Issue 589

Articles

Taste over haste
Why in an era of automation, nurturing creative vision matters more than ever.

Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
What people say, feel, think, and do are often very different things.

Collaborative Steering
A mechanism for guiding agents that’s collaboratively created, edited, and maintained by teams.

Most AI tools make users faster. The best AI tools make users better.
Is there a way to make users better through interactions with AI?

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Tools and Resources

AI in Design Report 2026
How designers are evolving their tools, craft, and teams with AI.

The Figma Design Agent is Here
Work with an agent directly on the canvas.

Just a Design List
A curated directory of design practices.

Attention Insight
An AI-powered Figma plugin that analyzes visual usability.

UX Portfolio

Megan Yap
Megan is a designer at Cornell.

Last But Not Least

Fraude Design
Make bad design decisions and generate irredeemable amounts of technical debt.

“Designers engineer relationships, not simply technology.”
— John Lee & Katrina See