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Weekly Links — 3rd November 2025

First published: 03 Nov 2025 Last updated: 05 Nov 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. Product Designer's workflow for prototyping with Cursor

  2. How to build visual confidence as a designer

  3. commuting.to

Branding

  1. Becoming Superhuman (Grammarly rebranding to Superhuman post-acquisition)

Design

  1. Getting Creative With Small Screens (this is CSS but it’s design-focused)

  2. When execution gets easy, taste gets harder (this post so well encapsulates how I feel)

  3. > Not designers coding. Not developers designing. Just people making things, using whatever tool fits the moment.

  4. On Dynamic Island

  5. How to build visual confidence as a designer

  6. The Gothic Resurrection 🤘🏻

Motion

  1. Linear() Timing Function

  2. "Lens flare" animation in ChatGPT Atlas' onboarding

AI

  1. Product Designer's workflow for prototyping with Cursor (I have strong feelings about vibe coding into production, but vibe prototyping is excellent)

  2. The New Calculus of AI-based Coding (yes, yes, and yes)

  3. Using AI for UX Work: Study Guide

  4. Generative UI and Early Thoughts

Misc.

  1. Web 4.0

  2. Designing Remote Work at Linear (feels very familiar to how we work at DuckDuckGo…)

  3. Quality Wednesdays: How we trained our team to see what doesn’t work

  4. Why Silicon Valley’s vision of the future is broken—and how to fix it

  5. Original work is now an endangered species

Nerd Alert

  1. Text Effects using TextRenderer in SwiftUI

  2. Browser APIs: The Web’s Free SaaS

  3. Build your own database

  4. commuting.to (This is almost entirely CSS… wild)

  5. A brief history of domains (I've been reading Tim Berners-Lee's autobiography and he briefly mentions some of this)

  6. Solved by modern CSS: Section Layout

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