Claude Design is a "clock time" solution for a "calendar time" problem
Orgs are betting that they can substitute sense-making with faster artifact delivery. Users are paying the price.
Start designing in content, not in code.
Putting the cart before the horse is not giving you real velocity wins.
Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn
We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.
AI mandates are a demand for cognitive surrender
Studies show that reducing our scope of judgment to checking AI outputs leads to abandoning critical thinking altogether.
Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking
The industry is in the grip of directionless urgency, and users are paying the price. Strategy has been replaced with half-baked features.
UX works through social relationships. AI tools are erasing them.
Stakeholders want to vibe code and have designers clean up after them afterwards. But rather than helping with velocity, there is just more noise and more work for everyone.
Software is a coordination problem. AI can't help you with that.
The feedback loops of the product delivery lifecycle go through people. Adding AI makes it slower, not faster.
Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.
Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.
"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.
You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.
Research is leadership, and code can help (but only in the right places)
Code was never the blocker in delivering customer value — and the easier writing code becomes, the more it distracts from the work we must do to unblock productivity.
Corporations demand perfection from workers, but AI gets unlimited slack.
LLM users have bottomless patience for inconsistent tools, and no grace left for their colleagues. What if we could flip it around?
The circular logic of our metrics
We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.
You can't "AI-proof your career" with a project mindset
Don't try and compete with LLMs. Instead, cure yourself of computer brain.
Vibe prototyping isn't solving any problems. But it's creating many new ones.
It's easy to prototype and so everyone is prototyping, without really knowing why they are doing it.
Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy
Skipping to designing the solution before you have adequately designed the problem is not speeding you up, but slowing you down.
See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen
"Better than nothing" rhetoric hides the opportunity costs behind the bare minimum. Reject this framing.
Your metrics are an avoidance strategy
Being able to quantify outcomes doesn't make them meaningful. Moving past artificial metrics requires building shared intention with colleagues.
Bouncing back from burnout
The causes of burnout are systemic. You can't get out of it just by trying harder.
AI Fatigue VS the Executive Echo Chamber
The backlash against "AI-in-everything" is rising. Only execs are surprised.
Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.