Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Design leadership is currently suffering from a bad case of mechanical thinking. We talk endlessly about cross-functional alignment, product development and operations, and predicting roadmaps. But mechanical systems are brittle. They crack the second an executive stakeholder pivots strategy, a competitor drops a new AI feature out of nowhere, or a team loses a seasoned designer in a month.”Rethinking design leadership with swarms and flocks →By Darren YeoEditor picksThinking outside the box (literally) →How AI agents started escaping their sandboxes.By Andrea Filiberto LucasWe’re gorging on borrowed trust →And it’s going to cost us.By Dan MaccaroneThe loom that raised its hand →Judgment as a bottleneck.By Takuma KakehiThe UX Collective is an independent design publication that elevates unheard design voices and helps...