Design Daily #088
"Design inspiration & novel things — 2026-05-02
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🏆 Awwwards Winners
Carlos Prado
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- A visually polished award entry worth studying for hero composition, motion rhythm, typography, and brand storytelling.
LOUD. Digital Product Company.
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- A visually polished award entry worth studying for hero composition, motion rhythm, typography, and brand storytelling.
Overwatch
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- A visually polished award entry worth studying for hero composition, motion rhythm, typography, and brand storytelling.
25 Years of University in Zlin
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- A visually polished award entry worth studying for hero composition, motion rhythm, typography, and brand storytelling.
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🚀 Product Hunt Highlights
- Filect — Organize Your Files With AI Discussion | Link
- Breaks — A quiet Pomodoro that lives in your menu bar. Discussion | Link
- Postiz — Agentic social media scheduler for agents like OpenClaw Discussion | Link
- nudge — Drop your tasks. AI auto-schedules your whole week. Discussion | Link
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🧪 Show HN & Novel Projects
- Show HN: Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands — 13 HN points
- Show HN: Threej games – open-source gaming portal — 5 HN points
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🛠 GitHub Trending
- nexu-io/open-design — 🎨 Local-first, open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design. ⚡ 19 Skills · ✨ 71 brand-grade Design Systems 🖼 Generate web · desktop · mobile prototypes
- garrytan/gbrain — Garry's Opinionated OpenClaw/Hermes Agent Brain
- EvoLinkAI/awesome-gpt-image-2-API-and-Prompts — GPT-Image-2 API and Prompts
- kyegomez/OpenMythos — A theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture, built from first principles using the available research literature.
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🤖 AI Radar
Papers & Model Progress
- ExoActor: Exocentric Video Generation as Generalizable Interactive Humanoid Control — A practical AI research item to watch.
- Efficient Training on Multiple Consumer GPUs with RoundPipe — A practical AI research item to watch.
- Intern-Atlas: A Methodological Evolution Graph as Research Infrastructure for AI Scientists — A practical AI research item to watch.
Community Finds
- I built a transformer in C++17 from scratch — no PyTorch, no BLAS, no dependencies. Trains on CPU. 0.83M params, full analytical backprop, 76 min to val loss 1.64. — r/LocalLLaMA, 130 upvotes.
- LCIET (LongCat Image Edit Turbo) - Lightweight and Powerful Editing Model — r/StableDiffusion, 43 upvotes.
- Asked ChatGPT to make me an image that looks normal on the surface, but gets terrifying as you start to really examine it. — r/ChatGPT, 1866 upvotes.
- Software engineering jobs hit their highest posting since november 2023 — r/singularity, 106 upvotes.
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💡 Highlights
🔥 Awwwards cover pick: a fresh visual reference with local screenshots included.
🔥 Product Hunt signal: new products continue to package AI into more concrete workflows.
🔥 AI community finds: Reddit and Hugging Face point to more visual, local, and interactive AI tools.
✦ That is today’s Design Daily. See you tomorrow!
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