Duolingo’s Math team got the new work style pre-AI: prototype first, argue later. The line worth keeping is that you have to really see or feel the experience to make the key decisions.

2. Brand Refresh - Louis Vuitton

Open All Hours on LV turning its monogram illustrative and playful. The piece is honest about where the look comes from, and it’s simple yet highly exccuted.

3. Monthly Read - The Strategy Behind Dia

Charlie Deets on designing The Browser Company’s Dia. Honestly one of the best design principle read- “The first objective of Dia’s design is to allow anyone to switch to Dia at 10am on a Tuesday morning.”

4. Portfolio - Kevin Hursey

A product designer who lives in maps: wayfinding, mobility, location intelligence for Uber and SpotHero. The portfolio is a super well excecuted cliche lol.

5. Type Design - Seona

A futuristic display face from Limitype built on distinctive connection shapes. Good reference for high-tech, robotic projects that need a modern edge.

6. Monthly Read - What’s Going On Here, With This Human?

Graham Duncan, a big time VC guy on how to actually read people. His claim that references are 5 to 10x more useful than interviews is the one to sit with. For hiring mangaers and everybody else, super nice Saturday morning read.

7. Color Theory - OKLCH Colors

Jakub Krehel’s clear case for OKLCH: change only the hue while lightness and chroma hold, so palettes stay balanced and shades don’t drift. Comes with oklch.fyi to convert your CSS.

8. Creative Tools - Design Gradients

48 linear gradients curated for backgrounds. Have fun. That’s it.

9. CreativePublication - Open All Hours

“A digital coffee house for creative minds” covering culture, design, and marketing. Educating, sharp pieces on brand and craft.

10. Design Talk - Design Foundations From Idea to Interface

One of my favorite Apple apps, which look and works even cooler in iOS 26. Good. reference for playful projects.

2. Product Design - Dia Browser

The Browser Company’s follow-up to Arc, The landing page earns its own look for how it sells features that are genuinely hard to screenshot.

3. App Design - CapWords

An Apple Design Award winner that turns your camera into a vocabulary book. Point it at anything and the object becomes a word sticker you review later, with the photo doubling as the memory anchor. The interaction is the pedagogy

4. Monthly read - IDEO: Busting the Myths of Gamification

IDEO’s Play Lab argues that points and badges are the shallow read of gamification, and the real leverage sits in mechanics like challenge, feedback, and progression.

5. App Design - Tiempo

A workout timer for Apple Watch by Santiago Villalba and Ivan Koop that reads the whole session off two rings. Wonderful website and copy work!

6. Creative Tools - Content Core

A browser-based tool for 3D mockups, motion templates, and extruded type that skips the marketing page entirely and drops you straight onto the canvas.

7. Motion Tools - Magic Animator

A Figma plugin by Lottielab that turns static vectors into motion in one click, exporting to MP4, GIF, or Lottie. The fastest path from a flat icon to something that moves.

8. Design Team Site - Intercom Design

Built, it says right on the page, by 3 designers and 2 AI tools in 1 day. Great motion work, and the writing on designing AI products is worth the scroll.

9. Reading list - Design Better Summer Reading

Six books from Design Better’s podcast guests. Adam Moss on how work actually gets made, Jordan Mechner’s graphic memoir, Scott Berkun on why design is hard. A good list to steal from.

10. Type Design - Yourbold

A fat, chubby display face from limitype in Indonesia, built in Illustrator and Fontself. Good reference for anything that needs to shout without looking mean.

Camden's commercial photography sits at the intersection of cinema and craft. A consistent body of work that proves product photography can have genuine aesthetic movie-like ambition.

2. Web Design — Supahero

A library of website hero section designs organized for quick reference, useful when you need to pressure-test a layout direction or just see what's actually working on the web right now.

3. Industrial Design — Sigma BF Camera

Sigma's BF strips the camera back to almost nothing, no mode dial, no excess, a rare product where restraint IS the entire design statement.

4. Monthly read — IDEO: Human-Centered Design in the Age of AI

IDEO makes the case that as AI reshapes how products are built, the need for design that starts with human needs becomes more urgent, not less.

5. Product Design — Beeline Moto II

Another one on the minimal line - a minimal motorcycle navigation device that distills turn-by-turn directions to a single glance. Elegant product design that solves exactly one problem extremely well.

