🟣 TOOOLS #27: QuiverAI, Designeer, Squints, Atlas, Lightmeter

   TOOOL OF THE WEEK

   ALSO ON THE RADAR

Designeer

A curated collection of interface craft, component libraries, AI tools and visual assets for people who build interfaces, plus a directory of design engineers worth following.

Squints

A free Chrome extension with design tools for the live web: measure spacing, check type and color, overlay grids, and slow down or scrub any animation.

Lightmeter

An iPhone camera app that captures natural, raw photos with authentic film looks and zero AI processing, private by design.

Atlas

A native Mac app for collecting visual references, with a grid, a free-form canvas and an endless drift view of the same library, everything stored on your own disk.

   A FEW READS & LISTENS

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

The strategic designer: navigating the Jevons paradox in the AI age

Daniel Ruston applies the Jevons paradox, the 1865 finding that more efficient steam engines drove coal use up, to design: when AI makes the making cheap, demand for design grows. What grows is the need for judgment, and he shows how a designer moves from producing screens to deciding what gets built.

LENNY'S PODCAST  🎬 TALK

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI

Stripe's head of design Katie Dill on what she calls zombie UI, the generic interfaces that appear when a team lets AI build without a point of view. Twenty minutes from the Lenny and Friends Summit on keeping intent and care in the details while the team ships far more than it used to.

ADOBE DESIGN  📖 ARTICLE

The growing premium of originality

Behance founder Scott Belsky argues that the easier it gets to copy, the more an original is worth, and that feeds full of lookalike work will push people toward things a person clearly made. His tell for that is visible flaws and an origin story, which is a good argument for leaving some rough edges in.

   UPDATES & NEWS

Midjourney's editor now touches only the pixels you select, and its tile mode makes patterns that repeat without a visible seam

Figma auto layout gets vertical wrap, so overflowing content flows into a new column

Framer launches Skills, saved instructions that teach its agent your design system

Rive adds Brush, Pencil, Eraser, Bucket and Shape Bend, so artwork can be drawn by hand and animated in the same editor

Runway's free plugin puts AI image and video generation inside DaVinci Resolve

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first 5.5 model, at about 40 percent lower running cost than Opus 5

   ONE MORE THING ...

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