MARTYN REDING
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The design leadership reckoning
Martyn Reding argues the old shape of design leadership is gone, and lays out what changed and how to adapt.
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Field Notes
Tactics from the best design teams and individuals working today, with notes on how the work got made.
80 entries in the catalog
UX.RASPBERRY
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From producing to deciding
A blunt read on where designer value sits in 2026: production is getting automated, so strategy and judgment are what stay human.
GEORGE XING
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Shipping Solo With Agent Workflows
A solo builder lays out the agent framework, test automation, and remote setup that made his product workflow far faster.
JAKOB NIELSEN
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Profit Comes From Workflow Redesign
Citing a 515-startup field experiment, Nielsen argues AI pays off when teams redesign whole workflows, not single tasks.
VANESSA BELENO
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What Ambiguity Reveals About You
An early-career designer notices she keeps reaching for connective work wherever structure is missing, and asks what that instinct reveals.
ALPHA BYTES
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Why Taste Becomes the Moat
As AI flattens production, the author argues cultivated taste and a clear point of view become a designer's real edge.
VIOLETTA BONENKAMP
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Design as Executable Knowledge
A founder argues the real shift is encoding brand rules and taste into reusable files non-designers can run.
DESIGN WITH AI
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Five Habits for Designing With AI
Notes from ÌníOlúwa Abíódún's talk on shipping AI agents: scope sharply, write to think, then explore rough prototypes.
DESIGN MAVERICKS
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Design is becoming leadership literacy
Forty design leaders in Amsterdam reach the same conclusion: the role is dissolving while the capacity becomes foundational to leadership.
BUILDING NUBANK
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Simplicity at scale is strategy
Five lessons from serving 127 million customers, where hiding complexity is a deliberate architectural and cultural decision, not polish.
GITHUB
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Accessibility as an operating system
GitHub's five-year accessibility program turns outward, with audit data, design tooling, and AI agents making inclusion operational rather than aspirational.
UX COLLECTIVE
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A skeptic's playbook for AI
A research leader of eight argues for measured AI adoption: pressure-tested tools, tracked outputs, and guardrails before enthusiasm.