6. Concept Design — iOS x visionOS

A detailed concept by Eli Johnson imagining iOS through the lens of visionOS's layering and materials — more rigorous than most concepts and worth studying for how Apple might move next.

7. AI image generation - Reve

World-changing innovation tends to happen in two phases. The first is humanity figuring out how to unleash a powerful force (fire, electricity, computation). The second is learning to control it. Watch this beauty of a case study.

8. Tech of the month - Avelo

Avelo tracks impact and form in real time, coaching you to unlock speed, strength, and resilience—every run. Number 10 is also about tech fitness, which puts a blurred line between tech and real active life.

9. The Rise of Super Senior ICs — An interview with Garron Engstrom

Design Director at Meta, on what it means to be a high-level designer who never goes into management. The core idea: as design teams shrink, companies are increasingly looking for “Super ICs” — staff, principal, or director-level individual contributors who drive strategy and vision without managing people.

10. Interactive fitness tech - GROWL

Think a human-shaped projection system that sees you, tracks your form in real-time with 3D motion tracking, and adapts its coaching to every rep. I want to see more of these, taking it past the screen and closer to real life.

A heartfelt portrait of one of Britain's most celebrated documentary photographers, essential watching for anyone who cares about how photography shapes cultural memory.

2. App Design — Miles — Running Tracker

A stripped-back running tracker that knows exactly what it is and doesn't try to be anything else. Clean, purposeful app design that treats simplicity as a feature.

3. Digital Branding — Base Design: Digital Environments

Base Design's approach to digital brand environments shows how a studio known for print rigour translates its craft into interactive, spatial experiences without losing the thread.

4. Product Design — FRANKY'S

A hat brand with sharp product photography and a visual identity that treats headwear with the seriousness it deserves. A proof that category and craft don't have to fight each other.

5. Editorial Design — Coverjunkie

The definitive archive of magazine covers and the designers behind them — an endless well of layout, typography, and editorial inspiration that never gets old.

6. Poster Design — The Archive — Typo/Graphic Posters

More posters! Another deep archive of poster work from around the world, the kind of place you open looking for one reference and leave an hour later with fifteen new ones.

7. Motion & Visual — Eyecandy — Visual Technique Library

A massive library of visual and filmmaking techniques organized by name. From datamosh to dolly zoom — the most useful creative reference tool I've seen in this format.

8. Creative Tools — Flim — Image Database

An AI-powered image and screencap database built for creative people — search by visual feeling and actually find what you're looking for.

9. Landing page — Future

A coaching app that pairs you with a real human trainer. The Landing page is really app-focused and clear, which is not easy to do.

10. Case Study — Cris Mascort — Open iOS

A full iOS design case study for Open's meditation and movement platform. A strong design systems thinking applied to a product that genuinely needed it.

Apple's own writers break down how they think about language in UI, from button labels to error messages, making the case that words are a design material, not an afterthought.

2. Generative Design — Fields of Chess

A generative poster tool that turns any chess game's moves into a visual artifact. Proof that data can be aesthetically compelling.

3. Voice AI — Bland: Enterprise Voice AI Agents

Bland is building voice AI agents that handle real phone conversations. Proof that ‘boring’ topics can have nice landing pages.

4. Data & Research — ClassPass 2024 Look Back Report

ClassPass' annual data report maps how millions of people actually move and prioritize wellness — sharp behavioral insight for anyone designing health or habit-forming products.

5. Brand Systems — Dropbox Brand Guidelines

One of the most publicly accessible brand systems from a major tech company: thorough, well-organized, and worth studying for how they balance flexibility with consistency at scale.

6. Mobile Design — Explore Navigation Design for iOS

Designing iOS native? Apple's design team walks through the principles behind iOS navigation architecture. Good refresher

7. App Design — Stretch It

Catchy moves make for a viral app. This is a macOS timer app built entirely around one gesture — stretch to set time. A masterclass in letting a single well-executed interaction.

8. Monthly read — Work Better This Year (Or Don't)

It's Nice That's honest take on creative productivity strips away the hustle-culture noise and gets to what actually helps people do better, more meaningful work.

