Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.AI companies have spent the past year hiring forward-deployed engineers: engineers who sit inside a customer’s team, hear the problem firsthand, and ship against it. One count of 1,000 listings found the role grew 1,165% in a single year. This year I did a version of that job for my own newsroom, without the title, and it changed how I think about listening.Being heard runs on two clocks. Listening should be slow. Response should be fast.Nobody feels heard by a report →image.to.design — Convert screenshots into real HTML →[Sponsored] Paste a screenshot, get real HTML — reconstructed, not guessed. image.to.design beats ChatGPT and Claude on layout, fonts, and assets. Try it out.Editor picksBorrowed slopes →When newsrooms reach for the oldest kit in digital design.By Wira Indra KusumaWhat I told the CFO when he asked why...