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Issue 579

Articles

Designing AI Experiences People Actually Use
By placing AI at the front of the experience, many products assume that users know the outcome in advance.

5 Design Skills To Sharpen in the AI Era
The skills designers need to meet the moment.

Design Process Isn’t Dead, It’s Compressed
As AI speeds up design work, the argument to “throw out the process” misrepresents how experienced designers work.

Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
What has actually held up over the last decade and how modern frameworks can guide both discovery and ideation.

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Tools and Resources

AI Upskilling for Product Designers
A framework for how deeply you’ve internalized a skill and how much of your design workflow AI is responsible for.

Designer Skills Collection
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UX Portfolio

Ben Roach
Ben is a UX Leader and Principal Designer at Google.

Last But Not Least

You’re still designing for an architecture that no longer exists
If you’re still designing screens, flows, and navigation systems, you might be perfecting the blueprint of a building that’s already been demolished.

“The way I’ve seen great work made isn’t using any sort of design process. It’s skipping steps when we deem them unnecessary. It’s doing them out of order just for the heck of it. It’s backtracking when we’re unsatisfied.”
— Jenny Wen

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