Vol_5.18.26

We curate web design resources.

Website of the week:

The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

The Human Creativity Benchmark
A framework for evaluating generative AI in creative work that separates convergence, where evaluators agree on best practices, from divergence, where they legitimately disagree because the question has shifted to taste.
https://contralabs.com/research/human-creativity-benchmark

Claude Design Is Not a Design Systems Tool. That's Okay.
A design systems practitioner's honest read on what it is, what it isn't, and where Figma actually sits in this picture.
https://southleft.substack.com/p/claude-design-is-not-a-design-systems

Dos & Don’ts of Anchor Positioning
https://www.oddbird.net/2026/04/16/winging-it-31/

Draftsmanship - The hand finds what the prompt misses
https://www.proofofconcept.pub/p/draftsmanship

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CODEPEN Pen of the Week

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