Sidebar
The five best design links of the day, freshly redesigned
Sidebar launched on July 4, 2016 with 458 votes, #16 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Sidebar is a web app that curates and delivers five design links daily to subscribers. The service helps designers and creative professionals stay informed about notable design resources and trends without having to search the web themselves. It operates as a newsletter that arrives regularly with hand-selected content relevant to the design community.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
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The five best design links, every weekday.
On the value of cultural references, and the cost of losing them at scale. Where, in fact, is the entire industry of software going in the next decade? It’s the figures your font gives you by default, and the better ones it keeps a switch away. How a career of building creative teams and design systems led to AI tools that increase speed without lowering the quality bar. Human factors has reinvented itself every decade since Bell Labs, the oldest lessons are the ones pointing the way forward. Learn and understand web accessibility standards with interactive demos showing violations vs. solutions. Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room…from sidebar.io
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