🚀 Issue 733 is out! This week:
→ The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it (video)
→ A real space to design in the age of agents
→ Designing for clarity
→ The new era of design at Stripe (video)
→ On adding homepage delight
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/t...
🚀 Issue 732 is out! This week:
→ My favorite type of designers
→ A private conversation every designer needs to hear
→ The MCP tool that's changing how I use Figma
→ Product design is changing
→ The salad bar theory of UX professionalism
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/f...
🚀 Issue 731 is out! This week:
→ The new design process
→ Life after Figma is coming
→ Design principles for future AI
→ What design leaders must unlearn
→ Design systems checklist
→ The CSS selection
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/t...
🚀 Issue 730 is out! This week:
→ The state of buttons
→ Claude Code for designers
→ Why designers can no longer trust the design process
→ NotebookLM for Product Designers
→ Figma variables still don’t understand systems
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/t...
🚀 Issue 729 is out! This week:
→ 16 pieces of design wisdom
→ Agent orchestration UI
→ The future of UX roles
→ Drag gestures on the web
→ Introducing ReliCSS
→ Understanding the fundamentals of CSS Layout
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/1...
🚀 Issue 728 is out! This week:
→ Rethinking “pixel perfect” web design
→ On coding agents and the future of design
→ How vibe engineering is flipping product design
→ Gas town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/r...
🚀 Issue 727 is out! This week:
→ User Interface Wiki
→ The invisible work
→ 18 predictions for 2026
→ State of UX 2026
→ Using AI as a design engineer
→ Design details
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/u...
🚀 Issue 726 is out! This week:
→ The rise of the Model Designer
→ When design gets louder, it also gets fragile
→ It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
→ Context-based design systems
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/m...
🚀 Issue 725 is out! This week:
→ Friction by design
→ A sharp tool can still ruin the cut
→ How I do web design
→ The cost of consistency
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/f...
🚀 Issue 724 is out! This week:
→ The art of vibe design
→ A new navigation paradigm
→ Design is more than code
→ Interface design theories
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/a...
🚀 Issue 723 is out! This week:
→ Vibe coding for designers
→ Sneak peek of MDS’s creative process
→ Make it ugly, for clients
→ 0 → 1 product discovery
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/v...
🚀 Issue 722 is out! This week:
→ Articulating design decisions
→ Why stealing design works
→ Stop asking users what they want
→ Bad UX design patterns
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/d...
🚀 Issue 721 is out! This week:
→ A cruel reminder for all designers
→ How we built the v0 iOS app
→ Designing effective contextual menus
→ Agentic AI interface improvements
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/r...
🚀 Issue 720 is out! This week:
→ Good visual design, explained
→ The Rosetta Stone of design engineering
→ The hidden cost of shipping too fast
→ In the sea of sameness
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/g...
🚀 Issue 719 is out! This week:
→ The 5 habits of the worst designers
→ Dear young designer, Part II
→ An alternative chat UI layout
→ My CSS selector strategy
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/5...
🚀 Issue 718 is out! This week:
→ True design is better than new design
→ Japanese letterforms
→ The fundamentals problem
→ Six key components of UX strategy
→ Slots in design systems
→ Designing Perplexity
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/t...
🚀 Issue 717 is out! This week:
→ Design’s Github moment by Drew Wilson, Michael Riddering
→ Branding Superhuman by Smith & Diction
→ On Dynamic Island by Shu Ding
→ The mystery of storytelling by Matthias Ott
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/d...
🚀 Issue 707 is out! This week:
→ Why “Good UX” isn’t enough
→ A solopreneur’s guide to pricing yourself
→ Respectful performance management
→ Another article about centering in CSS
→ Raycast for designers
→ The grug brained designer
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/n/good-ux/
🚀 Issue 701 is out! This week:
→ Product design in 2025
→ Designing for the eye
→ Liquid glass, fragile UX, and why I wanted 2 weeks before writing about it
→ How AI changed product design
→ A new way to style gaps in CSS
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/n/product-de...
Still a week left to take the State of CSS survey!
The survey hasn't got as many responses as last year, so any help sharing will be much appreciated :)
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🚀 Issue 700 is out! This week:
→ Every interaction design concept
→ 34 lessons
→ Good design is imagination and inspiration
→ Deep dive into Uber’s Design Systems
→ Purposeful vs aesthetic naming
→ Prompt to code
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/n/interactio...
🚀 Issue 699 is out! This week:
→ The best interfaces we never built
→ The hamburger-menu icon today
→ Think like a designer
→ On shaping light
→ Partial keyframes
→ Writing and walking
and more.
Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/n/best-inter...
