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🚀 Issue 726 is out! This week:

→ The rise of the Model Designer
→ When design gets louder, it also gets fragile
→ It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
→ Context-based design systems

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/m...
The rise of the Model Designer | HeyDesigner
When design gets louder, Designer's toolkit for Claude Code, From 0 to Minimum Lovable Product, Building a toast component, and more.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:57 AM
🚀 Issue 725 is out! This week:

→ Friction by design
→ A sharp tool can still ruin the cut
→ How I do web design
→ The cost of consistency

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/f...
Friction by design | HeyDesigner
How I do web design, Scroll percent, A sharp tool can still ruin the cut, Introducing CSS Grid Lanes and more.
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January 6, 2026 at 10:38 AM
🚀 Issue 724 is out! This week:

→ The art of vibe design
→ A new navigation paradigm
→ Design is more than code
→ Interface design theories

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/a...
The art of vibe design | HeyDesigner
A new navigation paradigm, Interface design theories, Design is more than code, Web UX: Study guide, Dialog view transitions, and more.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🚀 Issue 723 is out! This week:

→ Vibe coding for designers
→ Sneak peek of MDS’s creative process
→ Make it ugly, for clients
→ 0 → 1 product discovery

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/v...
Vibe coding for designers | HeyDesigner
MDS’s creative process, Product discovery, Design engineering gap, CSS text-grow, Embrace friction, CSS Wrapped 2025, and more.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚀 Issue 722 is out! This week:

→ Articulating design decisions
→ Why stealing design works
→ Stop asking users what they want
→ Bad UX design patterns

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/d...
Design decisions | HeyDesigner
Color of the year, Agents for designers, UX patterns, Vanilla CSS, Usability heuristics and AI principles, and more.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🚀 Issue 721 is out! This week:

→ A cruel reminder for all designers
→ How we built the v0 iOS app
→ Designing effective contextual menus
→ Agentic AI interface improvements

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/r...
Reminder for all designers | HeyDesigner
Designing menus, Agentic AI interface, Building the v0 iOS app, CSS Subgrid, CSS if statements, Susty Icons, and more.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🚀 Issue 720 is out! This week:

→ Good visual design, explained
→ The Rosetta Stone of design engineering
→ The hidden cost of shipping too fast
→ In the sea of sameness

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/g...
Good visual design | HeyDesigner
Design engineering, Shipping too fast, Sameness, Responsive letter spacing, Vibe coding as a designer, Color Palette Pro, and more.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🚀 Issue 719 is out! This week:

→ The 5 habits of the worst designers
→ Dear young designer, Part II
→ An alternative chat UI layout
→ My CSS selector strategy

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/5...
5 habits of the worst designers | HeyDesigner
Dear young designer, Testing different designs, On creating success, Alternative chat UI layout, My CSS selector strategy, and more.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🚀 Issue 718 is out! This week:

→ True design is better than new design
→ Japanese letterforms
→ The fundamentals problem
→ Six key components of UX strategy
→ Slots in design systems
→ Designing Perplexity

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/t...
True design is better | HeyDesigner
Japanese letterforms, UX strategy, The fundamentals problem, Slots in design systems, AI prototyping, Inclusive design, and more.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🚀 Issue 717 is out! This week:

→ Design’s Github moment by Drew Wilson, Michael Riddering
→ Branding Superhuman by Smith & Diction
→ On Dynamic Island by Shu Ding
→ The mys­tery of storytelling by Matthias Ott

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/newsletter/d...
Design’s Github moment | HeyDesigner
Branding Superhuman, On Dynamic Island, When design drives behavior, Springs and bounces in native CSS, The mystery of storytelling, and more.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🚀 Issue 707 is out! This week:

→ Why “Good UX” isn’t enough
→ A solopreneur’s guide to pricing yourself
→ Respectful performance management
→ Another article about centering in CSS
→ Raycast for designers
→ The grug brained designer

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/n/good-ux/
Good UX is not enough
Raycast for designers, Centering in CSS, Performance management, A solopreneur's guide to pricing yourself, The grug brained designer, and more.
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August 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🚀 Issue 701 is out! This week:

→ Product design in 2025
→ Designing for the eye
→ Liquid glass, fragile UX, and why I wanted 2 weeks before writing about it
→ How AI changed product design
→ A new way to style gaps in CSS

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/n/product-de...
Product design in 2025
Designing for the eye, How AI changed product design, Liquid glass, A new way to style gaps in CSS, Drawing CSS Shapes using corner-shape, and more.
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July 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Still a week left to take the State of CSS survey!

The survey hasn't got as many responses as last year, so any help sharing will be much appreciated :)

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State of CSS 2025
Take the State of CSS survey
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June 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
🚀 Issue 700 is out! This week:

→ Every interaction design concept
→ 34 lessons
→ Good design is imagination and inspiration
→ Deep dive into Uber’s Design Systems
→ Purposeful vs aesthetic naming
→ Prompt to code

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/n/interactio...
Interaction design concepts
34 lessons, Good design is imagination and inspiration, Creating design specs for development, Purposeful vs aesthetic naming, and more.
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June 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🚀 Issue 699 is out! This week:

→ The best interfaces we never built
→ The hamburger-menu icon today
→ Think like a designer
→ On shaping light
→ Partial keyframes
→ Writing and walking

and more.

Read it here 👉 heydesigner.com/n/best-inter...
The best interfaces we never built
The hamburger-menu icon, Think like a designer, Liquid Glass, On shaping light, Boundaries for designers, A new MVC is emerging and more.
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June 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM