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✦Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery✦German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews✦macOS Container Machines✦Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars✦Google Chat icon tweaked to look less like Google Messages✦I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works✦How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund✦Dieter Rams avoids computers. His ten rules still fit designing for AI.✦RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon✦Great White Sharks Have Been in the Mediterranean Sea for Millions of Years—but Sightings Are Incredibly Rare✦Congress just gave DHS another $70 billion✦The App Store is going to add subscription bundles soon✦If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know✦Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases✦Apple says it may remove apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users
✦Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery✦German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews✦macOS Container Machines✦Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars✦Google Chat icon tweaked to look less like Google Messages✦I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works✦How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund✦Dieter Rams avoids computers. His ten rules still fit designing for AI.✦RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon✦Great White Sharks Have Been in the Mediterranean Sea for Millions of Years—but Sightings Are Incredibly Rare✦Congress just gave DHS another $70 billion✦The App Store is going to add subscription bundles soon✦If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know✦Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases✦Apple says it may remove apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users
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Design Tools

5 sources in design tools

Updates from Figma and the broader design toolchain. Plugins, IDE-style tools, and the workflows around them.

  • Figma Blogblog↗
  • TOOOLS.designnewsletter↗
  • Sidebar.ionewsletter· RSS↗
  • UX Toolsblog↗
  • Prototypr.ionewsletter· RSS↗

UX & Thinking

7 sources in ux & thinking

Long-form essays and research on craft, usability, and how design holds up under real users.

  • UX Collectivepublication· RSS↗
  • Design MBApodcast· RSS↗
  • NN/gpublication· RSS↗
  • Smashing Magazinepublication· RSS↗
  • Design Spellsnewsletter↗
  • Dense Discoverynewsletter↗
  • Femke.designnewsletter↗

Inspiration

9 sources in inspiration

Visual showcases. Sites, flows, components and screenshots, surfaced and not summarized.

  • Mobbingallery↗
  • Godlygallery↗
  • Awwwardsgallery· RSS↗
  • Landingfoliogallery↗
  • Page Flowsgallery↗
  • Codropspublication· RSS↗
  • One Page Lovegallery· RSS↗
  • Muzlipublication· RSS↗
  • CSS Design Awardsgallery· RSS↗

Video

18 sources in video

Channels with consistently useful videos on design, tooling, and product craft.

  • Figma (YT)youtube↗
  • Juxtopposedyoutube↗
  • Jesse Showalteryoutube↗
  • Malewiczyoutube↗
  • DesignCourseyoutube↗
  • Flux Academyyoutube↗
  • CharliMarieyoutube↗
  • Dive Club by Riddyoutube↗
  • Mizkoyoutube↗
  • The Futuryoutube↗
  • AJ&Smartyoutube↗
  • Satori Graphicsyoutube↗
  • UX Tigers (YT)youtube↗
  • NNGroup (YT)youtube↗
  • Femke.design (YT)youtube↗
  • Punit Chawlayoutube↗
  • DesignerUpyoutube↗
  • Design Champsyoutube↗

Product & Startup

4 sources in product & startup

How products are built, priced, and run, for designers who think in business terms.

  • Lenny's Newsletternewsletter· RSS↗
  • Stratecherynewsletter· RSS↗
  • Product Disruptnewsletter↗
  • Product Huntforum· RSS↗

Tech News

6 sources in tech news

Industry-level news that affects what you'll be designing six months from now.

  • The Vergepublication· RSS↗
  • 9to5Googleblog· RSS↗
  • Hacker Newsforum· RSS↗
  • TechCrunchpublication· RSS↗
  • Wiredpublication· RSS↗
  • Ars Technicapublication· RSS↗

AI & Tools

8 sources in ai & tools

AI products and research that are reshaping the designer's stack.

  • TLDR AInewsletter↗
  • Ben's Bitesnewsletter↗
  • The Rundown AInewsletter↗
  • Import AInewsletter· RSS↗
  • OpenAI Blogblog· RSS↗
  • Hugging Faceblog· RSS↗
  • One Useful Thingnewsletter· RSS↗
  • MIT Tech Review · AIpublication· RSS↗

Newsletters

5 sources in newsletters

General-interest curators worth one inbox slot per day.

  • Morning Brewnewsletter↗
  • TLDRnewsletter↗
  • TLDR Designnewsletter↗
  • UX Design Weeklynewsletter· RSS↗
  • Figmalionnewsletter↗

Podcasts

12 sources in podcasts

Conversations worth a commute. Craft, careers, and the business of design.

  • Design Betterpodcast↗
  • Design Detailspodcast↗
  • 99% Invisiblepodcast· RSS↗
  • Design Matterspodcast↗
  • UI Breakfastpodcast· RSS↗
  • Honest UX Talkspodcast↗
  • NN/g UX Podcastpodcast↗
  • UX Podcastpodcast· RSS↗
  • Boagworld UX Showpodcast· RSS↗
  • ShopTalk Showpodcast· RSS↗
  • Smashing Podcastpodcast· RSS↗
  • a16z Podcastpodcast· RSS↗

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