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We curate web design resources.

Website of the week:

16 Pieces of Design Wisdom
https://hvpandya.com/design-wisdom

Brutalism in web design rejects perfection for authenticity. Stark grids, raw type, and honest structure create interfaces that feel human, intentional, and impossible to ignore. Break the rules, on purpose.

Why Am I Doing the Thinking for You?
I got a Slack message the other week, just “What do you think?” with a link to a Notion document.
https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/02/02/why-am-i-doing-the-thinking-for-you/

Beautiful Mermaid
An open source library for rendering diagrams, designed for the age of AI: beautiful-mermaid. Ultra-fast, fully themeable, and outputs to both SVG and ASCII.
https://agents.craft.do/mermaid

Drag Gestures on the Web
Drag gestures are far less common on the web than on mobile. I wanted to try how they feel on the web, so I built this iOS 26 inspired gesture with Motion as an exercise.
https://jakub.kr/work/drag-gesture

Understanding the fundamentals of CSS Layout
When developers say that CSS is hard, they're usually talking about CSS layout. What often gets omitted though is that developers are assumed to understand and effectively use CSS without being taught how it works in the first place.
https://polypane.app/blog/understanding-the-fundamentals-of-css-layout/

Creativity + Science = Ads that perform

Join award-winning strategist Babak Behrad and Neurons CEO Thomas Z. Ramsøy for a strategic, practical webinar on what actually drives high-impact advertising today. Learn how top campaigns capture attention, build memory, and create branding moments that stick. It’s all backed by neuroscience, and built for real-world creative teams.

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CODEPEN Pen of the Week