🟣 TOOOLS #29: Voyager, Energy Icons, Leadership Folios, Evil Buttons, Prompt Motion

   TOOOL OF THE WEEK

   ALSO ON THE RADAR

Energy Icons

A free, open-source set of icons in two weights, with far deeper coverage of energy, climate and infrastructure subjects than general-purpose sets, plus a Figma plugin.

Leadership Folios

A curated collection of design leadership portfolios, from managers to VPs and founders, each annotated with why it works at that level and what to borrow from it.

Evil Buttons

A collection of animated buttons with an evil touch, each ready to drop into a project, plus an easter egg hunt hidden in the buttons for anyone who plays rough with them.

Prompt Motion

A gallery of motion pieces made with Claude, each shown with the prompt behind it, plus a customization feature that adapts any of them to your own project.

   A FEW READS & LISTENS

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

What the AI era owes you

Dan Maccarone looks at past waves of displaced workers and finds the same pattern every time: the promised retraining never arrives. His advice is to treat your career as a product you keep revising yourself.

CONTRA LABS  📖 REPORT

Creative Intelligence Report 2026

Contra Labs asked more than 150,000 working creatives how they use AI, and about 70% do, at the same rate from junior to senior. Cost is the main thing holding the rest back, and most work runs on a short list of tools.

ANTON LOVCHIKOV  📖 ARTICLE

Design slop wasn’t invented by AI

Anton Lovchikov had Claude clean up 700 lines of his app’s interface copy and found one concept under three names and error messages in three different tones. His conclusion after 20 years in design: the slop was there long before AI.

EMERGING PATTERNS  📖 REPORT

Design Leadership in 2026

Doug Powell and his design leadership seminar at Washington University surveyed 119 design leaders and found 93 different routes into the job. Fewer than a third studied at a design school, and 41% never had a mentor.

   UPDATES & NEWS

Mobbin is now an official Figma connector, so the Figma agent can pull references from 600,000+ shipped screens straight into your file

Paper releases Paper Mono 1.0, a free, open-source monospace family in eight weights

Shaders open-sources its engine and all 190+ components, and code export from its editor is now free

ProtoPie MCP leaves beta, so AI agents can now build prototypes from your team’s component libraries

Anthropic launches Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion, and Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta for every plan now

Midjourney tests a Thinking Mode that checks where an image missed the prompt and reruns it

The Figma agent is generally available, with file search, attachments and library guidelines it respects

   ONE MORE THING ...

A CONSTITUTION FOR DESIGNERS

A model for thinking about what makes someone a designer in the age of AI