Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“Right now I’m helping build software whose whole job is to package how one particular person thinks. The point is not to have this product replace anyone’s thinking with hers, but to take the way she works through a hard decision, the method she’s spent a career building, and hand it to anyone.
We are, in the plainest terms, productizing a person.
If that gave you a little Black Mirror chill, good. This isn’t science fiction. It’s a much closer reality than you imagine.”
Bottle your judgment and make it outlive you →
By Dan Maccarone
The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetings →
[Sponsored] Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot. Give it a try on your next meeting.
Editor picks
- Chat is the wrong interface for AI →
The problem with over-simplification of AI Agents’ interfaces.
By Maxim Kich - Own the room, or leave it →
Unlearning the habit that quietly dissolves design’s authority.
By Jessa Parette - Rethinking friction in an AI world →
Why the best UX often disappears. And when it shouldn’t.
By Darren Yeo
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Drawesome: a drawing toolbar for React →
Make me think
- The hierarchy of competence →
“Some people are easy to work with. Not pleasant, not agreeable, easy. You hand them something and it stops being your problem, and the relief you feel has very little to do with whether you enjoy their company. I’ve spent a long time trying to name what those people actually do differently.” - The last product design tool →
“The design system has already made all the visual decisions for me. When I use a rectangle that says “Dialog”, I know how my particular shade of dialog looks and works. All I am deciding is whether a dialog belongs at this point in the overall flow. An AI coding tool of choice maps the wireframe to real components, and those components bring their actual spacing, typography and behavior with them.” - The plateau of sad gray icons →
“I’ve been building a Claude Code prototype for a payroll product using a barebones design system. Without strong, specific UX patterns to lean on, the agent started filling the gaps by inventing its own. Calling this inventing is generous. The agent just repeated the same pattern over and over.”
Little gems this week
The cybernetic application →
By Oliver Meredith Cox
The architecture of watching work →
By Takuma Kakehi
Design @ ACME: Learning from Coyote’s mishaps →
By Perre DiCarlo
Tools and resources
- What I’ve learned writing for billions of users →
Insights from products that grow and grow.
By Nick DiLallo - Context files I always create →
What your AI co-designer can’t infer from your hex values.
By Lisa Demchenko - Design.md →
The one standard file carries your visual identity, for humans and agents.
By Patrick Neeman
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