†’ AI evals: A hands-on guide for product teams Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-09/

heydesigner.comThe least wrong colors, version 2, and more...Hand-picked design links from September 9, 2026: WCAG accessibility guidelines explorer, AI, tools and transformation, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3767 β†’ Limit the number of details β†’ Figma agent vs. one button β†’ Designing the original Mac icons β†’ AI operating principles β†’ kugiri (εŒΊεˆ‡γ‚Š) Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-08/

heydesigner.comLimit the number of details, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3766 β†’ Notes on visual design β†’ Teaching agents product design at Vercel β†’ Anatomy of AI input β†’ Branding Calendly β†’ Delibra: Design systems library for humans and agents Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-07/

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

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3765 β†’ The Head of Design is not the head of design β†’ AI chat makes software easier, but not faster, to use β†’ Principles for building a design engineering practice β†’ How I design with AI β†’ Little websites everywhere Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-05/

heydesigner.comThe Head of Design is not the head of design, and more...Hand-picked design links from September 5, 2026: AI chat makes software easier, but not faster, to use, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3764 β†’ Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents β†’ Try these 10 skills β†’ DialKit: Tune interfaces in real time β†’ Design system contracts β†’ The four modes of thinking with AI Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-04/

heydesigner.comDesigning Grok Bot for a world of persistent agentsHand-picked design links from September 4, 2026: Try these 10 skills, DialKit: Tune interfaces in real time, Design system contracts, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3763 β†’ Gestalt principles for visual UI design β†’ Looogos: Logo design inspiration β†’ My view on design engineering β†’ CSS is still awesome β†’ eve: The framework for building agents Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-03/

heydesigner.comGestalt principles for visual UI design, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3762 β†’ How we built Interfere’s new website β†’ Designing product simplicity for the agentic AI era β†’ The point of a system is fewer decisions β†’ Rethinking data visualisation and more. Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-02/

heydesigner.comHow we built Interfere’s new website, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3761 β†’ The designer who drew Cursor's icons β†’ How our agents build on-brand pages with design(.)md β†’ The call for an agentic standard β†’ Mesurer: UI inspector and visual feedback β†’ BRRRANDING Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-09-01/

heydesigner.comThe designer who drew Cursor's icons, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3760 β†’ Invisible interfaces β†’ On animating what you can't see β†’ Make your logo brighter than white β†’ The custodial era of UX: Cleaning up after AI β†’ Clarity: AI writing skill and editor Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-08-31/

heydesigner.comInvisible interfaces, 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.

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🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3759 β†’ The rise of design engineering β†’ What component specs leave behind β†’ Styling Linear for the future with StyleX β†’ Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents β†’ vgpu: The WebGPU library, designed for agents. Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-08-28/

heydesigner.comThe rise of design engineering (video), and more...Hand-picked design links from August 28, 2026: What component specs leave behind, Styling Linear for the future with StyleX, and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3758 β†’ Cuelume: Interaction sounds for the web β†’ Design courage (video) β†’ DHH: Future of programming (video) β†’ How well do agents use your design system? β†’ My HTML boilerplate in 2026 Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-08-27/

heydesigner.comCuelume: Interaction sounds for the web, and more...Hand-picked design links from August 27, 2026: Design courage (video), DHH: Future of programming (video), and more.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3757 β†’ The new Instagram logo divides creatives β†’ Design’s legibility gap β†’ Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance β†’ The 4 Hs of HTML β†’ AI coding will prevent expertise Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-08-26/

heydesigner.comThe new Instagram logo divides creatives, 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.

🌞 Today on HeyDesigner β€” NΒΊ 3755 β†’ Scandinavian design: before and after β†’ The critical design engineering manifesto β†’ Design tokens, web components, and CSS @layer β†’ Recursive self-improvement β†’ Is Agentic Read it here πŸ‘‰ heydesigner.com/2026-08-24/

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