Guides and reading on design and AI
Articles, docs and courses worth your time on design, motion, prompting and building with AI. Each card sums up the one idea to take away, so you know if it is worth reading now.
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Figma shadersGuides & readingA menu of built-in Figma effects (Halftone, Dither, Bloom, Warp) and animatable procedural fills.
PRINT MagazineGuides & readingA design magazine to browse for culture, creativity and visual curation beyond tool docs.
50 Design Styles Every Designer Should Know for Better PromptingGuides & readingName a style (Light Academia, Filigree) instead of 'clean' or 'modern', with its elements and mood.
3Blue1BrownGuides & readingHard math, physics and CS ideas made visual with animation and changes in perspective.
Advisor tool (Claude API)Guides & readingA cheap executor model asks a stronger advisor mid-run, in one request; the big model only steers.
AI FoundationsGuides & readingAI Foundations YouTube channel with AI content
AI in the EnterpriseGuides & readingAn official PDF of lessons from companies adopting AI, useful as a checklist for rollout decisions.
Andrej Karpathy (channel)Guides & readingBuild-it-from-scratch lessons that code neural networks up to GPT, step by step.
Anthropic's prompt engineering docsGuides & readingPrompting habits for Claude: be clear, give examples, structure prompts with XML tags.
Apple Human Interface GuidelinesGuides & readingPlatform conventions for layout, navigation, color, type and components on Apple devices.
Awesome LLM AppsGuides & readingWorking one-file agent and RAG examples that need only an API key, ready to copy and adapt.
Ben AIGuides & readingFollow-along AI automation tutorials for non-technical people, plus strategies to put AI to work.
Building effective agentsGuides & readingStart simple; five workflow patterns: chaining, routing, parallel, orchestrator, evaluator.
CC for PMsGuides & readingLearn Claude Code by doing real PM work in it: parallel agents, sub-agents and project memory.
Dan MartellGuides & readingTeaching-first videos on building AI businesses, from a founder who builds AI startups.
DeepLearning.AIGuides & readingShort practical AI courses plus a weekly newsletter; learning paths picked by a questionnaire.
FuturepediaGuides & readingTutorials on using AI tools and picking up AI skills for work and business.
Google's whitepapers on Kaggle: Agents Companion and Prompt EngineeringGuides & readingTwo Google whitepapers: how to architect and evaluate agents, and prompting techniques.
Jeff SuGuides & readingSystems and tools to get office work done faster, made for people starting their careers.
Liam OttleyGuides & readingHow to start and scale an AI automation agency or AI SaaS, told from running one.
LLM Wiki (Andrej Karpathy’s proposal)Guides & readingA wiki in three layers (raw sources, agent-written pages, schema file) with ingest, query and lint.
Matt WolfeGuides & readingA weekly roundup of the AI news and tools that matter, with a companion directory and newsletter.
Nate HerkGuides & readingHands-on AI automation tutorials built around real business examples.
Nick SaraevGuides & readingTutorials and courses on Claude Code, Codex, n8n and Antigravity for building AI skills.
No PriorsGuides & readingLong talks with engineers, researchers and founders on AGI, research and what AI will disrupt.
OpenAI's guides on agents and AI use casesGuides & readingTwo OpenAI guides: agent building blocks (tools, orchestration, guardrails) and ranking use cases.
Pathwise Academy: prompt guideGuides & readingA library of ready prompts to paste into a chatbot, grouped by topic with matching short videos.
Prompting guide 101, Google WorkspaceGuides & readingExample Gemini prompts sorted by task and by job role, ready to adapt to your own Workspace work.
Real-world generative AI use cases (Google Cloud)Guides & readingCases by industry and six agent types: customer, employee, creative, code, data, security.
Sabrina RamonovGuides & readingFree AI lessons from a solo founder who runs social media with AI agents.
Sandeep SwadiaGuides & readingTalks on success, modern life and being human, from a former tech executive's view.
Stanford AI IndexGuides & readingYearly AI numbers and trends from independent sources, with a 2017 to 2025 archive of past reports.
The AI AdvantageGuides & readingPractical AI tutorials plus weekly updates on what changed.
Tina HuangGuides & readingAI, coding, tech, career and self-study videos built around results with less effort.
Websites to give AI tasteGuides & readingA prompt that turns 2 to 5 references into a style brief of up to 250 words, replacing adjectives.