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This week in design substrate

A long-form feature and three quick reads. Updated every Monday.

Cover story · 12 min

The case for token-snap drag, in one sentence

When you drag a layout edge, your tool should snap to the next token in your scale, not to the next pixel. It's the single change that elevates a builder from "novelty" to "production".

May 10 2026 · Plover Hexstrom
Behaviours

A visual JS designer, from first principles

May 06 · 6 min
Tooling

Why we shipped an MCP server before a UI

May 03 · 4 min
Motion

Paced scroll regions, explained

Apr 30 · 5 min