A survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.

Take the survey and help map all the aspects of a developer's life that are not code, especially as AI starts disrupting the very nature of our jobs.

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This series slips into the hours after the badge comes off—the unbranded life where designers become someone the job never meets.

Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you’re junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose.

When your manager is paying more attention to AI than your creative role, what can you do?

What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

Code is possibly the best medium to learn mathematics, and meta-skills for learning in general.

I didn’t expect to get so tired of reading LLM output.

Junior programming roles are getting destroyed by AI. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title.

What design engineering is, how it’s changed, and where it’s going.

The market is repricing software engineering labor—collapsing the premium for generalists while raising the value of deep expertise.

Interactive simulation: competitive firms over-automate because each captures the full cost saving but only 1/N of the demand destruction.

Most companies default to a schedule designed for managers that systematically destroys the cognitive capacity for the work they actually need.

Vibe coding is useful for discovery, but software engineering starts when generated code has to be reviewed, owned, operated, and safely changed.

“AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work.

The closing talk from Tokyo Design Forum 2026. The first piece in The Forum Library.

AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.

About 10 years ago, I realized all the best programmers I had worked with had something in common: they were fast.

Right now, it’s too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning.