Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “For more than a decade, Figma defined modern product design. It made collaboration effortless, turned design into a shared language, and became the default workspace for teams building software. But as AI reshapes how products are planned, prototyped, and shipped, the central question is the extent of Figma’s usefulness. … Weiterlesen
AI is redefining work faster than experience can be passed on. Image source: Getty Images Mentorship has traditionally depended on mentors having experience that mentees have not yet had the opportunity to acquire. But what happens when the profession changes faster than experience can accumulate? I’ve spent most of my professional life on both sides of mentorship. … Weiterlesen
A concept on the horizon, explored A token holds a single decision. A component is a whole assembly. The interesting work lives in the gap between them, and people have worked that gap for years under different names. What it never had was one shared definition that every tool could build from. That gap used to be … Weiterlesen
The press never tires. The inspector does. AI assisted. It costs ten times more to refute than making it. Generative AI drove the cost of making to zero. The fix is a design problem, not a fact-checking race. In 2013 an Italian programmer named Alberto Brandolini watched a political talk show and posted a single … Weiterlesen
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The judgment most discovery practice leaves undeveloped Image created by Author using DALL-E 3 You can measure what happened after you released it. What most product discovery practice never examines, and has no frame for examining, is whether the human reasoning that produced it was sound. AI is compressing the distance between idea and delivery faster than … Weiterlesen
Why bad UX is often a business decision, not a design failure. There’s a screen most people have seen at least once. You’re trying to cancel a subscription. You’ve made up your mind. You click the button that looks like it starts the process. And then something strange happens. The page that loads isn’t a cancellation form. It’s a … Weiterlesen
Claude doesn’t know who you are. Here’s how I fixed that. In March I switched from ChatGPT to Claude. The sessions were better, but for the first four to six weeks there was a tax I kept paying at the start of every new chat. I’d set up a Cowork project for each design stream I was … Weiterlesen
As AI pulls product development closer to code, Config 2026 reveals Figma’s high-stakes gamble to survive an era of agentic workflows in a code-native environment At Config 2026, Figma is responding to AI pressure by expanding its canvas into code layers, motion, and shaders to prevent teams from bypassing design handoffs entirely. The real test … Weiterlesen