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Over the last year I’ve been sort of freaking out as a product designer. If that’s how you've been feeling please read on and checkout this video. With the advent of AI tools, chatbots, agents, and new releases of tools every month, I’ve been trying

For years I've been able to take ideas and prototype them. I've been able to learn from feedback loops with users and developers. But now I can go a little further, now I can get quicker feedback loops from code, and use that to improve the ideas.

Instead of letting the machines do our thinking or us, we should look for ways to pull them in for filling in the blanks, but not as a replacement.

It's been a fun, crazy, chaotic couple of weeks. I'm starting to feel that build up, and so I'm taking a different tack for twenty-four hours to make sure I can keep moving forward in the directions I want to go.

Part of the role of a good designer, and anyone who has to work in projects from start to completion, is being able to pick up the threads from day-to-day to keep everything moving forward. Through the first half dozen years of my career I struggled with this.

My product design process has held steady for years. But last week changed things. I've gone from using AI very little to pulling it right into the heart of my thinking.

Figma has changed the entire industry. But it's poised to be replaced just as it's headed to an IPO.

There’s a lot of influencers online who talk about their success and brag about what’s worked for them and how you can follow along and do the same. The problem is this is survivorship bias. Why do we all get sucked into joining meme stocks, cryptocurrency, MLMs, snake