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“We increasingly talk about taste as though it were something that can be collected, measured, or encoded. We assume that if enough people agree, or if enough data is available, the right answer will eventually emerge. But taste has never worked that way.
Taste begins with knowing what good looks like. It comes from exposure to exceptional work, from studying history, understanding proportion, typography, interaction, composition, and learning to recognize quality with consistency. Designers who struggle to make strong decisions often do not lack confidence. They simply have not yet built that internal reference library. Yet recognizing quality is only the beginning.”
Taste cannot be delegated →
By Aurélie Radom
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Editor picks
- Designers are sharpening knives for the wrong fight →
Why is the whole conversation still about how to build?
By Dan Maccarone - AX is just the orchestration layer →
The work didn’t vanish with the screen. It fell one layer down.
By Adrian Levy - The interface has left the building →
How chat, voice, and agentic AI are rewriting UX.
By Om Prakash
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Make me think
- The hard things about design →
“This one is for the folks deep into the vocation. The veterans running teams, the senior craftspeople who’ve been at this for a decade or more. We know the romance of the craft. What we don’t talk about as much is its costs, the ones we keep absorbing every day, and why design carries costs that engineering and product management mostly avoid. So here’s an accounting of what it costs us, and why.” - The people who will thrive in the AI age →
“Every time some new labor-saving technology is introduced, there are experts (the ones who know a lot about technology but not much about psychology) who predict that people will use the technology to make life easier. Soon we’ll all be enjoying 15-hour workweeks! Instead, many people use the technology to make their life more frenetic and full.” - Punch yourself in the face with reality →
“What is hard are things like:
– Taking real risk with your life
– Putting your name on something publicly
– Getting rejected to your face over and over again
– Having the courage to go on when nobody believes in you
– Being willing to let other people down
– Being willing to see your friends and your network progress ahead in life while it seems like you are getting stuck”
Little gems this week
The Kintsugi problem →
By Takuma Kakehi
When design becomes the organization, and AI becomes the design →
By Zeeshan Khalid
Designing with web standards: the playbook for this AI moment →
By Patrick Neeman
Tools and resources
- SAID framework →
Reclaiming the design process.
By Darren Yeo - Sustainable design →
Making it the default, not the exception.
By Christopher Balogun - How AI became part of my UX design workflow →
Intentional experimentation.
By Laís Lara Vacco
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