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Issue 549

Articles

The product design talent crisis
Designers starting their careers today lack the opportunities that helped the super ICs become so super.

Why I’m Giving Up My Design Title—And What That Says About The Future of Design
We need more people to shape the primitives, models, and agents that will define how tomorrow’s software is built.

The Duolingo Method: Collaboration As A Core Practice
Duolingo’s Math team ditches traditional handoff in favor of co-creation, scrappy prototypes, and constant experimentation.

Prompt Building User Interfaces
Prompt building UI’s can help people who don’t know all the things these products can do nor how to get the best results out of them.

Digital Twins: Simulating Humans with Generative AI
A genAI-based model of a particular individual that can be used to predict both individual and population-level preferences and behaviors.

Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
Today, roughly 10% of people are left-handed. Yet most products aren’t designed with it in mind.

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Tools and Resources

Agent Interaction Guidelines (AIG) – Linear
The foundational, evolving principles and practices for designing agent interactions that integrate more naturally into human workflows.

Opal
Build, edit and share mini-AI apps using natural language.

UX Portfolio

Janelle Amores
Janelle is a freelance product designer based in Northern California.

Last But Not Least

Figma’s IPO: Design Is Everyone’s Business
Why design is more important than ever, and what’s next for Figma.

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old,
but on building the new.”

— Socrates

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