Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“Maybe you’ve gotten comfortable writing prompts or using simple one-click tools. But as AI interfaces start to take different forms, many of them are still kinda hard to figure out. Navigating them can be overwhelming. It doesn’t feel like you’re using these products so much as deciphering them. The engineering is powerful, but the flows don’t make sense.
If you’re lost in an AI user flow, blame the writing.”
AI interfaces and the role of good writing →
By Nick DiLallo
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Editor picks
It’s not you, it’s hierarchy →
How I demoted my tree diagrams.
By Ben HickmanThe carbon score →
Environmental stewardship or selling virtue as a commodity?
By Ian BatterbeeWhat Perplexity’s AI browser reveals about UX’s future →
A systematic analysis of the first truly AI-native browser.
By Adrian Levy
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Space exploration logo archive →
Make me think
The worst designer I’ve ever worked with was also the most productive →
“What they failed to see was a growing pile of unaudited, untested, and misaligned design work — a ticking time-bomb of incoherence, technical debt and costly rework that would eventually cost the team far more than it saved.”Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing →
“Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms. The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter.”Choosing friction →
“Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey.”
Little gems this week
Against images as accessories →
By Oliver Meredith Cox
The illusion of alignment →
By Jon Daiello
The importance of taste, and other lies we tell ourselves →
By Mike Schindler
Tools and resources
Hidden patterns of system behavior →
Understanding the feedback loops that govern our lives.
By Michael ParentTrust isn’t a feature — it’s the interface →
The hardest thing to automate is confidence.
By Tara BirdX-shaped designers →
How we’ve T-shaped ourselves to death.
By Tash Willcocks
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Writing for AI, X-shaped designers, the lies we tell ourselves was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.