Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“I never decided to go all in on AI, it just kept showing up. (…)

I wasn’t forced. I didn’t plan it. It was just inevitable. When you get a sharp knife, you don’t keep cutting with the blunt one. But somewhere along the way, I started noticing that this knife could slip.”

A sharp tool can still ruin the cut →
By José Torre

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Editor picks

• Stop worrying so much about AI →
  Worry about how to work with people.
  By Ed Orozco
• Technology as a design material →
  Designing with sensors.
  By Filipe Nzongo
• Design leaders need to jam with their teams →
  How business management killed craft apprenticeship.
  By Jon Daiello

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A sound wave typography system for Maple’s voice AI research →

Make me think

• A year of vibes →
  “It’s also important to know that some of the vibes come with intentional signalling. Plenty of people whose views you can find online have a financial interest in one product over another, for instance because they are investors in it or they are paid influencers. They might have become investors because they liked the product, but it’s also possible that their views are affected and shaped by that relationship.”
• You can’t opt out of accessibility →
  “Accessibility is everyone’s responsibility, always. It should be baked into every part of the process. From the initial concepts to the design to the development, through to testing, it is as much a part of building something as ‘building something’. Accessibility should be ingrained in every fibre of every step, process, and output such that it is inseparable. You can’t bake a cake without flour and expect to add it later.”
• They have to be able to talk about us without us →
  “That vital task of communicating to a large group gets even more daunting when you inevitably realize that, even if you were to find the perfect wording or phrasing for your message, you’d still never be able to deliver your story to every single person in your target audience by yourself anyway.”

Little gems this week

A product manager’s 48 reflections on 2025 →
By Adrian H. Raudaschl

A UX carol →
By Maximilian Speicher

Contrails and tiny text will probably kill us →
By Rita Kind-Envy

Tools and resources

• Error messages →
  A guide for people who never write.
  By Rita Kind-Envy
• The designer’s playbook for AI products →
  Research, case studies, and experiments.
  By Dára Sobaloju
• Leaning into the quiet →
  Healthier conversations, meetings, and collaboration.
  By Erin Schroeder

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