Short, opinionated posts on AI-native product design, design systems, and startup execution — republished from LinkedIn.
AI made everything look polished. Now polished looks fake.Users are starting to distrust overly refined visuals. Not because quality is bad. Because everything looks the same. Variable line weights, visible brushstrokes, incomplete sha…
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Five years ago I turned 30 and bought a Porsche. The car was never the point.Five years ago I turned 30. I bought myself a Porsche. The car was never the point.
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Designers are losing confidence. Not because they are getting worse.Designers are losing confidence. Not because they are getting worse. Because the environment around them has changed faster than anyone expected.
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Smart users are your biggest research risk.Not the uninformed ones. Not the disengaged ones. The ones who are senior, articulate, and always have an answer.
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The AI tool generated the design in 40 seconds. Fixing the component drift took three days.That's not a bug. That's the default behavior.
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Cursor sold to xAI for $60 billion.The founders looked at the path to $100 billion and decided they didn't want to walk it alone.
Read postStanding desk and treadmill. The best combo I use every day.I bought a standing desk three years ago. Used it for a week. Then it became an expensive shelf.
Read postAnthropic is expanding its design team. Every product group is requesting more human designers.This is the company that makes Claude. They're not doing this despite AI. They're doing it because of it.
Read postOne workflow change cut my design review prep from 2 hours to 15 minutes.Before every design review I used to manually write up context: what changed, why, what feedback I need. For 3 active projects that was 6 hours a week just in prep.
Read postI reduced courier app onboarding drop-off from 70% to 23%. The biggest change was not in the design.I reduced the courier app onboarding drop-off from 70% to 23%. The biggest change was not in the design.
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