Be like water: Rethinking the design process with AI
What Bruce Lee can teach us about structure, flow, and intention.Continue reading on UX Collective »
How I use AI to partner on design problems
A design workflow where AI holds the context, I do the thinking: from brainstorm to prototypeWorking through a complex design problem means holding a lot in my head. Research synthesis, product metrics, a Slack thread with stakeholder feedback, Figma comments, decisions made in the last iteration. M
Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world
Why design isn’t found in a prompt, but in toil and the creator’s “thinking hand.”In a world of automated perfection, the “thinking hand” reclaims the grit, soul, and human conviction that make design truly come alive. (image source: jonmiura)Lucasfilm and the Art of the Matte PaintingFor close to 5
The thinking was never just mine
Maybe “mine” was never about origin. Maybe it was about what gets carried forward.I’ve been trying to figure out when, exactly, an idea becomes mine.Recently, I was working on a problem. It was some flow that wasn’t really working, and I did what I now often do: I opened Claude and started talking.
Prompt is not interface, UI patterns that won’t survive, how to make Claude follow your design…
Prompt is not interface, UI patterns that won’t survive, how to make Claude follow your design systemWeekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“The most advanced artificial intelligence systems in history now ask us to communicate through a blinking cursor in an empty text box. We
Discovery is the work AI gives back
Productivity is the floor of AI’s value, not the ceiling. New McKinsey research on where the durable returns actually live, and what that means for teams deciding what to build.Generated with AI by AuthorAt the end of 2025, almost nine in ten organizations surveyed by McKinsey in The state of AI in
The left-handed rope
On a sacred design pattern, and the long reach of small reversalsContinue reading on UX Collective »
Everything I know about AI, I learned from a genie
A content designer's guide to not wasting your wishes on something stupidI Dream of JeanieI was a lucky child. My parents and grandparents spent hours reading and reciting fairytales to me. Most of them weren’t age-appropriate, of course, involving children being eaten and loved ones dying on every
How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma
4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds.Claude Code can now write directly to the Figma canvas through Figma MCP.You describe an interface in natural language; it builds it. Visually, the result can be pixel-perfect. But click into any
The prompt is not an interface
Why AI sent us back to the command line — On direct manipulation, visual intent, and the regression of AI tooling.Image generated via Google Gemini“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak.” — John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972 [1]The most advanced artificial inte