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AI invasive design

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:32:19 GMT

We can all agree ”AI native“ is a little bit bullshit, but does it have to be so dystopian?

Creative Intelligence Report

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:31:51 GMT

We surveyed 150k+ working creatives to explore how AI is changing creative work.

A design system is what it does

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:31:17 GMT

A comparison of how two design systems handle the humble text component.

Field Notes: Design Outcomes

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:30:50 GMT

Tactics from the best design teams and individuals working today, with notes on how the work got made.

Bringing warmth and fun to São Paulo’s bars and restaurants

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:30:16 GMT

References, details and techniques being deployed by Brazilian design studios to bring playfulness and nostalgia to the city’s streets.

Agents don’t need memory. They need documentation.

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:32:38 GMT

Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.

12 axes

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:31:53 GMT

A complete, free political quiz: find your political ideology, compatible country and political figure across 12 axes.

Money as a file

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:31:14 GMT

A working prototype that lets you move test money as a file: into Finder, along with a message, or directly between two phones.

Agentic systems are the future of brands

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:30:31 GMT

Agentic Brand Systems, a Little Plains research note.

Chat is AI’s command line

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:30:00 GMT

AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.

On being anything other than a designer

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:07:01 GMT

There’s that person in your job who is the one people call for all kinds of tasks that only “they can do.”

F*cking good libraries

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:05:37 GMT

A browsable semantic library for creative development resources.

Emerging patterns: design leadership in 2026

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:04:54 GMT

Findings from nearly 120 design leaders — pathways, mentorship, portfolio careers, tooling, and the human qualities of leadership.

The era of cmd+tab

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:04:17 GMT

An essay that degrades 1% at a time, and a little more every time you leave it.

Design is a nice-to-have

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:03:48 GMT

I am in a very weird place right now when it comes to design.

Prompting as self-portrait

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:43:38 GMT

AI installed a distorted mirror where the blank page used to be.

Leadership folios

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:43:05 GMT

Portfolios from design managers, directors, VPs, and executives, each annotated with what it shows, why it works at that level, and what to steal.

Is Meta’s new AI agent easier to trust because it’s cute?

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:42:04 GMT

Muse comes with an avatar you design and a keyring gadget. Few people would hand Meta their passwords, yet it topped the US App Store.

Many agents, many views

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:41:11 GMT

You manage agents, they manage more agents, and those agents manage even more agents.

In defense of the detour

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:40:23 GMT

On craft, A.I. and what gets lost when we skip the slow part.