9. Branding — Anti's Identity for Kulturhavna

Anti built this identity with the community, not just for it — the result is a visual system that genuinely reflects the people it represents rather than a designer's interpretation of them.

10. Personal Web — Digital Garden — iamrobin

Robin Spielmann's digital garden is the kind of quiet, considered corner of the web that makes you want to build one yourself , I see more and more of these and I love it.

Some websites just get it. Persistent and modern brand assets, videos, copy, typography, all top-notch.

2. Monthly read - The future of creativity is wilder

“what happens to human creativity when the baseline gets handled by a machine? By partnering with something that doesn't think like us, we think the answers might be wilder than we expect.” - Great read!

3. Art show - Light as a material — James Turrell at Pace Gallery

Turrell’s light installations redefine the relationship between space, perception, and presence, an essential reference for anyone thinking seriously about immersive or environmental design.

4. Landing page design - Cora email plugin

I tried it once it and it did organize my inbox, but most of all, the landing page is so peaceful and fun and chill.

5. Music inspiration - Baby J

This is new to this list, but this crazy fun music really helped me thourgh some long long design work hours.

6. Design Resource — Sneak Peek

Inside access to how design teams at Figma, Slack, Plaid, and others actually work/ Processes, structures, and decisions that rarely get documented anywhere else.

7. Health Tech — Ultrahuman

Ultrahuman blends medical-grade data visualization with genuinely consumer-friendly UI — one of the rare health tech companies that treats aesthetics as a core product feature.

8. Icons — Griddy Icons

A tightly curated grid-based icon collection built for precision and system-level consistency. The kind of library that makes your whole design feel more coherent the moment you drop it in.

9. Studio Life — Smith & Diction 2024 Year in Review

S&D’s annual retrospective is one of the most candid looks at what it actually takes to run a creative studio, honest about the work, the clients, and the business behind the craft.

10. App Design — INTVL

INTVL gamifies running by letting you claim real-world territory. A clever UX model that turns exercise into a location-based strategy game and gives people a genuine reason to keep going.

See you next list,
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Follow this Sharp curation of typography and brand work on X.com

2. Case study — EA FC Pro Branding

Esports branding that doesn’t borrow from traditional sports. Custom type, triangular system, tournament-specific palettes. This is how you make gaming feel big.

3. Portfolio — Nike Training App Badges

Old but gold, always coming back to this one. Achievement badges built with material logic pulled from actual gym equipment.

4. Case study — Riot Games Europe

More on gaming, Five years building a visual identity for a league that now hits 1.5M concurrent viewers. Two colliding forces in a logo.

5. Portfolio — Hannah Lee 2025 Calendar

A giclée art calendar that’s the design work itself. Physical goods designed with the same rigor as any digital product.

6. Resource — eBay Playbook

Five years of work, one custom typeface, a global illustration library, and a color system that flexes across markets. Enterprise design systems done right.

7. Read — Elizabeth Goodspeed on Credit

Great read - Who actually gets credit when multiple studios touch a brand over time? Goodspeed untangles the politics. AG1 brand design process is there, too.

8. Portfolio — Creech Design Studio

An independent creative studio in New York led by Ashley Jones and Griffin Creech, a designer and a writer, respectively, working as co-creative directors.

9. Landing page — Scout Motors Traveler

An electric SUV product page that lets the hardware breathe. Spare, confident, no overexplaining.

10. Resource — Atomize Design System

1,500+ components, multi-brand theme support, and tokenized variables. Production-ready and priced for real teams. You’re welcome.

Nothing does hardware launches differently. A tight, brand-consistent film introducing open-ear earphones and OS 3.0 in the same breath, worth watching for the craft alone.

2. Listen — Connor Moore: Sound design for Tesla, Uber, Peloton, and more

The designer nobody talks about is the one you hear. Connor Moore breaks down sonic branding at scale and why sound is the most underrated design frontier.

3. Read — It’s clearly time: the transparent tech renaissance

The Verge’s running log of everything clear, open, and see-through in consumer tech. Part trend tracker, part design history, and it keeps getting longer.

4. All-time favorite — Family App Values

4,000 words and 50+ visual examples on how the Family app was built. Not a tutorial, but a rare design essay that shows you what intentional craft actually looks like

5. Resource — Studios Directory

A clean, searchable index of design studios from around the world. Useful when you need a reference or want to see how good studios present themselves.

