Five Links #123
1. Consequences of hidden content and bad UX If you’ve ever felt – or been made to feel – that the decisions we make across content design, UX and...
Five Links #122
1. ‘AI’ is not a tool Good tools have many properties LLMs lack - they are predictable, reliable, deterministic, of bounded function, hopefully simple etc....
Five Links #121
1. The people holding up the internet This is brilliant: People post this comic whenever something breaks. The tower is labelled “all modern digital...
Five Links #120
1. X is bad, though With decreasing subtlety over the past few weeks, John keeps pointing out that there’s a lot of fun to be had over on X, culminating in...
Five Links #119
1. Decorative images…aren’t a thing At least not as far as people are concerned. Yes, this is an absolutist take, but sometimes it’s necessary to take the...
Five Links #118
1. AI in charity content This fascinating research study from Lauren Pope looks at AI use across 70 charity content practitioners. The findings summary is...
Five Links #117
1. Revue Collé I’ve always found collage to be a fascinating medium: this is weekly newsletter that explores contemporary collage. 2. Better Luck than Chuck...
Five Links #116
1. Bold Type The brilliant inclusive and accessible communication educator Ettie Bailey-King is running her Bold Type course again. The world increasingly...
Five Links #115
1. Atlas of Type This is a great directory of independent typefaces and foundries. (via Nicolas) 2. Superintelligence is a fairy tale. But chasing it can...
Five Links #114
1. Strangford Beautiful woodcut and riso prints. 2. FBI probes service selling 153M+ drives licenses File this under “why ’secure’ ID verification services...
Five Links #113
1. Accessibility getting dropped in the process When a design is approved as "can be implemented accessibly," the accessibility requirements should be...
Five Links #112
1. human.json This is a nice, simple protocol to assert the humanity of online content. I particularly like the vouches system to expand trust more quickly....
Five Links #111
1. Buy Fonts Save Lives Some great typefaces in here, I particularly like Timmons NY (2.0). All proceeds from these typeface sales go to Cancer Research UK...
Five Links #110
1. This hue shall pass This is a great iteration on colour contrast tools from Clearleft. It doesn’t just show you which colour combinations pass or fail...
Five Links #109
Hello! There’s a new look to these emails. I pushed some design tweaks to my personal site last weekend, and migrated the newsletter archive as well. If you...
Five Links #108
1. Matthew Butterick’s font license I’m adding this to my list of great typography licenses: easy to understand, flexible and the fonts are reasonably...
Five Links #107
1. Real or fake deepfakes quiz This was a difficult quiz – I scored a little over half, but that was mostly guessing. 2. David Airey on Being Freelance When...
Five Links #106
1. ByeDoom A nice little tool to quickly grab RSS feeds: Add any public account from Instagram, Facebook, Substack, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, X, TikTok or...
Five Links #105
1. Design Principles in Practice Make better design decisions when the right answer isn't obvious. 2. I believe in pixels In a world seemingly full of retina...
Five Links #104
1. Herbik This is a lovely serif typeface. 2. What if you said no? In the grand scheme of tech industry things to disagree with, this is a pretty low stakes...