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095 · Published on 2026-05-09

Design Daily #095

Today's picks: Pentagram designs Caligra developer terminal, MolmoAct 2 open-source 3D vision model, Omi A11Y accessibility scanner, 80 tok/s LLM on 12GB VRAM

Design Daily #095

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Design Inspiration & Novel Things

Design Picks (Sidebar.io)

Pentagram — Caligra c100 Developer Terminal

Pentagram, the world's largest independent design consultancy, designed a developer terminal for Caligra — blending CLI aesthetics with product design. 🔗 View Details

Smashing Magazine — Designing stable interfaces for streaming content

How to design stable UIs for AI-generated streaming content without layout shift. 🔗 Read Article

The bottleneck was never the code

Deep reflection on the age of AI coding tools — the real bottleneck was never code. 🔗 Read Article

CSS or BS?

Keith Cirkel's deep dive into CSS's real role in modern web development. 🔗 Read Article

Show HN Creative Projects

Let Go — A Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

A Clojure-like language implemented in Go. Lightning fast startup at just 7ms. 🔗 GitHub

Mochi.js — Bun-native high-fidelity browser automation

Built on Bun.js, this browser automation library prioritizes speed and reliability. 🔗 Website

Git for AI Agents — re_gent

A version control system designed for AI Agents, making AI collaboration as traceable as git. 🔗 GitHub

Product Hunt Highlights

MolmoAct 2 — Open-source 3D Vision AI Model

Allen Institute for AI releases MolmoAct 2, built on Objaverse 800K+ 3D dataset. Open source. 🔗 Product Hunt

Manuscripts.app — Academic Writing Tool for Mac

A Mac app designed for academic researchers, from draft to submission workflow. 🔗 Product Hunt

Omi A11Y — Free WCAG Accessibility Scanner

Chrome extension that scans any webpage for WCAG 2.1 A/AA violations. No sign-up needed. 🔗 Product Hunt

BugDrop — Open-source Feedback Widget

Free, open-source website feedback widget. Users report bugs with screenshots — issues auto-created in GitHub. 🔗 Product Hunt

Awwwards Winners

Simonholm.studio ⭐ Site of the Day

Minimalist design studio website with clean typography and subtle interaction effects. 🔗 Visit Site | Awwwards Details

KayiSeisagu 🏅 Honorable Mention

Brand design project website with bold, expressive use of color. 🔗 Visit Site | Awwwards Details

THE UN KNOWN ® 🏅 Honorable Mention

Next-gen creative consultancy website with dark tones and generous typography. 🔗 Visit Site | Awwwards Details

Dezeen Design News

Yokohama Port Terminal recognized as "first major" parametric building

FOA's Yokohama International Port Terminal acknowledged as a parametric architecture milestone. 🔗 Read Article

Iris van Herpen Met Gala dress with 15,000 glass bubbles

The designer created a Met Gala dress using 15,000 glass bubbles. 🔗 Read Article

🤖 AI Zone

🔬 Breakthroughs

80 tok/s & 128K context on 12GB VRAM with Qwen3.6 35B A3B

LocalLLaMA community breakthrough: running a 35B model at 80 tok/s on 12GB VRAM via llama.cpp MTP. 🔗 Reddit Discussion

🎮 Fun AI

HiDream-O1-Image — Pixel space model, 8B params, no VAE needed

New image generation model operating directly in pixel space. No VAE encoding/decoding needed. More efficient. 🔗 Reddit Discussion

🍿 Industry Drama

DeepMind employee calls for AI labs to go public

A DeepMind employee argues that private AI labs should IPO, letting regular people invest in AI's future. 🔗 Reddit Discussion

💡 Highlights

🔥 Pentagram Developer Terminal: World-class design consultancy designs for developer tools

🔥 MolmoAct 2 Open-source 3D Vision Model: 800K+ 3D dataset open-source vision model

🔥 80 tok/s on 12GB VRAM: Running 35B models on consumer GPUs at production speed

🔥 Omi A11Y Accessibility Scanner: Free, open-source WCAG compliance checker

✦ That's today's Design Daily. If you find interesting design resources, feel free to share! See you tomorrow!

Updated: 2026-05-09 23:00 CST