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- Design’s hardest role has a two-year clock — 2026-09-17
Kevin Twohy spent the first half of his career as the first designer at early startups, before the title was in vogue. Around the 18 month m…
- How Linear hires designers — 2026-09-10
Linear steers away from designers who make research a big part of their practice.
- 7 changes in brand world-building — 2026-09-03
Your studies, your participants, your insights, plugged straight into Claude, ChatGPT, and Figma Make. Just finished a prototype in Claude C…
- Designers with guts: we’re live in 5 minutes — 2026-07-16
Ridd and I are going live with Dive Radio today at 1 PM Pacific — a live show for designers with the guts to stay curious. Come hang out wit…
- I was wrong about taste — 2026-05-22
I made a video about cultural campfires, which is really about how hard it is to get discovered right now, how much noise there is, and how…
- How to share your design work in 2026 — 2026-05-18
This issue is about building a room for your work, and Lovable makes the room real. You can go from rough idea to landing page, blog, small…
- Your team isn’t AI-installed — 2026-05-12
Linear shared that resolved work moved from 5,697 in Q4 2025 to 10,254 in Q1 2026, up 80%. Bug resolutions nearly doubled, from 1,278 to 2,4…
- The artifact stopped proving seniority — 2026-05-05
The first rungs were artifact rungs: make the screen, polish the module, turn a messy brief into something presentable enough for critique.
- The 30-second test designers fail — 2026-05-01
And then Tuesday’s podcast became our most discussed episode as Diego Zaks, head of design at Ramp, broke down how their design function wor…
- The 4 Levels of AI Fluency — 2026-04-28
Framer’s pitch is design-speed content infrastructure: inline editing, structured collections, SEO, and collaboration in the same place the…
- Stochastic vs. Deterministic Design — 2026-04-24
Tuesday, Framer’s CMS got a major redesign — more powerful, and the team called it “only the beginning.
- Designing The Next Flow State — 2026-04-20
If she’s right — and I think she is — then the next wave of tools is going to get judged on whether they produce a spec you can trust, not a…
- Designers who vibe code are happier at work — 2026-04-17
We ran the first quarterly State of Prototyping survey. 1,478 designers, 18 regions, collected in March.
- Showing up for design quality — 2026-04-13
The free afternoon mainstage on May 28 in Seattle features David Kwong (TED, NYT Crossword) on creativity and decision-making, and Jennifer…