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Essays on AI, design leadership, and product strategy from 18+ years in the industry.

AI & Design

Figma Make Just Made the Design File Disposable. Most Teams Are Still Treating It Like the Source of Truth.

Four days ago Figma Make went into closed beta. It connects to your local codebase, edits product through chat, respects your design system via MCP, and opens pull requests without...

June 1, 2026 · 7 min read
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Design Leadership

Design Engineer Is Either the Best Job in Tech or a Headcount Trick. The Title Will Not Tell You Which.

Half the "design engineer" job postings sitting in your feed right now are not design engineering jobs. They are product designer roles where the company quietly cut a frontend engineer...

May 29, 2026 · 7 min read
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Product Strategy

Agentic UX Is Failing on the Boring Surfaces. That Is Where It Has to Win.

Agentic AI demos look magical. Production agentic AI is mostly a mess. And it is failing in the place it has to win, which is the boring stuff.

May 22, 2026 · 6 min read
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Fractional Work

Fractional Design Leadership Just Crossed a Tipping Point. Most Founders Are Buying the Wrong Thing.

Fractional design leadership is no longer a workaround. The model just crossed the tipping point where it stops being clever and starts being the default. And most founders are getting...

May 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & Design

The Figma Canvas Is Now Open to AI Agents. Most Designers Are Asking the Wrong Question.

The AI can design in Figma now. Not roughly. Not as a separate prototype in a disconnected tool. Directly on your canvas, using your design system, pulling your components, applying your tokens.

May 18, 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & Design

Generation Just Became Free. Design Taste Just Became the Moat.

Five tools can now generate a passable product screen from one sentence. Figma's stock dropped roughly 7% the day Claude Design launched on 17 April 2026. The story is not...

May 18, 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & Design

Claude Design Just Killed Figma's Moat. The Source of Truth Just Moved, and Most Design Teams Are Looking the Wrong Way.

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May 18, 2026 · 6 min read
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Design Leadership

The Design Job Market Didn't Just Get Worse. It Split in Two.

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May 13, 2026 · 6 min read
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Product Strategy

MENA Fintech Just Lost 85% of Its Funding in a Month. The Survivors Will Be Boring.

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May 8, 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & Design

Lovable 2.0 Doesn't Replace Designers. It Replaces the Junior Designer Pipeline.

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May 6, 2026 · 7 min read
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Design Leadership

Staff Designer Is the Best Job in Tech Right Now. Most Companies Don't Know How to Hire One.

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May 4, 2026 · 7 min read
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Fractional Work

The Hidden Cost of Hiring a Full-Time Design Lead Before You're Ready

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May 1, 2026 · 10 min read
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Design Leadership

Why Most Designers Will Never Become Director. And It Has Nothing To Do With Skill.

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April 29, 2026 · 7 min read
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Product Strategy

Stop Treating Onboarding Like a Funnel. Your Users Aren't Metrics.

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April 28, 2026 · 7 min read
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Product Strategy

Neo-banks Didn't Lose to Banks. They Lost to Themselves.

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April 27, 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & Design

Google Declared War on Figma. The Wrong People Are Worried.

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April 24, 2026 · 6 min read
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Product Strategy

Compliance Is Not a Constraint. It Is the Only Differentiator Fintech Has Left.

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April 22, 2026 · 8 min read
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Design Leadership

What Running an Agency Taught Me About Director-Level Clarity

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April 20, 2026 · 7 min read
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Design Leadership

The AI Hiring Bet That's Already Going Wrong

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April 17, 2026 · 6 min read
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Design Leadership

The Rise of the Super IC: Why the Best Senior Designers Don't Want Your Management Title

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April 15, 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & Design

The Figma Canvas Is Now Open to AI Agents. Most Design Teams Aren't Ready.

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April 13, 2026 · 5 min read
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Product Strategy

Your Fintech App Doesn't Have a Design Problem. It Has a Trust Problem.

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April 10, 2026 · 4 min read
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AI & Design

Your Design System Isn't a Library Anymore. It's Your AI's Operating Manual.

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April 10, 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & Design

The AI Design Trap: More Variants, Worse Decisions

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April 8, 2026 · 3 min read
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Design Leadership

The Best Design Leaders in 2026 Are Still Designing.

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April 8, 2026 · 4 min read
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AI & Design

Vibe Design Is Real. It Won't Replace Designers. It Will Expose Them.

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April 8, 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & Design

Agentic UX Is the Next Design Discipline. Most Designers Don't Know It Exists.

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April 6, 2026 · 3 min read
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AI & Design

The designers who survive AI aren't the ones learning tools fastest

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April 3, 2026 · 2 min read
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AI & Design

Figma's AI Agents Can Now Design For You. Most Teams Aren't Ready.

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April 3, 2026 · 5 min read
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AI & Design

The AI Layoff Myth: Why the Best Designers Are About to Become Untouchable

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April 1, 2026 · 3 min read
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AI & Design

AI Fluency Isn't the Skill. Knowing When AI Is Wrong Is.

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March 23, 2026 · 4 min read
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