Digital Skills

I’ve been designing for a long time. I’ve burned out, and I’ve watched other designers burn out. The job market is brutal, AI is changing everything, and companies still don’t value design the way they should. All true. But there’s a thread underneath all of it that isn’t called out enough, and it’s one we … Weiterlesen

And is it really that bad? Photo by Mia Anderson on Unsplash An article published in 2025 proposed a newly observed disorder called Generative AI Addiction Syndrome (GAID), describing how some users feel anxious when cut off from AI, lose sleep over it, or withdraw from social contact. Is AI really addictive, or is it the way … Weiterlesen

Amy Huang has a fintech and healthcare background including creative direction at Citibank and consulting for BCBSRI. She has a B.F.A. in Industrial Design from RISD as well as various other qualifications in business and tech including Harvard Business School Online. Amy moved from China to New Zealand when she was five years old and currently lives … Weiterlesen

“I run my life from terminal.” Peak 2026 energy. And I get it — I really do. Hilary Gridley was just on “How I AI” — the sister podcast to Lenny’s Newsletter — talking about turning #ClaudeCode into your personal life operating system. Calendar management, task capture, workflow automation, preference learning — all orchestrated from a terminal window. She narrates her day to Claude, … Weiterlesen

Building intuitive AI products requires designing for context management Selecting the right context among the noise can make the world of difference Large language models are becoming remarkably good at executing tasks. They can summarize documents, generate content, analyze data, and even reason through complex problems in ways that feel almost human. In many cases, … Weiterlesen

Human-Centred Design has grown up. It’s time we did too We spent twenty-five years making technology work for users. Now we need to make it work for human beings. These are not the same thing, and the distance between them is where a generation of harm accumulated. In the year 2000, Steve Krug published three words … Weiterlesen

That’s the problem. The skills you dismissed just became the most expensive ones on your team. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Language has always evolved. But this time, it’s being rewired faster than most of us can keep up with, and our sentences are caught in the middle. There’s a word you’ll have noticed lately. It turns up in LinkedIn posts, academic lectures, workplace emails, and the kind of semi-formal prose that used to carry a whiff … Weiterlesen

AI didn’t teach designers to code. It gave them back the decisions that were always theirs. I’ve been thinking about a particular kind of frustration that most designers I know have felt at least once or probably more. You finish a component. You’ve thought through every state, every transition, the exact weight of the animation as … Weiterlesen