6. Watch — Post Malone: Live From The Studio

An unfiltered studio session with no staging, no narrative. Sometimes my best design inspiration has nothing to do with design.

7. Watch — Dick Costolo: Conversations on Quality, Ep. 01

What is quality? It seems hard to describe and even harder to measure, but you can feel it when it’s there. You know it when you experience it. This is a series of conversations with those who seek to create products of this undefinable quality.

8. Portfolio of the month — Fol

Istanbul studio, founded in 2014. Award-winning work across brand identity, UI/UX, and packaging. Their site is as sharp as their client list.

9. Indie app of the month — Globezones

A timezone tool that actually looks good. Visualize and convert time zones without opening a spreadsheet, and it works on a globe.

10. Resource — Season Sans

Displaay’s new variable typeface explores the full sans-to-serif spectrum in one family weight, serif-degree, and italic, all variable. Bookmark it for your next type decision.

Bonus

Hardware that removes the option to procrastinate. One device, one job: write.

2. Font of the month — Cigars by Heavyweight Type

A display typeface that carries the room. The kind of font that turns a layout into a statement.

3. Read — Methods for random gradients

An OpenAI designer documents the three methods behind their iconic gradients — Perlin noise heightmaps, layered SVGs, and DALL·E prompts. The kind of craft write-up that makes you want to open Processing.

4. Tool — Ari the UX Intern

A GPT that plays junior designer to your creative director. Useful for rubber-ducking UX decisions when no one's around.

5. Resource — Easing Graphs

Every CSS easing curve, visualized and interactive side by side. Bookmark it, open it every time you're in motion.

6. Watch — BeamO — World's first multiscope

Thermal, visible light, and gas detection in one handheld device. Industrial design at its most purposeful.

7. Case study — Pentagram — PayPal

One of Pentagram's most scrutinized briefs in years. Proof that a great rebrand doesn't need to shout.

8. Studio of the month — Playlist Studio

A studio whose own site outperforms most of its client work. Restraint used as a design statement

9. Landing page of the month — Nest Thermostat 4th Gen

Google's product pages have no right to be this good. This one makes a thermostat feel like a design object.

10. Tool of the month — Semplice 7

The portfolio builder designers trust, now better. More control, same focus.

Established in Stockholm in 2015, this branding agency has nailed a landing page with vibe, being concise on who they are and what values they bring. From typography to photography and layout.

2. Mac app - NotchNook

This tiny, helpful Mac app puts lide into your top notch. Super smooth interaction and experience.

3. Monthly read - Last Year You Said Next Year

Linear published a striking manifesto arguing that stagnation sneaks in through the tools we use every day, and that the future we keep putting off is only one decision away.

4. Resource - Design Systems Surf

Best-in-class Design Systems with components and foundations references from top-tier tech companies and leading UI teams.

5. Podcast - Change of Brand

Listen to the interesting story behind EA Sports' rebrand.

6. Resource - Modify Design Platform

AI image editing, vector tools, and art direction in one browser-based package, and they just announced they're joining Figma. See what they were building before the merger.

7. Ted Talk - TikTok CEO Shou Chew

Love it or hate it, TikTok is the most interesting feed product ever designed. Its CEO sits with TED to explain the algorithm, the culture, and what happens next.

8. Studio of the month - Nuevo.Tokyo

Designing perennial products. Building brands with authenticity and memorability. Supporting the camera industry. Exploring what’s next. All human-made.

9. Read - Nest Learning Thermostat update

Google brings Matter, Soli, and serious Pixel Watch vibes to the fourth generation of its flagship smart thermostat.

10. Read - Robinhood’s New Visual Identity

The updated design features an iconic, simplified logo symbol, a focused color palette, rooted in black, white, and neutrals, A technical and distinct illustrative style that’s like a work of art, and more.

Bonus

Some hotels have better landing pages than most companies I know. This Spanish gem is one of them.

2. Portfolio of the month - Roberto Rodríguez Gijón

Speaking of Spain, this Spanish designer has a calming, interactive, and sharp portfolio that will inspire you.

