Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“It might be a sign of changing times and of our industry, it might be a marketing push from the companies betting big on AI. I don’t know. But there seems to be a sort of urgency for something new. For speed. For freedom. For paving a new path. For simplicity. For flexibility. A push for something else rather than Design Thinking as the standard design process.”
The natural design process →
By Filip Mishevski
What 200+ designers revealed about AI in 2026 →
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Editor picks
- When AI passes the capitalist Turing test →
AI was meant to augment human intelligence.
By Natalia Talmina, PhD - Innovation is not magic; it’s technique →
Will your product change the world?
By Kike Peña - The design vibeshift →
Code is becoming our new canvas.
By Pablo Stanley
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David Jonathan Ross’s glyph navigator →
Make me think
- Saying “no” In an age of abundance →
“But wait, we have AI now. We don’t have to say no to 1,000 things. We can say yes to all the things — generate them all, simultaneously!” - The software sovereignty scale →
“Digital sovereignty depends less on where software comes from and more on who controls it. This post introduces a scale showing which technologies can never be taken away.” - Is there too much design in design systems? →
“Which raises an uncomfortable question: if the industry is hiring three designers for every engineer, who’s actually implementing all this design work?”
Little gems this week
AI’s text-trap: Moving towards a more interactive future →
By Ishan Korde
Bringing buttons back: rethinking how smart smartphones should be →
By Daley Wilhelm
Jony Ive, Ferrari, and love of design →
By Kartscrut
Tools and resources
- Designing useful ads →
AI utility + digital advertising.
By Tanner Walsh - What design leaders must unlearn →
The path to designing for AI.
By Arin Bhowmick - Emotional design →
Let’s design for silence.
By Maxim Kich
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