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Sometimes you just want to play with microinteractions for mundane things, like a table of contents.

Agentic AI systems understand a goal, plan a series of steps to achieve it, execute those steps, and even adapt if things go wrong. Think of it like a proactive digital assistant. www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/beyo... #AI #ProductDesign

An agentic future elevates design into pure strategy, which is what the best designers have wanted all along. Crafting a great user experience is impossible if the way in which the business expresses its capabilities is muddied, vague or deceptive. veen.com/jeff/archive... #ProductDesign #AI

A growing number of digital products never reach the stage where a design system becomes necessary. In these environments, teams prioritize adaptability over consistency. www.designsystemscollective.com/the-growing-... #designsystems

You use AI to speed through work. Something feels off, hollow, not quite yours. You promise to use less AI next time. Time pressure hits. You reach for AI again. The cycle repeats. You wake up when you realize doing the work has become difficult or impossible. read.modrnmind.com/p/the-one-ca...

Or Fraggle Rock implies the existence of Fraggle Undertaker and Stone Cold Steve Fraggle

Maybe for the first time, we can make interactive products the way we’ve always made art. In conversation. By discovery. Flying by the seat of our pants until we finally see what we were trying to build. eleganthack.com/ill-know-it-... #ux #productdesign #creativity

This could have been a chart instead of a ridiculously nosy and overbuilt water bottle.

“Productivity benefits may come at the cost of skills necessary to validate AI-written code if junior engineers’ skill development has been stunted by using AI in the first place.” Note that this warning comes from @anthropic.com themselves.

@martinjordan.com sir, can you explain how this works? I made BundID with ELSTER ages ago, now I'm trying to set up my eID (finally got one from my Rathaus) and now I'm just getting this:

When you change UI, you’re not just changing pixels. You’re invalidating a mental model that took time to form. That cost is paid by every user, every time. aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcxo5ojob22c #ux #productdesign

To successfully argue for organizational change, designers need to be able to speak the language of management and understand the forces that drive markets and economies. uxdesign.cc/the-dilemma-... #ux #productdesign #leadership

A bit of a personal journey for me this one: Why "Not yet" is my favorite response when faced with a seemingly impossible request. writing.mariusz.cc/not-yet/

If you don’t find a way to align your team’s efforts and channel the collective energy and focus of the group on very specific outcomes, you are very likely going to end up in a situation akin to sailing to an unknown destination. airfocus.com/resources/gu... #productmanagement #ux

“Time and again, we see what happens when devices go to market without proper consideration of how they might be used to harm women and girls.”

Wrote a couple of words about AI tools that actually survived real (admittedly, mostly web) design work for me, after burning a bunch of money and time in the hype wave trying everything that comes out. writing.mariusz.cc/design-ai-to... #AI #ProductDesign #UXDesign

[Definining the problem] is a skill that has almost completely atrophied in an industry realigning around solving product problems (“put AI in it”) rather than customer problems (“as a user, I want to buy my juice”). productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/your-probl... #UXDesign #UX

The RAPID decision-making model provides transparency on decision accountabilities, reduces ambiguity, and streamlines the decision-making process. It establishes a common language and leaves no doubt about who is on point for each role. www.bain.com/insights/rap...

When AI people proclaim they have to build AI cause their AI is going to be a good AI while someone else might build evil AI do we call them Sloppenheimer? Asking for a friend.

What if rather than spending time proving our worth, we spend time expanding our definition of the “business case” to incorporate more ways of working and being? uxdesign.cc/a-designers-... #ux #productdesign

Designing for AI isn’t as alien as it sounds. The fundamentals (user needs, clear feedback, intuitive flows) don’t disappear just because there’s a language model involved. If anything, they matter more. medium.com/design-bootc... #AI #UX

Poland’s biggest annual charity fundraiser, WOŚP, has once again broken its record. By the end of tonight's grand finale, it had brought in just over 183 million zloty (€43.5 million) in donations, which will go towards children’s healthcare.

Recession music is back in full swing chat, time to pack it up. link.deezer.com/s/32gtlh0auK...

I want off this ride.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.

I love my Nothing Ears, would recommend if you're looking for earbuds.

Many organizations are effectively managed by a Head of Vecna

The underlying problem is that LLMs are very good at generating plausible nonsense. At that point, the problem isn’t the use of LLMs. It's the mislabelling of assumptions as findings. www.linkedin.com/pulse/proble... #AI #UX

This is where most product teams are. They are told “don’t overthink it.” They are told to build before they measure and learn. And so they must rely on their sense of what is supposed to happen; they solutioneer for imagined use cases. productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-incred... #UX #UXResearch

I just thought everyone should see this

Only when we stop doing most things, do we have the time and energy to fully, deeply execute the most important things. And the important things are the difference between thriving and perishing. longform.asmartbear.com/focus/

"Designers should code" keeps coming up because the end product of our interfaces is ultimately code. Many think the faster we get to code, the faster we have a real interface. And that is true, with a small caveat. #UX #ProductDesign www.linkedin.com/pulse/non-sh...

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

The day is never coming when all the other stuff will be “out of the way,” so you can turn at last to building a life of meaning and accomplishment that hums with vitality. For finite humans, the time for that has to be now. behavioralscientist.org/oliver-burke...

Products are no longer designed for people, but for investors, metrics, and short-term growth narratives. Experience erosion is not a design flaw but a deliberate strategy: good user experiences are gradually sacrificed to increase revenue. #UX #ProductDesign

You get the users you get—with their existing habits, their limited attention, their varying levels of motivation, their phones buzzing with notifications from seven other apps. Of all the languages, @cwodtke.bsky.social decided to speak the language of facts. eleganthack.com/the-formula-...

It’s really important to write things down. I’ve been working with another designer and I started documenting our decisions, their rationale, and emerging principles within the design file itself — especially areas where there is contention. This helps to ground discussion in rationale.

The most critical question designers must now master is: Why? This becomes essential because people outside of design increasingly do the initial sketching step. Those things might look okay to the untrained eye, but they can only exist as drafts. dataanddesign.substack.com/p/the-90-pro...

Design almost never benefits from straight lines. Some ideas only show up when you take the long way around, when you don’t quite know what you’re looking for yet. When there’s room for detours, dead ends, side-quests, and a bit of adventure. uxdesign.cc/a-sharp-tool...

If you manage Figma as a designer, DS lead, or engineer this is the glue. This isn’t “AI reads from Figma.” It’s read and write control across projects, tokens, components, and docs. If you watch one design systems + AI video today, make it this one. 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/tpitre...

Management in the design industry has overwhelmingly chosen to stay out of craft. Design leaders believe “Good managers don’t get sucked into the details”. If that’s the “right” decision, then why is our industry struggling so much? uxdesign.cc/design-leade...

‘The spaces we inhabit shape our lives in various ways. This is the principle behind neurodesign and neuroarchitecture – emerging fields that explore how our surroundings impact us psychologically and physiologically,’ www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

The "unauthorized application" warning screen on both Mac and Windows is such a beautiful example of turning computers into walled gardens while pretending you're improving user's security.

Lord help me, the National Design Studio is back on their bullshit. realfood.gov This website weighs in at 16 (*six.* *teen.*) MB. The full game of the original DOOM was 12MB. 1/

Product ideas face a sad, rarely discussed, reality: most don’t work. itamargilad.com/impact/

When teams communicate UX goals and requirements loosely or ambiguously, they often splinter in different directions, leading to confusion among employees, duplicated or wasted effort, and a user experience that falls short of expectations. www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/...