3. Nate Hanson - Designer at Coinbase

Some portfolios are just a carousel of visual candies, and that’s great.

4. Read - Invisible Details of Interaction Design

I revisit this piece from 2023 from time to time, and it’s also a good introduction for designers.

5. The Disruptors: Sam Altman and Brian Chesky in conversation

6. Resource - Dark Mode Design

A whole library full of dark-mode design.

7. FC 24 Official Launch Trailer

A nice take on the Triangle concept of football gaming. Great brand work.

8. Photographer - Geofflowe

A unique style and execution for this sports and lifestyle photographer.

9. Case study - Fitbit Ace LTE

Made by global studio Koto, a brand design project I find great and precise in execution.

10. Discover what designers are listening to while they design

Bonus

A VERY dramatically designed SaaS page, with an Armageddon-like vibe. An open-source platform serves as an all-in-one replacement for Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion.

2. Delphi AI Product reveal video - By Possimplic studio

If you’re looking for a good reference for another ‘AI Product”, the French motion studio made a very elegant, but approachable video for their client, Delphi AI.

3. Avenue Mono - Font by Boulevard LAB

Speaking of AI, this font would work so so well for an AI brand, I swear. Tap the link to get it.

4. Monthly read - Design without process, or the form factor trap

One of my all time favorite reads. The article argues that teams keep shipping “new” products that are mentally stuck in old shapes. Written by Pavel Samsonov in DOC

5. Config 2024: A look inside teenage engineering

Very interesting session with Jesper Kouthoofd, discussing the process of building inspiring products for the world while providing a behind-the-scenes look at the work currently taking place at Teenage Engineering.

6. Creative of the month - Erica Fustero

A very talented and all-around illustrator, photographer, and designer based in Mataró. A style and vibe the Internet needs right now. Shoutout !

7. Product of the month - Blok

This company is a great example of minimal and sharp execution for a known problem that no one has really solved yet. Distractions.

8. Product Page - Phone (2a) Plus

If you want to see a product page that actually looks unique, try Nothing. Their uniqueness is celebrated, not apologized for.

9. All-time favorite read - Family App core experience principles

Read about the design philosophy behind Family, an iOS crypto wallet project. Benji distills the product’s essence into three core principles that shaped the experience: simplicity, fluidity, and delight. All-time favorite read.

10. The Objects of Our Life - Steve Jobs’ talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen

I leave you this time with this piece of art, a ‘Talk’ I revisit from time to time to center all this hard work on what it’s really about - taking part in whatever ‘tomorrow’ looks like.

Happy New Year.

It’s been a while since I came across such a serene website. The writing, the photography, the transitions, all pure smoothness. I don’t care what you sell, I’m buying.

2. Branding style guides - Archive

Working on a brand book? This archive has the brand books for the largest brands in the world. Enjoy.

3. The role of designer - NN Group

Back to basics. Spoken from Father. Good refresher for us, and for those who work with us.

4. Resources - Lucide Icons

More icons, yay. Oh, and there are more here

5. Read - Start design projects in a Google Doc

(Or caht GPT) Good read if you are looking for new mind tools, methods, and how to work better with the rest.

6. Read - Figma’s brand design process

Yeah, you hear 'Figma’ and I get your attention. Kidding, this article is gold. Read how Rasmus Andersson (who worked on the Spotify brand too) describes his time in your favorite company.

7. Read - Interview with Rosie Ferris, Design Manager at Spotify

Speaking of Spotify, this interview is a very interesting read. You guys need more design heroes, honestly.

8. Animation - Jitter

We have officially ended our relationship with Adobe, folks. Tools like Affinity and Jittes mean I no longer have to open After Effects, which automatically takes 3 hours of my day somehow.

9. Watch - Chris Do Interview

Chris Do, an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO, and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur, on some cool topics.

10. Landing page of the month - Dream Machine

Looking for video models for our app this month brought me to this gem.

Random Goodness

A UK-based creative studio known for bold, playful digital design and branding. And the website is so much fun.

2. Portfolio of the month - Tobias van Schneider

One of my design heroes, with a timeless, stylish, and personal website (but I’m biased).

3. Amicons - icon pack for your next project

Looking for icons for your next project? This pack is modern yet soft and human.

