AI & Design

AI tools were meant to automate the boring bits and free up time for meaningful work. Instead, creatives speak of endless iterations, escalating client demands and entirely new categories of digital drudgery. Are we thinking about AI’s place in the creative process all wrong?

How I went from junk templates to production-ready UI

Using AI as a mirror helped me stop outsourcing decisions and start trusting myself

In the pursuit of the superpower that makes designers irreplaceable

In this letter from the future, you’ll see how AI and design systems transformed UX from pixel-perfect mockups to real, testable front-end code and freed designers to focus on what really matters.

How asking questions, which used to annoy teams, is now critical to UX’s future

Sarah closed her laptop after another marathon day of back-to-back meetings. She glanced at her phone and smiled, a notification from…

Hard truths and hopeful signals from a product designer at Dropbox

Why empathy, not efficiency, remains the most valuable skill in the designer’s toolkit.

AI for product design is not only here to stay, it’s redefining how digital products are designed and developed. After more than 4,000…

ideas for designing your career, building products, and connecting with your creativity 🌷. Click to read futureproof, by Sophia, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Thinking of becoming a UX designer in 2026? Here’s a real-world roadmap with AI, vibe coding & portfolio tips to actually land the job.

Web forms exist to put information from people into databases. The input fields and formatting rules in online forms are there to make sure the information fits...

How to work with teams that turn to AI instead of UX

The first principles of AI so that you can transform your products with new AI applications

Here's what you need to know to use these tools in a forward-thinking product development process

AI product strategy is unique from regular product strategy–but most are getting it wrong. Here’s how to create a winning AI product strategy.

Cursor went from 0 to $100M ARR in 24 months. This is their story: packed full of lessons for AI builders of all stripes

How do you build AI features that actually work for your product instead of generic AI wrappers? Today we walk you through the implementation and decision frameworks you need.

You've seen a million guides on prompts, here's the guide you actually need to build great products right NOW

Ditching all the hype to help you go from 0 to 1

When it comes to important skills for building in AI (especially for PMs and engineers), evals are at the top of the list. So, today, we break down evals in-depth with an expert.

Listen now (43 mins) | Zapier's CTO shows you how to turn AI models into real agents using MCP and Zapier to send Slack messages, draft emails, and automate workflows without writing a single line of code.

Is AI ending the PRD as we know it?

You’ve heard about vibe coding, but have you heard about vibe experimentation?

Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.

From prompting through AI PRDs, fine-tuning, RAG, MCP, and AI Agents, today's episode is a complete crash course on how to become an AI PM. Trailer - 00:00Wh...

You build a polished, user-friendly AI product—just what stakeholders wanted.But post-launch, cracks appear. Users get confused, frustrated, and stop trusting the system. Sound familiar? That’s because most teams focus only on the UI, while the real issues lie deeper. In AI products, success depends on what’s beneath the surface—how your system handles uncertainty, errors, and

The creative industry stands at a crossroads. Generative AI has crashed onto the design desk with promises of instant solutions and creative acceleration, yet many brands risk mistaking that initial…