Design Daily #095
"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