Issue 606
Articles
Planning with Agents
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
The 3 Roles of Context for AI Agents
AI-agent power users curate 3 kinds of context: global (across tasks), local (task-specific), and ambient (raw streams like email).
Putting the user back into AI Evaluation
Machine evaluations can tell you whether an answer meets the criteria you set, but only users can tell you whether it actually worked for them.
The most important product decision is what you don’t build
Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.
For Google, design is the ultimate moat
In the increasingly competitive AI space, Google is betting that user experiences and interfaces will be as important as what the tools can do.
Tools and Resources
Bencho
A library of interactive UI blocks you can explore, tweak, and take straight into your projects.
Image to ASCII Converter
Turn an image into a composition of characters.
Bring Them to Life
Turn a character, illustration, or mascot you already have into clean motion built to live naturally inside your website or app.
Design Engineer Craft
A collection of design engineering concepts.
Woody
Product and design jobs in the creative industry.
UX Portfolio
Buzz Usborne
Buzz is a British/Australian designer working just outside Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
Last But Not Least
Opusfived
Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.
“If you want to build a product that’s relevant to people, you need to put yourself in their shoes and understand their daily lives.”
— Leisa Reichelt