October 6, 2025

Issue 558

Decentralizing quality
Why moving judgment to the edges wins in the long run.

Where’s the AI design renaissance?
Will AI take design jobs? If so, which ones? In light of that, what should designers focus on?

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away.

Intent Prototyping: A Practical Guide To Building With Clarity
A disciplined method that uses AI to turn your design intent directly into a live prototype, making it your primary canvas for ideation.

Rooz Mahdavian – Designing frontier interfaces at Neuralink and Apple (YouTube)
What it’s like designing an experience that allows someone to use a computer with just their mind.

Merged AI
The first AI design assistant that builds directly with your code, bounded by your design system.

Charmin Kumar Vemula
Charmin is a designer at Stax.ai.

Why I hate the MVP car
A love-hate relationship with the classic illustration that shows us the right and wrong way to build a product.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
— Upton Sinclair

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