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What do you do if your best design work is a small project? What 6 emojis can teach you about translating your impact “I am trying to show the value that I brought. But it seems I’m …
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Low cortisol solution to big problems The strange details we only notice when we slow down. In China, there is a movement called “tang ping”, or “lying flat”. It’s made up of people who …
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The death of the empty state in AI products AI products replaced 20 years of empty-state research with a prompt box, and the first-session drop-off shows it. Editor’s note: I wrote this article …
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Be like water: Rethinking Design Process and AI experimentation What Bruce Lee can teach us about structure, flow and intention Intention over motion AI has made a big splash in the UX Design …
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How I use AI to partner on design problems A design workflow where AI holds the context, I do the thinking: from brainstorm to prototype Working through a complex design problem means holding a lot …
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Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world Why design isn’t found in a prompt, but in toil and the creator’s “thinking hand.” Lucasfilm and the Art of the Matte Painting For close to …
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Recently, I was working on a problem. It was some flow that wasn’t really working, and I did what I now often do: I opened Claude and started talking. Not with a clear prompt, really. More like…
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Prompt is not interface, UI patterns that won’t survive, how to make Claude follow your design system Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The most advanced artificial …
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Discovery is the work AI gives back Productivity is the floor of AI’s value, not the ceiling. New McKinsey research on where the durable returns actually live, and what that means for teams …
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The left-handed rope On a sacred design pattern, and the long reach of small reversals On Ishigaki Island, where I live, the rope you hang at the entrance of a sacred grove is twisted in the opposite …
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Everything I know about AI, I learned from a genie A content designer's guide to not wasting your wishes on something stupid I was a lucky child. My parents and grandparents spent hours reading and …
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How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma 4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds. Claude Code can now write directly …