The Spiral Climbs: Ideas Are Expensive, Systems Are Cheap
History doesn’t loop; it climbs the same corners to a higher floor. Late ’90s: Function first. Ship it; paint it later. 2010s: Design first. Cheaper dev, better…
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Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
In the first part of this series, we talked about the Decision Node Audit. We mapped out the internal workings of our AI system to…
Data security blocking AI adoption? A PM playbook
According to Atlassian’s State of Product 2026 report, 43 percent of product managers at large companies report that data security concerns are blocking their adoption…
What do you do if your best design work is a small project?
What 6 emojis can teach you about translating your impact Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
What do you do if your best design work is a small project?
What 6 emojis can teach you about translating your impact Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world
Why design isn’t found in a prompt, but in toil and the creator’s “thinking hand.” In a world of automated perfection, the “thinking hand” reclaims…
The thinking was never just mine
Maybe “mine” was never about origin. Maybe it was about what gets carried forward. I’ve been trying to figure out when, exactly, an idea becomes mine. Recently,…
Prompt is not interface, UI patterns that won’t survive, how to make Claude follow your design…
Prompt is not interface, UI patterns that won’t survive, how to make Claude follow your design system Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The most advanced…
Discovery is the work AI gives back
Productivity is the floor of AI’s value, not the ceiling. New McKinsey research on where the durable returns actually live, and what that means for…
AI Fails Silently: A Systems Perspective on AI Reliability
Traditional systems fail loudly. AI systems fail silently. That distinction is not philosophical. It is operational, and it fundamentally changes how systems must be designed,…
The left-handed rope
On a sacred design pattern, and the long reach of small reversals Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read…
The left-handed rope
On a sacred design pattern, and the long reach of small reversals Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read…
Everything I know about AI, I learned from a genie
A content designer’s guide to not wasting your wishes on something stupid I Dream of Jeanie I was a lucky child. My parents and grandparents spent…
How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma
4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds. Claude Code can now write directly to…
The prompt is not an interface
Why AI sent us back to the command line — On direct manipulation, visual intent, and the regression of AI tooling. Image generated via Google Gemini “Seeing comes before…