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...
What can destroy us can also save us. Here’s how I think we can stay in charge of the choice.From the Rocky Horror Picture Show, sourceCasey Harrell is a climate activist. For years, ALS had been slowly taking his speech, until even the people closest to...
How tech culture impacts how we understand ourselves through appsPhoto by blue sky on UnsplashIn the last 20 years, the tech world has transformed parts of humanity into one-dimensional digital zombies. Sadly, you can hold me personally responsible. Let me...
What Config India 2026 revealed about the expanding possibilities of design.Something is changing in the world of design, and Bengaluru offered a fascinating glimpse of where it’s heading. Thousands of designers, exciting new capabilities, and conversations...
Here is how to use Claude and a handful of guardrails to build a design system that developers respect and clients can actually ship.Continue reading on UX Collective »
Designers should understand code the way an architect understands stone: what it can do, not how to cut it. AI now does the cutting.The same card in the design file and in the browser with real data. Image by the author.Early in The Fountainhead, Howard...
A gym, a morning radio broadcast, and a streak counter are all answers to one question: how do you get someone to keep going when you…Continue reading on UX Collective »
A reviewer’s hand hovers over an approve button while the work it approves has already moved on without them. AI assisted.Agents now act before we ask and reach past what we authorized. A person in the loop isn’t enough if nobody owns the outcome. Here’s...
It was about what a designer really needed to know about shipping to production, and what people truly wanted from online learningContinue reading on UX Collective »
AI is bringing content design, enterprise content strategy, knowledge management, and model behavior into the same user experience. Our ways of working haven’t caught up.Image generated by ClaudeImagine a finance manager trying to understand why a supplier...
The switchboard operator’s job was automated out of existence. The work it became, the invisible systems that now connect every call, is worth more than the job ever was. AI is about to do the same thing to the app.The people buying AI are blunt about the...