Vol_8.11.25

We curate web design resources.

Gene Crawford
August 11, 2025

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Website of the week:

Spotify Design

AI won’t kill UX — we will
It’s time we stopped blaming the tools and started asking better questions about how we work, what we value, and how we make space for innovation again. https://uxdesign.cc/ai-wont-kill-ux-we-will-6ab68db1f1e3

When Figma Starts Designing Us
The subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make https://designsystems.international/ideas/when-figma-starts-designing-us/

Is Figma Make ready for dev-handoff?
Design-to-code tools that generate clean code.
https://uxdesign.cc/is-figma-make-ready-for-dev-handoff-9fe2594630e3

Creating proportional, equal-height image rows with CSS, 11ty, and Nunjucks
Equal-height image layouts seem simple until you try to build one that's truly responsive. This tutorial walks through my solution using flexbox aspect ratios, the Eleventy Image plugin, and a Nunjucks shortcode. https://jeremyrobertjones.com/blog/proportional-equal-height-image-row-css-11ty-nunjucks/

Craig Ward’s moodboard tool aims to recreate old-school serendipity
Composit is part of the designer's career pivot to focusing on his own tools and platforms, rather than client work.
https://www.designweek.co.uk/craig-wards-moodboard-tool-aims-to-recreate-old-school-serendipity/

Designing for User Font-size and Zoom Using modern CSS units and math functions https://www.oddbird.net/2025/07/22/size-preferences/

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