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Why the future of design belongs to creative thinkers and problem solvers Continue reading on UX Collective »

What 28 design leaders have said AI-native design really is Continue reading on UX Collective »

How systems become risky without anyone noticing. Alexander Undoing the Gordian | Source: Knot 1st-art-gallery.com No one decides to build a fragile system. No executive convenes a meeting to discuss how best to make operations inscrutable, unreliable, brittle. No engineer sets out to create software that no one can maintain or discern later on. No … Weiterlesen

Designers should be thriving in the age of AI. Here’s why we aren’t, why it’s probably our fault, and how we can fix it. The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour (source) Much has been said about the future of design in the age of AI. Some think the role will disappear completely. Others say only super-seniors will survive. … Weiterlesen

On AI, slot machines, and forgetting how to craft pixels. I’ve grown tired of AI lately… of what it does to me. Every new model, every new tool, every new workflow. Yes, they’re powerful. Yes, they let us do more. But there’s this weird disconnect growing between me and the things I make. When everything is instant, … Weiterlesen

Fifteen years ago, the iPhone killed Flash and nearly erased an entire design discipline. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Prototypes are no longer as special as they once were. They’re now the bare minimum. But this speed comes with limitations. Many AI-generated prototypes are never meant to survive past the moment they’re validated. They do their job in a meeting or a user test, but then they’re rebuilt by … Weiterlesen

Most AI features fail because they start with hype, not humans. Image Credit: AI Generated Image Most AI products fail before the first user interaction because they don’t solve a real user problem. That may sound dramatic, but I keep hearing the same sentence in executive rooms: “We need an AI feature. Our competitor just launched … Weiterlesen

Writing AI prompts isn’t just a new technical skill — it’s how we can make our own thinking visible In this collage: Baby photo in front of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania; “Towers on String — Variant Dispersed” by Haegue Yang, 2013; example of a writing instruction with corresponding output. Image credit: Personal photograph (Fallingwater, 2005); Haegue … Weiterlesen

A practical guide to designing with code in 2026 Someone drops a link in a thread — not a deck, not a Figma file — something you can click through, interact with. The conversation shifts from opinions to behavior. This keeps happening at Dust. We’ve been experimenting with making prototypes our default design artifact. The question driving us: What should designers … Weiterlesen