Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“The way we talk to technology has always said something about us. We barked commands at early voice recognition software. We typed queries into search engines like telegrams. Now we chat, negotiate, apologize, and occasionally vent to systems that, by any reasonable measure, couldn’t care less. What’s changed isn’t just the technology. It’s the tone.”
Should we be kind to machines (for our own sake, really)? →
By Dora Czerna
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Editor picks
- A designer’s path →
From faster pencil to AI Experience Architect.
By Patrick Neeman - Designing the Human+AI system →
The new product mandate.
By Daniel Ruston - The best AI tools make users better →
Most AI tools only make them faster.
By Daisy Chen
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Make me think
- Your design system might be AI-ready. Your organisation probably isn’t. →
“I’ve been watching the design systems community gear up for AI with considerable energy. Token structures are getting cleaner, documentation is becoming more explicit, and component naming is moving from visual description to semantic intent. Teams are putting in serious structural work, and it matters.” - Don’t outsource the learning →
“There’s a default loop most of us have settled into. You paste in a spec or error message. The model hands you a fix. The symptom vanishes. You ship. Somewhere in that loop, the messy struggle between problem and solution stops happening at all.” - The text is not the product →
“It is a widespread fallacy that by using AI, students can learn faster. Another dean of my university (let’s be graceful and not mention the discipline) recently said in a meeting that students could use AI to let it summarize “500 pages of text” for them. But why should an employer want to hire graduates who have just read the AI summary of these 500 pages, rather than actually having worked through them?”
Little gems this week
The genius of Claude’s branding: less hype, more humanity →
By Ewelina Surlej
Opening your place to the street →
By Hiroshi Sato
Two gears, one compass: designing at velocity while sustaining quality →
By Ioannis Nousis
Tools and resources
- AI UX debt: a new bottleneck →
The illusion of completion and the birth of the ghost.
By Zeeshan Khalid - Your DESIGN.md should tell a story →
How to write a DESIGN.md file Claude can actually use.
By Lisa Demchenko - The undo problem in AI products →
AI products skipped undo and shipped branching as the retrofit.
By Adi Leviim
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