AI gardens, Sora icon, Claude Code & Figma MCP, error handling UX
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“The 1930s were ripe for innovation, during the thick of the Second Industrial Revolution. Designers were captivated by the new technology of plywood bending, which allowed previously impossible forms to emerge.”
How Estonia, AI gardens, and plywood make designers prolific →
By Darren Yeo
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Editor picks
- Can technology fix voting? →
The impact digitization of electoral process can actually have.
By Allan MacDonald - The paradox of tolerance →
Karl Popper and the extinction of the rational mind.
By Nate Sowder - Hoping for the long-term →
An interview with Alexander Rose.
By dave hoffer
The UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices and helps designers think more critically about their work.
Why Gothic endures in visual culture →
Make me think
- Original work is now an endangered species →
“Open Twitter, LinkedIn, or any blog platform. Scroll for five minutes. You’ll see the same articles rewritten 50 different ways. Headlines like: morning routines of successful people, is coding dead in the age of AI, top programming languages to learn this year, how to stop procrastinating once and for all, ChatGPT will revolutionize everything, side hustles you can start today.” - Creating prototypes constrained by the medium not our skills or understanding →
“But what if the limitations in the mind of a designer are their own and not the mediums? What if they don’t get how it works? What if they do but can’t make it work?” - We’ve all bought into technosolutionism, but we can opt out →
“Technosolutionism is a narrow perspective on progress and innovation, deeply rooted in the logic of capitalism: an innovation is pursued if it is the path of least resistance toward the largest financial return.”
Little gems this week
The horrors of designing for omniscience →
By Tristan Free
Sora app icon: a visual breakdown →
By Adir SL
Designing for emotional dependence →
By Ian Batterbee
Tools and resources
- AI-driven workflows →
Powered by Claude Code, Figma MCP, and others.
By Iasonas Georgiadis - Design prompt-building interfaces →
How to help users articulate their intents strategically.
By Sen Lin - Error handling →
UX design patterns to help users.
By Matan Rosen
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