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AI canvas, Synthetic self, The prompt is the product
, UX Collective - Medium
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“AI coding agents are bringing some of that interaction model back. You can describe an outcome and let the agent decide which commands to run, which files to change and which tests to execute. You no longer have to operate the software step by step, but a familiar design problem comes back in another form: What did the system understand? What is it doing? What has it changed? What can I stop? What should I review?
The interface is no longer just something we operate; it can act.”
AI in Product teams: In 2026, the growing impact on collaboration
, UX Collective - Medium
Is the time of blind AI-tool-pushing over? There seems to be a shift in how companies approach AI. Less piecemeal initiatives, more strategic thinking and adoption, which is increasingly affecting how design, engineering and product work together.To stay competitive in 2026, companies are slowly but steadily building AI strategies. Credit: Unsplash, Maxim TolchinskiyMy summer of 2025 wasn’t all holidays and chill. I spent it deep in my master’s thesis, crossing interviews with designers and developers of all backgrounds and seniorities, building graphs and pivot tables from my own survey, and reading Figma’s AI report along with a stack of articles to get the full picture. Intense, but genuinely one of the most exciting subjects I’ve dug into, AI’s impact on design-dev collaboration.
My conclusion, in short, was that companies knew AI mattered strategically, and knew employees were already using it, but almost none of them were creating real strategies for its adoption, only piecemeal ones. In some cases, AI was prohibited outright, over confidentiality or security concerns, or even, sometimes, just “cause.”
Reading and writing are interfaces. And AI can reduce their friction.
, UX Collective - Medium
The question is not whether AI reduces work, but where the intellectual work moves.Photo by Mikhail Pushkarev on UnsplashThere is plenty of AI slop on the internet, and much of it deserves the criticism it gets. But let’s not pretend AI invented slop. Humans were producing shallow, derivative, formulaic, and poorly researched content long before most of us knew what an LLM was.
What’s becoming more tiresome than the slop itself, though, is the growing commentary treating any use of AI-assisted writing as an intellectual failure. A certain kind of AI critic has become the new grammar Nazi, policing not only bad writing but also the means by which writing is produced.
Figma Design Critique Using Claude Code
, UX Planet - Medium
Claude Code recently got a new plugin /design that lets you craft designs right in Claude Code. But you can also use this plugin to…
What Minority Report got wrong about AI (so far)
, UX Collective - Medium
The film gave us two futures. We rebuilt the one that was easy to demo.The film cautioned against predictive systems and pre-crime, and the we turned it into a screensaver.For two decades, Minority Report has been shorthand for the future of interaction. Show the film to a designer and one image surfaces: Tom Cruise in a black glove, sweeping translucent panels through the air like a conductor.
Teams chased it, vendors sold against it, and every few years someone demos a rig and invokes the film.
How to Audit and Extend Your Figma Design System with Claude Code
, UX Planet - Medium
Claude Code recently got a new plugin /design that lets you craft designs right in Claude Code. I’ve described the entire process of…
Fable 5.1 for Product Designers
, UX Planet - Medium
Anthropic just updated its most advanced AI model, Fable. The new model, Fable 5.1, demonstrates even better results than its predecessor…
Claude Code’s New Design Plugin Is a Big Deal for Product Designers
, UX Planet - Medium
Claude Code recently got a new plugin /design that lets you craft designs right in Claude Code. I’ve described the entire process of…
Nine Design Fixes for Your UX Research Reports
, MeasuringU
We’re known in the industry for metrics, for methods, and for defining UX research measurement.
But while we believe in using data to drive decisions, we also know that changing minds is not something you can just enter into an Excel formula.
Five Ways to Use Rapport When Moderating
, MeasuringU
@media (max-width: 782px) { .mu-nofloat-mobile img { float: none !important; display: block; margin: 0 auto 1.25em; } } What makes a good moderator? There is more to it than reading a script.
While AI moderation is getting a lot of headlines, humans will still be moderating sessions. Some teams (including ours) are experimenting with AI moderation for lower-stakes, higher-volume studies (verbal surveys). But when it’s hard to get a participant, and you need to get as much as you can out of their time and yours, the quality of a good moderator pays dividends.