4. Read - How to test a design system and UI

Google’s Material 3 is being refined through real-world testing, focusing on dynamic color, adaptable components, and a more expressive, personal approach to interface design.

5. Read - The Asda rebrand

The new identity embraces simplicity and nostalgia, using a bold green palette, friendly typography, and cheerful illustrations to reconnect with ASDA’s community roots. The goal was to make the brand feel accessible, optimistic, and proudly British!

6. Case Study - Qatar Airlines

They came to Instrument studio with an aspiration to offer the best airline app in the world — one that handled this magnitude of flights, up-leveled their user experience, and evolved the digital application of their brand.

7. Watch - WWDC23: Animate symbols in your app

Designing an iOS app? using Symbols? a reminder that they can be animated with the right framework. This elevates the projects easily.

8. Case Study - MessUp studio branding

a boutique agency with a strong experience in brand strategy and brand design. This case study is about how they designed themselves. I love the assets and the use of old art and new typography.

9. Listen - Ev Williams, Co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Blogger

Key philosophical insights from the episode: The power of simplicity in product design, trusting intuition over data alone, the importance of entrepreneurs understanding their motivations and blind spots, and the need for strategic quitting vs. sunk-cost perseverance.

10. Design Studio - Raw Materials

A design company focused on launching unusually creative digital products to help brands stand out and innovate. They challenge conformity, aiming to design better ways forward for ambitious leaders. You can understand all about their style based on their super fun website.

Random Goodness

This directory has once-in-a-lifetime fonts. Truly special.

2. Read - Keeping WhatsApp fresh, simple, and approachable

WhatsApp refreshed its UI on Android and iOS — keeping the app modern, friendly, and intuitive. Shoutout Idit Yaniv!

3. Designer Spotlight - Yuhang Lu

Some designers need no introduction, from Aime, to Nothing OS, to xAI, this London-based designer is one of my go-to inspiration sources.

4. Standards - brand platform

A design and technology studio that helps companies create polished digital products and brands. Their case studies are great for brand folks.

5. SeatGeek - Brand system

The SeatGeek brand system is heavily inspired by the visual vernacular of old-school event posters, trading cards, marquees, and memorabilia.

6. Mishmash - Stationary store

Their website is a precise and refreshing take on e-commerce. From the assets to the composition.

7. Rosco – Free Typeface

Rosco is a decorative and experimental typeface initially developed for the wordmark of a local cycling club. Letter by letter, it evolved into the full Latin alphabet.

8. Jack Cohen - Photographer of the month

Jack Cohen is a landscape and street photographer based in Brooklyn. His work aims to preserve the ephemeral and celebrate curiosity. He also has a collection of favorite tasteful items that I like.

9. Bradley Ziffer - Designer of the month

This NYC-based designer has a way with portfolio assets, making a hiring platform at Amazon feel like a highly emotional experience. From storytelling to infographics, this designer does it super-fine.

10. Fold - Landing page

I especially like the copywriting on this website. Their Manifesto is to ‘Separate anxiety from money’, and I think it’s a great value to feel connected to. The website is clean and passes the message well.

Random Goodness

A nice brand and visual design tool I came across some time ago, which helps quickly visualize and refine your design concepts. Good for the early stages of brand design.

2. Strut - AI writing tool

An all-in-one writing workspace that integrates notes, documents, and project management with AI assistance. I saw some cool features like deep-focus and, of course, an AI collaborator. But the landing page is super calm and inviting.

3. DoingCoolStuff - Library of design studios

Not that you asked for another large collection of landing pages, this is a great source of inspiration for your next creative project.

4. User Interviews featuring Steve Portigal

Steve Portigal is a renowned user researcher. He is the principal of Portigal Consulting and an author. In this NN Group podcast, you can get some gems on user interviews.

5. Monthly Landing page: Trunk - The AI DevOps agent

I know nothing about what this landing page is talking about, but boy, the ball that moves alongside my scrolling is mesmerizing. Take a look,

6. Monthly Read - 13 business questions for your next design project

This amazing read is all you need when starting a new project inside a company. Ask these questions to either have better solutions, or invaluable projects before you start them.

7. Jitter - Community resources

Jitter has some high-level resources for you to use to speed up your work in creating animated assets, for social media or presentations.

