August 10 — August 16 Round Up: Becoming AI Designer, New UX Workflow, Star Wars AI
This week’s picks explore new AI design workflows, agentic thinking, design systems, and what makes designers valuable in an AI-driven world.
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What Star Wars Got Wrong About AI (So Far)
The saga imagined thinking machines as immortal individuals in metal bodies. Real AI showed up as copyable software, and every difference is worth understanding.
What Star Wars Got Right About AI
Droids are cheap, specialized, everywhere, and slightly annoying. That commodity vision maps to how artificial intelligence is reaching your desk right now.
The Jobs AI Won’t Take: Where The Room And Human Judgement Can’t Be Deleted
Barbers, Plumbers, Electricians, Psychologists, and Nurses Keep Getting Left Out of the AI Panic. There Lies Opportunity For UX To Shine.
August 3 — August 9 Round Up — The DESIGN.md Standard, UX To AI Designer, Agentic Design Systems
This week explores DESIGN.md standards, the shift from UX to AI product design, and design systems evolving from tokens to intelligent agents.
What Star Trek Got Wrong About AI (So Far)
We got soWe got something stranger — copyable, fluent, cmething stranger — copyable, fluent, confidently wrong, and already in over a billion pockets. Here is where the fiction and the field diverged.
What Star Trek Got Right About AI
The show’s voice-first computer, plain-language querying, and universal translator anticipated the assistants we ship now — the interface, not the intelligence.
July 27 - August 2 Round Up — Losing Design Passion, Design.md Standard File, Shared AI Brain
This week explores the shifting identity of product design, standardized files for AI agents, and building shared second brains across models.
Design.md — The One Standard File Carries Your Visual Identity, for Humans and Agents
Like a mullet, the business is up top for the machine, and the party below for the person. A single file is the standard we need that both your team and your agents read as truth.
Jakob’s Law: How to Apply It as AI and A2UI Collapses Surfaces Into One Chat Box
Assistants Like Claude Are Pulling More Tasks Through a Conversational Front Door. Jakob Nielsen’s Law of Familiar Interfaces Now Points at the Assistant Itself With Glee.
Announcing The AI for UX Index: It’s How It’s Mapped, Not Who It Ranks
A Periodic Map of Who Shapes AI in Design and Product Work, Built on Network Position Rather Than Follower Counts, and Why That Matters
Information Architecture Is the Foundation Artificial Intelligence Is Starving For
Every AI Problem You Chase — Hallucinations, Wrong Answers, Poor Retrieval — Traces Back to The IA Projects You Never Funded. Now’s The Time To Fund Them.
July 20 - July 26 Round Up — AI Pixel Police, Hooked Model AI, Brand Governance Risk
This week’s picks explore how AI agents reshape web design, extend and strain design systems, and transform UX research and product habits.
The Trust Test: Four Questions Every Tool Should Answer, Even Figma, About AI Training Model Usage
Figma’s Class Action Is Not Really About Copyright, It Is About Defaults And They Are A Design Decision Your Team Makes. Here’s A Test You Can Apply.
How to Apply Nir Eyal’s Hooked Model to AI Products
The Habit Loop That Built Social Media Is Now Wired Into Every Chatbot — Here Are Ways to Use It Without Becoming the Dealer
July 13 - July 19 Round Up — Design Systems As Infrastructure, Shorter Prompts Win, OpenAI Reverses Prompting
This week explores why design systems are infrastructure, how shorter prompts win, and the habits that quietly sharpen every AI answer you get.
The Design Layer Is On Trial. The Jury Is Confused Where To Focus.
A 42% short position, a Bank of America upgrade, and a chief executive naming Anthropic out loud. What the market is really deliberating, and it’s not the craft.
Designing With Web Standards: The Playbook for This AI Moment
Jeffrey Zeldman Helped End the Browser Wars by Making the Case for Standards. We Are Starting That Journey Again and We Should Follow His Example.
July 6 - July 12 Round Up — AI for UX Index, Design Systems For Agents, Trust UX Practices, Design.md Class
This week’s picks explore designing for LLM agents, building trust in explainable AI, and rethinking workflows before layering on more automation.
Craft Still Matters But It’s All About Outcomes, Not Pixels
AI Moved Craft From Production To Judgment; The Same Tools Can Help You Protect It, If You Describe Your Standards And Keep Humans Reviewing