Design at the edges | HeyDesigner Taste is not a feature, The design paradox, AI in design systems, Craft is untouchable, The design engineer symptom, and more.

🚀 Issue 738 is out! This week:

→ Design at the edges
→ Taste is not a feature
→ Craft is untouchable
→ The design engineer symptom
→ Storybook MCP

and more.

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Beyond prototyping | HeyDesigner 10 principles for fluid UI, Taste isn't a screenshot, Designing the AI user experience, Design Systems Report 2026, The great CSS expansion, and more.

🚀 Issue 737 is out! This week:

→ Beyond prototyping
→ 10 principles for fluid UI
→ Design Systems Report 2026
→ The color system I wish I understood sooner
→ Your AI edge is the vocabulary you already have

and more.

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Modal vs. separate page: UX decision tree | HeyDesigner Designing with Claude Code, UI polish skill, Don’t design for average users, Onboarding is a transaction, The product designer's paradox, and more.

🚀 Issue 736 is out! This week:

→ Modal vs. separate page: UX decision tree
→ Designing with Claude Code
→ Emil Kowalski’s UI polish skill
→ Don’t design for average users
→ Onboarding is a transaction
→ The product designer's paradox

and more.

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Make UI feel better | HeyDesigner The last interface, Design process, Durable patterns, Icon component sizes, Breakpoints, The Agent Skills Directory, and more.

🚀 Issue 735 is out! This week:

→ Details that make interfaces feel better
→ The last interface
→ Design process isn't dead, it’s compressed
→ Managing icon component sizes
→ I built 63 design skills for Claude

and more.

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Real-time UI | HeyDesigner UX Components, AI-native product design, UI Design Brain, Introducing Glaze, Beyond the blur, Slots in a Figma library, Agentic UX, and more.

🚀 Issue 734 is out! This week:

→ Real-time UI
→ UX Components (beta)
→ The Minimum Lovable Product era
→ Your design system isn't a style guide anymore
→ UI Design Brain
→ The joy of building slow

and more.

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The design process is dead | HeyDesigner Designing in the age of agents, Designing for clarity, The new era of design, Sprites on the web, The ultimate guide for PMs, and more.

🚀 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.

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My favorite type of designers | HeyDesigner Every designer needs to hear, Claude Code to Figma, Product design is changing, Designing in English, Customising lists with CSS, and more.

🚀 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.

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The new design process | HeyDesigner Life after Figma is coming, Design principles for future AI, Build something silly, The CSS selection, The Creative Act, and more

🚀 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.

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The state of buttons | HeyDesigner Claude Code for designers, Intuitive designer, Design process, Problem framing, Early breakpoint, Agentic engineering, and more.

🚀 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.

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16 pieces of design wisdom | HeyDesigner Agent orchestration UI, The future of UX role, Drag gestures on the web, Introducing ReliCSS, Fundamentals of CSS Layout, and more.

🚀 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.

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Rethinking “pixel perfect” | HeyDesigner The future of design, Figma Slots, Vibe engineering, My opinionated CSS reset, Starting with variables, Notes on not posting, and more.

🚀 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.

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User Interface Wiki | HeyDesigner The invisible work, State of UX, 18 predictions for 2026, Using AI as a design engineer, Designers as agent orchestrators, Astro 6, and more.

🚀 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.

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The rise of the Model Designer | HeyDesigner When design gets louder, Designer's toolkit for Claude Code, From 0 to Minimum Lovable Product, Building a toast component, and more.

🚀 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.

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Friction by design | HeyDesigner How I do web design, Scroll percent, A sharp tool can still ruin the cut, Introducing CSS Grid Lanes and more.

🚀 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.

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The art of vibe design | HeyDesigner A new navigation paradigm, Interface design theories, Design is more than code, Web UX: Study guide, Dialog view transitions, and more.

🚀 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.

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Vibe coding for designers | HeyDesigner MDS’s creative process, Product discovery, Design engineering gap, CSS text-grow, Embrace friction, CSS Wrapped 2025, and more.

🚀 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.

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Design decisions | HeyDesigner Color of the year, Agents for designers, UX patterns, Vanilla CSS, Usability heuristics and AI principles, and more.

🚀 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.

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Reminder for all designers | HeyDesigner Designing menus, Agentic AI interface, Building the v0 iOS app, CSS Subgrid, CSS if statements, Susty Icons, and more.

🚀 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.

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Good visual design | HeyDesigner Design engineering, Shipping too fast, Sameness, Responsive letter spacing, Vibe coding as a designer, Color Palette Pro, and more.

🚀 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.

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5 habits of the worst designers | HeyDesigner Dear young designer, Testing different designs, On creating success, Alternative chat UI layout, My CSS selector strategy, and more.

🚀 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...

True design is better | HeyDesigner Japanese letterforms, UX strategy, The fundamentals problem, Slots in design systems, AI prototyping, Inclusive design, and more.

🚀 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.

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Design’s Github moment | HeyDesigner Branding Superhuman, On Dynamic Island, When design drives behavior, Springs and bounces in native CSS, The mystery of storytelling, and more.

🚀 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.

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Good UX is not enough Raycast for designers, Centering in CSS, Performance management, A solopreneur's guide to pricing yourself, The grug brained designer, and more.

🚀 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/

Product design in 2025 Designing for the eye, How AI changed product design, Liquid glass, A new way to style gaps in CSS, Drawing CSS Shapes using corner-shape, and more.

🚀 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...

State of CSS 2025 Take the State of CSS survey

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Interaction design concepts 34 lessons, Good design is imagination and inspiration, Creating design specs for development, Purposeful vs aesthetic naming, and more.

🚀 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.

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The best interfaces we never built The hamburger-menu icon, Think like a designer, Liquid Glass, On shaping light, Boundaries for designers, A new MVC is emerging and more.

🚀 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...