8. Ear (a): Let's Play - video

I love everything the Nothing Company releases, from product design to interface all the way to marketing. Check out their landing page as well.

9. Read: The vanishing designer

Chuánqí’s rallying cry against design’s slide into safe, templated sameness. Data, process, and conformity have replaced bold ideas, killing originality. His fix: take risks, make mistakes, reject convergence, and design what doesn’t yet exist—because safe design is dead design.

10. Monthly Designer: Guy Moorhouse

This month is about having a few strong cards as a designer, and Guy has shown in his portfolio a deep understanding of design and a high bar for craft, too.

Random Goodness

The article explains how product managers set direction, align teams, and focus efforts on building the right things, not just building fast. I like the metaphor used to break it down easily.

2. Landing page - Riveo, an AI FX and video editor for iOS.

Yes, another AI tool, but this time for iOS. I do like the kinda-Apple website with precise assets and clear messaging. Make it cool, make it quick.

3. Landing page - amo

Amo is a Paris-based social company that creates a suite of apps, including ID, Bump, and Sugar, which prioritize real-world friendships over algorithm-driven feeds. The company aims to make online interactions feel as meaningful and fun as offline ones.
By far the best website intro I have seen. Tap in to enjoy.

4. Article - Invisible Details of Interaction Design

Rauno Freiberg is a product designer known for his deep focus on interaction design, micro-interactions, and spatial interfaces. He previously worked at companies like Figma and Vercel, and his writing and work often explore the subtleties that make digital products feel intuitive and alive.

5. Monthly Designer spotlight - Mohammed Yarroum

A Swedish interdisciplinary designer focused on crafting thoughtful digital experiences across branding, UX, and strategy.

6. Design Resources - Design Resources lol

I will always recommend another huge list of design goodies. Have fun.

7. Monthly photographer - Cozy

A Los Angeles-based photographer, director, and professional athlete who specializes in fashion and storytelling. Their images evoke deep emotions, making viewers feel connected and fully immersed in the story.

8. Fonts - Fresh Fonts

I am not associated with this website, but that monthly font email is hitting good. Great for brand designers and creatives.

9. The Browser Company’s CEO - Josh Miller

If you are building products, this is for you. Josh shares ways that his company embraces experimentation, including their “optimizing for feelings” approach to building, and explains why extreme transparency is at the forefront of everything they do.

10. Branding Perplexity - Creating an Invisible Brand

You’re probably familiar with this company. But if you want a glimpse of their brand process by Smith & Diction, this is the official article.

Random Goodness

The Cosmos of Design by Lars Kretz is a fascinating, philosophical journey into the hidden logic of design. Drawing on thinkers like Horst Rittel, Donald Schön, and John Dewey, it reframes design not as surface styling but as a deep method of inquiry, discovery, and meaning-making. It’s not always an easy read, but it’s full of moments that make you rethink what design is

. If you’re a designer who likes to think big, this one’s for you.

That’s one of the central questions Lars Kretz explores in The Cosmos of Design, and the age of AI, it feels more relevant than ever.1

Two mindsets emerge:

1. Design as Process

You define a path. Map the options. Iterate toward clarity.
This approach leans on logic, structure, and repeatability.

It’s how junior designers get up to speed.
It’s how large teams build consistent products.
And it’s exactly what AI is starting to excel at.

AI can help you generate flows, compare layouts, and test variants.
But what's left for you to decide if process is all you lean on?

2. Design as Creative Act

You follow your gut. Mix emotion, memory, and experience.
This approach thrives in ambiguity; it’s how new ideas emerge.

It’s how senior designers invent new categories.
It’s how brands build taste.
And it’s where AI still struggles to go on its own.

But intuition is hard to measure.
Harder to explain.
And in some teams, it's hard to defend.

So here’s the tension

AI is scaling the structured side of design.
But that puts more pressure on designers to bring the spark
even as our systems and briefs get more rigid.

And that leads to a deeper question:

What’s the value of a designer who only follows the map?
When can the map be generated in seconds?

Final thought:

Maybe the challenge now isn’t choosing between instinct and process, but knowing when to switch.
When to trust the system, and when to break it.
When to prompt, and when to provoke.

That’s not just design skill.
That’s design sense.

