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✦ICYMI folders are here✦Website Inspiration: Depo Budget App✦Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong✦Design’s dreaded phrase is coming back. This time we’re in control.✦The CSS hack that extends your website on iOS Safari✦Figma Motion basics: Easing✦1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed✦Website Inspiration: luis kantor✦Website Inspiration: ScreenTune✦Let your designs fail for the right reasons✦State of AI in Design Systems✦Beautiful UI✦I’m leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park✦State of CSS 2026✦Exploring Procedural Geometry with Three.js and WebGPU
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Top storyThinking·4 Aug

You’re Using Claude Design Wrong

Claude Design is often misunderstood as a tool for generating final designs, rather than a tool for quick ideation.

UX Planet
5 min read

In this edition

Stories from Tuesday, 4 August 2026

AI & Tools
Hugging Face
AI

Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B

Hugging Face developed LFM2.5-2.6B, a small, fast agentic model enabling on-device AI deployment for various hardware, supporting tool calling and multi-step workflows with competitive performance.

4 Aug·5 min read
Lenny's Newsletter
Product

What if you’re not supposed to have a long-term plan?

Careers can develop through emergence, a process where multiple parts form a complex whole without a clear plan or intention.

4 Aug·14 min read
Import AI
AI

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

Researchers built a self-sustaining AI virus that uses large language models to compromise computers and infect more hosts.

3 Aug·12 min read
Inspiration
One Page Love
Inspo

Website Inspiration: Aspen Search

Aspen Search connects engineering and research talent with quantitative trading firms through their one-page website.

3 Aug
Lenny's Newsletter
Product

ChatGPT Codex Voice + browser + Sites: an expert’s AI workflow | Nick Baumann (OpenAI)

Nick Baumann demonstrates ChatGPT Codex Voice and its features, including screen reading and background tasks.

3 Aug·3 min read
UX Collective
Thinking

Designing for the proxy

AI is changing the design audience, as digital experiences now often interact with machines, like language models, before reaching human users.

2 Aug·7 min read

Editor's pick

Nate Parrott - How a Side Project Became Claude Design

Nate Parrott turned a side project into Claude Design, a notable design firm.

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UX Collective
Thinking

Designing for the proxy

2 Aug·7 min read
UX Collective
Thinking

Look & feel

Inspiration picks

Visual references from across the design web.

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Inspiration
One Page Love

Website Inspiration: Aspen Search

Codrops

Building an Infinite GSAP Scroll Gallery with Parallax and Flip Transitions

Perplexity diverges with color

1 Aug·7 min read

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Video

You Can't Fake Product Sense

2 Aug
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Video

The sentence that changed how clients see my work

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AI & Tools
Hugging Face
AI

Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B

4 Aug·5 min read
Import AI
AI

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

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Product & Startup

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Lenny's Newsletter
Product

What if you’re not supposed to have a long-term plan?

4 Aug·14 min read
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Product

ChatGPT Codex Voice + browser + Sites: an expert’s AI workflow | Nick Baumann (OpenAI)

3 Aug·3 min read