🟣 TOOOLS #17: Animos, Human Web Museum, Gradient Lab, Transitions.dev, Decoy Font

   TOOOL OF THE WEEK

   ALSO ON THE RADAR

Museum of the Human Web

A hybrid physical and digital museum celebrating the history of the human-built web.

Gradient Lab

A free, no-signup gradient tool with 20+ animated shader modes and 4K export to image or video, no watermarks.

Transitions.dev

A library of ready-made UI transitions you can lift straight into a project: modal opens, icon swaps, button states, the small motions that make an interface feel considered.

Decoy Font

A free Mixfont experiment that stays readable to people but throws AI off the scent, pairing every letter with a decoy so models misread the text.

   A FEW READS & LISTENS

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

Taste Cannot Be Delegated

Aurélie Radom argues that taste is not something you can crowdsource, A/B test, or hand to a model. It comes from years of looking closely and building your own reference library. A good case for protecting your eye while everyone races to automate.

SLACK DESIGN  📖 ARTICLE

We Didn't Teach Our Designers AI, We Built a Place to Learn It Together

Instead of rolling out AI training from the top down, Slack's design team built a space where not knowing was the point and people learned from each other. Worth stealing if your team is quietly figuring this out too.

MY DESIGN SIDE  📖 ARTICLE

Product Designers Are Liars

The argument: designers slid from making things into running workshops and strategy decks, and AI is now calling the bluff on anyone who quietly stopped designing. Provocative title, but the point lands, and it is worth thinking about.

   UPDATES & NEWS

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an agent that takes a brief and hands back finished slides, docs, and web apps, working across your connected apps and running tasks on a schedule

Figma now maps color, type, and spacing to the variables already in your file when you bring a screen in from code, instead of dropping them onto the canvas as fixed values

Moonshot's Kimi K3 became the first open model to beat every proprietary rival at building web interfaces, and demand was so high that new signups paused within days

Claude Fable 5 is now part of every Max and Team Premium plan at half the usage limits

Canva Code 2.0 rolled out to everyone, free accounts included, so anyone can build and edit AI-generated sites and apps with drag-and-drop and real-time collaboration

Linear introduced Loops, where you describe a recurring job in plain language and its agent runs it on a schedule or when something triggers it, with full context on your workspace

   ONE MORE THING ...

A CASE FOR PERSONALITY

"The more everything starts to look like the same AI slop, the more a little personality goes a long way. I stop for the stuff that feels handmade."