Vibe coding, corrupt personalization, responsible AI workflows

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“Vibe Coding began with a modest description: Karpathy framed it as a way to use AI as a coding assistant through natural language. But as the term spread, it was quickly inflated — spawning offshoots like “context engineering” and promises of faster prototyping, instant creation, and lowered barriers, even the idea that anyone could code without really coding. A lighter vision than the Metaverse, but one that also stretches language further than reality can hold.

Both are wrapped in the language of transformation.”

Vibe coding vs. the metaverse →
By Youjin Nam

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Editor picks

• You might be a victim of corrupt personalization →
  Is your feed populated by your interests or corporate interests?
  By Daley Wilhelm
• The airport: Where we pretend to have arrived →
  The junkspace non-place of the modern aerotropolis.
  By Violet Piper
• Honda Prelude’s Porsche problem →
  When mainstream brands borrow luxury design language, who wins?
  By Elvis Hsiao

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Brutal Types: unearthing Europe’s forgotten interwar letterforms →

Make me think

• AI as teleportation →
  “There are huge benefits. Global commerce is supercharged. Instead of commuting, people can spend more time with family and friends. Pollution is way down. The AGI company runs a sweet commercial of people teleporting to see their parents one last time before they die. At the same time, some weird things start happening…”
• The destination for AI interfaces is “Do What I Mean” →
  “Freed from interface bureaucracy, you want to optimise for capturing user intent with ease, expressiveness, and resolution — very different from the low bandwidth interface paradigm of jabbing single fingers at big buttons.”
• You don’t need animations →
  “When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, faster, and more enjoyable to use. They help you and your product stand out. But they can also do the opposite. They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying. They can even make your users lose trust in your product. So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience?”

Little gems this week

How can AI UI capture intent? →
By Sharang Sharma

Take your pleasure seriously: why joy sustains serious work →
By Takuma Kakehi

What digital UX can learn from the physical media revival →
By Andrew Tipp

Tools and resources

• Making Figma and Notion play ball →
  Convert text layers in Figma into Notion databases.
  By Ed Orozco
• Responsible AI workflows for UX Research →
  Human + machine.
  By Sahil Afrid Farookhi
• Auditing your design system for accessibility →
  How to fix A11y issues at the system-level.
  By Allie Paschal

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