🟣 TOOOLS #22: Berd, Morphicons, Watermelon UI, Tegaki, Balsa UI

<!-- ============ TOOOL OF THE WEEK ============ --> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="Margin:0;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:21px;letter-spacing:0;color:#333333;font-size:14px"><img width="24" align="left" src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/ic-toooloftheweek.png" alt="Section Icon" title="Section Icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0"><span style="color:#7b788c;line-height:24.7px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;font-size:13px">&nbsp; &nbsp;TOOOL OF THE WEEK</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#fafafe" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;border-radius:28px 28px 0 0;background-color:#fafafe;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:20px 20px 0 20px;Margin:0"> <a target="_blank" href="https://berd.xyz/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-22/berd-block-open-source-ai-agent-desktop-app.jpg" alt="Berd, an open-source desktop app where every AI agent shows up as its own little character with its own task" width="100%" title="Tool image" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:12px;max-width:544px"></a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#fafafe" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;background-color:#fafafe;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:24px 22px 0 22px;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:21.6px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://berd.xyz/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;line-height:21.6px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif">Berd</a></strong></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#fafafe" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;background-color:#fafafe;border-radius:0 0 28px 28px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0 22px 24px 22px;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Berd turns AI agents into a small cast of characters, each with its own task, its own memory of the project, and whichever model suits the job. Hand one competitor research, another the first draft of the microcopy, a third the prototype cleanup, and follow all three from one screen instead of juggling chat tabs. Weird on purpose, free, and open source, built in-house at Block, Jack Dorsey's Square and Cash App company, where the teams use it daily.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- ============ ALSO ON THE RADAR ============ --> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="Margin:0;padding-top:80px;padding-bottom:40px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:21px;letter-spacing:0;color:#333333;font-size:14px"><img align="left" src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/ic-ontheradar.png" width="24" alt="Section Icon" title="Section Icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0"><span style="line-height:24.7px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#6f6d7f">&nbsp; &nbsp;ALSO ON THE RADAR</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- Radar Tool 1 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:104px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.morphicons.com/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-22/morphicons-svg-icon-morphing-animation-library.gif" width="80" alt="Morphicons icon" title="Tool icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:14px"></a> </td> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.morphicons.com/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Morphicons</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Morph Lucide, Tabler, Heroicons or any stroke icon into any other, springy and smooth, and works on any grid.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- Spacer between radar tools --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Radar Tool 2 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:104px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://ui.watermelon.sh/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-22/watermelon-ui-react-components-dashboards-blocks.gif" width="80" alt="Watermelon UI icon" title="Tool icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:14px"></a> </td> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://ui.watermelon.sh/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Watermelon UI</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">A free, open-source collection of polished, ready-made interface components, dashboards, and page blocks, built to be copied straight into a project.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- Spacer between radar tools --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Radar Tool 3 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:104px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://gkurt.com/tegaki/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-22/tegaki-animated-handwriting-from-fonts.gif" width="80" alt="Tegaki icon" title="Tool icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:14px"></a> </td> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://gkurt.com/tegaki/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Tegaki</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Animated handwriting from any font, stroke by stroke, and it can animate as text streams in, so an AI reply can write itself out by hand instead of just appearing.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- Spacer between radar tools --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Radar Tool 4 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:104px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://balsa-ui.com/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-22/balsa-ui-agent-native-component-system-vue-react.gif" width="80" alt="Balsa UI icon" title="Tool icon" 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Emoji','Noto Color Emoji',sans-serif">&#x1F4D6;</span> <span style="color:#759ee3">ARTICLE</span></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-become-an-ai-designer-ff8ee8aed205?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>How to become an AI Designer</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">A working designer's account of going AI-native, not a think piece. Maya Brennan of Amplitude swapped Figma screens for click-through prototypes built with Claude and now ships her own designs, and she is candid that the speed came with a strange side effect: designs that felt transient.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- Spacer --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Read 2: YouTube --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:16.9px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:13px;padding-bottom:4px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important">Y COMBINATOR &nbsp;<span style="font-family:'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Noto Color Emoji',sans-serif">&#x1F3AC;</span> <span style="color:#dc9699">YOUTUBE</span></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvLKzsEwMw&t=463s&ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Designing Icons &amp; Graphics for the Original Mac</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Susan Kare on stage at Y Combinator's Startup School, walking through the Command key symbol, the Happy Mac, the hand pointer, and the system fonts, plus how she ended up at Apple in the first place. 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His answer is not less AI but more critique, history, and theory in how designers are taught, and a bit more organising among designers themselves.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- ============ UPDATES & NEWS ============ --> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="Margin:0;padding-top:80px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:21px;letter-spacing:0;color:#333333;font-size:14px"><img align="left" src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/ic-updatesnews.png" width="24" alt="Section Icon" title="Section Icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0"><span style="color:#7b788c;line-height:24.7px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;font-size:13px">&nbsp; &nbsp;UPDATES &amp; NEWS</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- News Item 1 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w34?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Claude Code gets a /design command in research preview: give it a brief, get a canvas of editable artboards back, pick one, and it builds that one</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- News Item 2 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://x.com/figma/status/2091923343075381653?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Figma adds a vector eraser and a paint bucket: rub out stray paths right on the canvas and recolor several regions in a single drag</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- News Item 3 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://slack.com/features/code-channels?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Slack launches Slack Code: channels where the whole team watches an AI agent build something, gives feedback, and nothing ships without sign-off</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- News Item 4 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://academy.claude.com/?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Anthropic launches Claude Academy, free courses and tutorials for getting started with Claude or rolling it out across a team</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- News Item 5 --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://www.getstark.co/blog/claude-connector/?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Stark launches a Claude connector: drop in a Figma file, a live URL, or an app build and get the accessibility issues back without leaving the chat</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- ============ ONE MORE THING ============ --> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="Margin:0;padding-top:80px;padding-bottom:40px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:21px;letter-spacing:0;color:#333333;font-size:14px"><img align="left" src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/ic-onemorething.png" width="24" alt="Section Icon" title="Section Icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0"><span style="color:#7b788c;line-height:24.7px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;font-size:13px">&nbsp; 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