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Weekly Links — 29th Oct 2025

First published: 28 Oct 2025 Last updated: 29 Oct 2025

🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗

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Ten Minute Focus

If you’ve got just ten minutes to read, pick two from these

  1. Beyond the Machine (this is SO worth reading, it's long so it's the only one I'm including up here, but take it in!)

Branding

  1. Heineken knows people like beer better than AI

  2. Case Study: Jam Area

  3. Three new features to help build brand momentum with Figma Buzz

  4. Pentagram — Archive (this is actually sick)

Design

  1. Bob Gill: Otherwise Forget It – design manifestos.org

  2. JSON demystified: A field guide for designers (this is well worth a read)

  3. Design Driven development in open source software

  4. A Linear spin on Liquid Glass

  5. Designing Software for Things that Rot

  6. Beyond the Machine

  7. Designers Have to Move From the Surface to the Substrate.

Motion

  1. Ambient Animations In Web Design: Principles And Implementation (Part 1)

  2. Ambient Animations In Web Design: Practical Applications (Part 2)

AI

  1. Should Designers Prompt?

  2. Co-Designing Interdisciplinary Design Projects with AI

  3. Apocryphal Inventions

  4. Look, another AI browser (short but funny take, I agree wholeheartedly)

  5. Good from Afar, But Far from Good: AI Prototyping in Real Design Contexts

  6. Tackling common UX hurdles with AI

Misc.

  1. Checklist for Accessibility in Collaborative Prototyping

  2. Durves (this is cool, little dot matrix builder)

Nerd Alert

  1. How Design Became a Boardroom Bystander

  2. Code with Context using Figma MCP Server

  3. components.build (An open-source standard for building modern, composable and accessible UI components)

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