Portfolios I seek inspiration from
- daybreak.studio
- Untold Studio
- My design inspiration stack on GitHub - always updating
- Portfolio inspiration - there are 250 samples, you have to search for the ones you like
- AI-native design guide
Design thinkers, I like to follow
- Flo Guo and her design engineering curriculum
- Pony Foo
- Elizabeth Laraki - check out her (now paywalled) post on how Google’s UX team localized Google Maps in India using incisive on-the-ground user research
- Christop Locher - his Notes tab shows how precisely some people can notice the nuances of design and human interactions. His bookshelf is beautiful, too.
- How should designers ship PRs
Other reading material
- Operating as an AI-native designer in 2026
- Linear founder Kaari’s thoughts on designing software
- Philosophy on Software Design - skimmed myself and fed into my Claude Code as a skill
- An account of how to design with Claude - you can always learn how others are getting more from AI
Design skills
- Interaction, curious designs like Devouring Details
- Interface craft
- Everything about Framer Motion layout animations, Maxime Heckel (2022)
- Impeccable - design fluency based on AI harnesses