August 24, 2026

Issue 602

Designing the first five minutes
Why onboarding matters for agent experiences – and how to get it right.

Code is a Design Material
A designer’s reflections from Config, and why UX fundamentals matter more than ever.

How to become an AI Designer
A realistic guide to shipping your own designs.

What Leaders Need to Know About Building Agents
Agentic products pose a unique set of design challenges.

Comms
Records your screen while you draw and talk to show your agent exactly what you mean.

Lenny’s Podcast: Ian Silber, OpenAI’s Head of Design
OpenAI’s head of product design on why this is the best time in history to be a designer, where humans still beat AI, and how to escape the overwhelm

Pedro Marques
Perdo leads design at Footprint and keeps his portfolio simple but effective.

Rethinking design leadership with swarms and flocks
How structured emergence solves manager burnout, team bottlenecks, and systemic design debt.

“A mistake is a signal that there is a discrepancy between what you thought would happen and what actually happened.”
— Astro Teller