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Issue 535

Articles

AI Horseless Carriages
Many AI features feel tacked-on and useless, even counter-productive.

“Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio
An exercise to declutter, realign, and spark some serious product joy for both your business and your customers.

The purpose of UX Design — why product managers need UX designers and design leaders
Even if we are living in the age of “product thinking” dominance, there’s a specific and valuable role for design.

Prompt Suggestions
System-generated suggestions for AI prompts must be contextually relevant, personalized, and specific to the task and the user’s level of experience.

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Tools and Resources

Figma’s 2025 AI report: Perspectives From Designers and Developers
Figma’s AI report tells us how designers and developers are navigating the changing landscape.

Hana
A real-time canvas to design and animate interactive 2D experiences.

That Guide to UI Design
A curated collection of resources and exercises to help you start your UI Design journey.

UX Portfolio

Ruby Wu
Ruby is a getting her Master of Interaction Design in Carnegie Mellon.

Last But Not Least

Impact, agency, and taste
People’s biggest bottleneck eventually becomes their ability to get leverage—i.e., to find and execute work that has a big impact-per-hour multiplier.

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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