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The fastest gun in UX

Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is stakeholder alignment.

apeatling.com

Your product is not the center of the universe

Established products have a problem. They assume they’re the center of someone’s universe, and everything should feed through them.

world.hey.com

Acceptance

If you haven’t accepted that these things are smarter than you, even in your own domain of expertise, I’m sorry.

newsletter.posthog.com

38 things we’ve learned about building AI products

Lessons from four years of building AI products at PostHog.

sightlessscribbles.com

The “disability dongle”: Why Silicon Valley hates me and you

Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake.

mamuso.dev

Imperfection

If you're reading this, I regret to inform you that I finally published an update to my personal site. I guess I made it.

purplesyringa.moe

Grieving the loss of details

Over the course of a year, I went from having a planned future to worrying about applying for disability.

jovo.design

AI invasive design

We can all agree ”AI native“ is a little bit bullshit, but does it have to be so dystopian?

blog.ronbronson.com

On being anything other than a designer

There’s that person in your job who is the one people call for all kinds of tasks that only “they can do.”

draganbabic.com

Design is a nice-to-have

I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.

doc.cc

Prompting as self-portrait

AI installed a distorted mirror where the blank page used to be.

renatovaldes.com

What happens when you can build it all yourself

What speed is doing to my expectations, my attention and the case for startup funding.

blog.murphytrueman.com

I can’t tell who’s teaching who anymore

On inheriting my mum’s sentences, and watching them read as a machine’s.

chrbutler.com

AI is a boring technology

Is AI as interesting as what it helps you do? I don’t think it is, and I mean that as a compliment.

hipuku.dev

The default is not a design decision

How the design industry built the infrastructure of sameness, and called it best practice.

michaelheap.com

I don’t want the details

Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.

voiceinthemachine.com

The fear of AI

When numbers do not match the fear, and where fear should be aimed.

tonyward.dev

Code as the source of truth

With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.

notes.erlend.sh

Making software hurts now

And hurt people hurt people.

martinfowler.com

Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code

Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems