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The Financial Times homepage is a beautiful example of “newspaper” layout on a news site. Good work with color and type, and above all, they glue everything into one style, even with mismatched images.

A retro pixel portfolio with a whole piano on the homepage.

A super cute portfolio site with work, a blog, even quotes and thoughts. Nice fonts, lovely details, and even praise for the author from Nothing’s CEO.

iA on making AI your writing assistant, not your ghostwriter. A great guide to using GPT mindfully.

A good example: don’t ask it to write the text, ask it for questions you can write the text around.

Fockups — a free, realistic alternative to soulless mockups.

Shopify’s design system goes deep on its design principles: color, depth, icons, visualization and even sound.

Good for broadening your horizons and for seeing what their UI is built on.

A thorough guide to design systems from Viktor Teplov. Which one to pick, how to build your own, which approaches to use?

Every paragraph is a fork in the road, with the pros and cons spelled out.

An open-source task tracker with a funny name. They put themselves alongside Linear, Jira and Notion, and built a site to match.

A free collection of design resources. It has a newsletter and search, and no interstitial screens.

Glows, particles and animations — UI candy from the Neon platform.

404 on Twitter.

The site of Opal’s head of design, with colorful projects. Lots of web + 3D combos.

Long reads on design from Matthew Ström, a lead at Stripe.

On decision charts for picking the right component. Banner, toast or alert? These charts help you get it right.

An “empty” portfolio design from a Linear designer. There’s a very cool Interaction Design page inside.

A solid, technical studio site with big typography.

A collection of popular design systems in a beautiful package.

Pages of cool creators that designer SJ Zhang gathered in their web world.

Fontsource is a free library with fonts from Google Fonts and other open-source projects.

Besides downloading, you can install any font locally right through npm install and import it into your code.

An account with screenshots of old interfaces. Lots of skeuomorphism and old versions of iOS.

A Telegram channel collecting designer portfolios from all over the world.
Check out the sites of Apple employees or get inspired by freelancers’ showcases.

A beautiful site with gentle animations about an “unusual design company”

Really cool notes on design and code.
Important but sometimes non-obvious topics in a beautiful interactive package.

A short interactive piece that teaches you to read SVG code (turns out it’s easy). Part of some upcoming course.