Collected consciousness
AI product design for empowering human creativity.
Thursday05/07
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The “passive income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
How chasing passive income destroys the focus needed to build meaningful products.
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Design.md supply
Search a curated design.md library for AI agents: colors, typography, spacing, and component patterns from top websites.
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You are not immune to mode collapse
How to keep digital experiences feeling authentic and genuinely useful.
Wednesday05/06
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Design from the inside
There is no ‘source of truth’ when everything changes at every moment.
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Cognitive Biases
A tool for identifying and mitagating the systematic errors in thinking that affect the decisions and judgments that humans make.
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A guide to agent-native Product Management
A step-by-step guide to using agentic capabilities for better product management
Tuesday05/05
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Design is the work
AI tooling are great if you already know what you’re building and why. It’s dangerous if you don’t.
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The five dimensions of craft
Timeless principles that separate products people use from products people love.
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Six characters
What the PNR locator on your boarding pass actually contains, and why fare calculations are written in a currency that does not exist.
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Designing, refining, and maintaining agent skills at Perplexity
How to build more predictable AI behaviors with agents.
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The world’s most complex machine
By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.
Monday05/04
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Prompt to Product: A virtual AI skills week for the humans in the loopSponsored
Learn how Google, Delivery Hero & others use AI in their workflows. Honest trainings & talks on what actually works. 18–22 May, online.
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Strong opinions, loosely held (in the age of AI)
AI changes who’s forming the opinion. Here’s what that means for your team.
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TUIStudio
A Figma-like visual editor for TUI applications. Drag-and-drop components, edit properties in real-time, and export to 6 frameworks with one click.
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Friday05/01
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On being a designer in the most interesting, exhausting moment of our careers
Prioritizing mental clarity over speed to maintain high craft standards.
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CSS or BS?
Think you know CSS? Real property or made-up nonsense? 20 rounds. No mercy.
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Boost design autonomy with an information pipeline
A four-step framework for building influence over product direction by closing the information gaps that large, complex organizations create.
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Users own the present. You own the future.
Users know their day. They don’t know your roadmap. Why smart users give convincing wrong answers, and how to do research that opens product space.
Thursday04/30
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Output isn’t design
The assumption behind AI design tools is very clear: that design is the act of producing.
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designtools.fyi
Compare design tools across different capabilities. Find the best tools for designers, design engineers, and non-designers.
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AI-generated UI is inaccessible by default
It doesn’t mean you can’t get AI to help with accessible code, you’ve just got to know what you’re doing.
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The world can’t keep up with AI Labs
Rapid AI scaling outpaces our ability to build safety guardrails.
Wednesday04/29
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Field notes from the in-between
What happens when a designer stops waiting.
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The accessibility problem isn’t design. It’s engineering.
Full-stack hiring, AI-generated code with no context, and a compliance-first mentality have combined to create a crisis hiding in plain sight.
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Scroll-driven animations
The new Animation Timeline API allows us to create dynamic scroll animations without any JavaScript.
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The moat or the commons
American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly.