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Design LobsterOther

by Ben Strak

Who uses, recommends or left Design Lobster, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Casey Newton
Technology journalist and founder of Platformer, an independent newsletter about AI, social platforms and the people shaping technology; co-host of the Hard Fork podcast.
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Ben Strak's short and sweet Monday newsletter offers weekly inspiration to designers and anyone else curious about the world around them. A good example of how newsletters thrive on the authentic curiosity of the people who write them.

Platformer's standing page of the newsletters and podcasts Casey Newton recommends, each with a note signed by him. The page carries no publication date; captured 2026-09-04.

2024-01-16·platformer.substack.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.