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“I’m a firm believer in Josef Müller-Brockmann’s principles of designing with intentionality. At the same time, I’ve watched the same demos Shumer has. I’ve felt that initial rush of adrenaline when viewing the insane capabilities of each AI model, with each release dropping my jaw to the floor.
But after hundreds of hours of actual implementation, the reality looks a lot more like a shifting burden.
We are mistaking the speed of generation for the speed of completion.”
Something big “might” be happening →
By Elvis Hsiao
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Editor picks
- When building is free, what’s worth building? →
AI coding tools are rewriting who gets to make software.
By Angele Lenglemetz - No, VR can’t make you walk in others’ shoes →
The shallowness of the “empathy machine.”
By Catherine Chu - Surveillance by default, consent by assumption →
The challenge with consumer security products.
By Andrea Filiberto Lucas
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Make me think
- Design docs considered harmful →
“Ask yourself how many design docs at your company get updated after implementation starts. If the doc were genuinely useful as a design tool, you’d update it as you learn. Nobody does. The doc’s job was never to guide the implementation. Its job was to get sign-off.” - How I’m dealing with the pressure to adopt AI as a designer →
“You wouldn’t adopt a new approach or tool without being sure it had a positive outcome for your work. AI is no different, and it doesn’t get a free pass just because the discourse is louder.” - If code is cheap, intent is the currency →
“When an agent can produce hundreds of lines in minutes, and the engineer driving that agent can have fairly minimal involvement in the actual writing of the code, the intent of the change becomes the most important factor in communicating what that code is for, why it exists, and how it fits into the larger project.”
Little gems this week
Field study: prototypes over mockups →
By Édouard Wautier
The craft of the instruction →
By Amber Bouabdallah
A love letter to the Pokédex →
By Daley Wilhelm
Tools and resources
- Building for agents →
Your users aren’t human anymore.
By Tony Beltramelli - UX questionnaires →
Is it rocket science?
By Maxim Kich - Agentic UX →
7 principles for designing systems with agents.
By 👩🏻💻 Alexandra Vasquez
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