Serg

A reminder that simplicity still stuns. No clutter. No chaos. Just clarity.

2. Addison James - Product Designer

Great design work inside. Especially the Therma project.

3. Campaigns of the world website

Global ad creativity in one place. Quick scroll = idea avalanche.

4. How to Create a Memorable Logo In 2024 - Erik Messaki

Back to basics. Surprisingly sharp logo advice without the usual guru fog.

5. Mona Hotel – Athens

Art direction that feels like a short film. Less like booking a room, more like entering a story.

6. Oura smart ring website

I love tech brands that understand that sometimes, we buy the style too.

7. Kim Jung Gi - Artist of the month

If you don’t know him yet, I’ll take a chance and try to describe him in one sentence: he is simply one of the best graphic artists in the world

8. Supermotion - create 3D videos for your products

I’m not associated with this company, but it is really quick and can help close holes for your team.

9. Clicks - a keyboard for iPhone. Really.

Thank you for making this. Really. This reminds me of the movie Blackberry which will close this list.

10. Backberry - Netflix Movie of the month

If you build tech, design tech, or just enjoy tech, this movie is about the new age of mobile phones and the crazy story behind the keyboard we loved in Blackberrys. Go watch.

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Marco is a Germany-based photographer who has traveled the world and continues to travel to expand his mind and his sense of aesthetics. His natural focus manifests in capturing the emotional Zeitgeist and the ever-growing impulse to long for the individual freedom of today’s digital youth.

Visit Theory of Intimacy — Photography book

2. Duolingo Music — App inspiration

Inspiration always takes you to Duolingo if you’re working on a gamified app. The monster company has 113 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide (STATISTA).

Their new venture, Music, is an awesome source of inspiration for horizontal screen usage, interactivity, and how a solid design system scales. Try it in the App Store.

Visit Duolingo Music

3. Best Inventions — TIME Magazine

An easy source of inspiration for anything from brand design, industrial design, web design, etc. The best inventions usually have the best design behind them.

Visit Best Inventions - TIME magazine

4. Saans Font — Displaay Type Foundry

Displaay is an independent type foundry established in 2014 and based in Prague, Czech Republic. Our team has numerous collaborators around the world. This is one of the sharpest, modern, and sleek fonts I've seen lately, and I am confident it's a boost to almost any project you can think of.

Visit Displaay Type Foundry

5. Journal app — App by Apple

I’ve tried this relatively new app by Apple, and honestly, although I don’t like writing (to myself), the app is designed very well, and I think you should try it to get some inspiration on how a seemingly ‘boring’ experience can have some of that Apple delight.

They also do ‘smart defaults’ smartly. The app collects a few photos and videos and the location of that place and suggests you write about the experience there after you leave. Smart defaults make an experience seem smart and personalized.

Read more about the Journal app

6. Metro Boomin — Red Bull Symphonic (Full Performance)

Bringing two worlds together works if you do it well enough, and this concert is a great example. Metro Boomin is an American record producer and music executive. Known for his dark production style, he is regarded as one of the most influential producers in modern hip-hop and Trap music.

7. Mosaic — Concept Design

Louis Berger is a German Industrial Designer based in Munich & Seattle, currently working at Microsoft. His Mosaic concept project is a beautiful and thoughtful display of skills and play.
You can see the process through simple scrolling and it’s a cool concept. Great inspiration for a case study of concept projects, and also see Louis’s other projects.

Visit Louis Berger’s website to see more

8. Design Articles — Collider

A publication accelerating knowledge and insights for the creative tribe’s journey through tech, startup, and venture. If you are looking for high-level, deep, and thoughtful articles from top designers, this is the publication to do so.

Read the Collider here

9. The Art of Visual Design — Online class

I am not associated with this course, but I just love the website's visual style, the fun retro which we grew up on. Besides that, it seems like a decent and fun class where we can gain visual experience and improve our skills. Check it out.

Visit the course here

10. Watch Pro 2 — By Nothing

From their YouTube videos to their landing pages, Nothing company is consistent in branching out as the new design standard. Social media is packed with fan-made designs, and I can’t wait for more people to implement this minimal, back-to-basics, honest design.This watch is a manifestation of these principles.

Take a look here

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