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Issue 539

Articles

Expressive Design: Google’s UX Research
The research behind Google’s bold new direction for design.

Products Need Soul but Markets Reward Scale
The real challenge is knowing when to fight for the soul, and when to let go.

Designing for Serial Task Switching
Serial task switching, or rapidly shifting attention between tasks, is a natural user behavior that lowers productivity and increases stress and the chance of errors.

Andrew “Boz” Bosworth’s 10 Rules for Navigating the Next Design Paradigm
Meta’s Chief Technology Officer on consciousness, questioning design paradigms, and building for the future.

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Tools and Resources

Material 3 Design Kit
A comprehensive introduction to the design system, with styles and components to help you get started.

Design System In 90 Days
Helpful PDF worksheets and tools to get the design system effort up and running

Phase
Simple animation tool for designers.

Stitch
An AI-powered tool to help application builders generate high-quality user interfaces for mobile and web apps, and easily export them to Figma.

Inflight
A feedback tool made for modern product teams.

UX Portfolio

Haoran Xu
Haoran is a Product Designer & Immersive Designer currently studying at University of Washington.

Last But Not Least

State of AI in Design Report 2025
Exploring the real impact of AI on design today based on a survey of 400+ designers and conversations with leaders at Stripe, Notion, Anthropic, and more.

“In creative industries, people will be valued even more for their problem solving and collaboration, or for their deep subject matter expertise and specialization.”
— Eric Snowden

Thanks to this issue’s sponsor:

Interaction Design Foundation