“Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is the race towards stakeholder alignment. Designers are both uniquely vulnerable to losing this race and uniquely positioned to win it.”
The fastest gun in UX: Why your team is telling the wrong story →
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Editor picks
Design in the material you ship →
Understanding code the way an architect understands stone.Design v ADHD →
The myth of “ADHD-friendly design.”A founder with a tool is not a founder with a clue →
Who wins and who fails.
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How post-war France invented the future, and then stopped →
Make me think
Your product is not the center of the universe →
“Some classic traits of product-centric thinking:
- Expecting people to come to you to get work done.
- Building integrations so other products plug directly into you.
- Asking people for context and preferences they’ve already shared somewhere else.
- Trying to own AI access by building your own agent inside the product.”Fast is a design decision →
“In Enterpriseland bureaucracy runs the show: designers deliberate with PMs and engineers on the final state, and eventually they get what they want. But the users suffered: they would spend up to minutes at a time waiting for their dashboards and applications to load up.”Everyone is starting over →
“It’s the question rattling around in the head of every designer whose hair is now more gray than not. The careers that thrive now are the ones willing to become someone new, over and over.”
Cool finds
Apple Music’s new logo was shaped by a bath of mineral oil →
Careers & more
What if AI sets us free? →
What can destroy us can also save us.AI doesn’t care about your job title →
How to measure your exposure to AI and lower the risk.Creative intention →
Is a chef less of a chef if someone else plates the dish?
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