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DX Perspective: Notes From The Future, Quiet Tech, and Leading With Context

Exploring notes from the future of design, examining why quiet tech may look more like Dune than Marvel, and diving into the lessons from Atlassian’s AI journey on leading with context.

DX Perspective: Cultivating Taste, AI Fluency, and Staying Closer To The Material

Exploring how Gusto’s design team went fully AI-native in a single quarter, examining why you never stop cultivating taste, and diving into what it means to grade AI fluency.

DX Perspective: The AI Paradox, Swimming Against Hard Edges, and Rewiring Software Delivery

Exploring what matters when anyone can build, examining the AI paradox where more automation creates more work not less, and diving into how software delivery is being rewired for the agentic era.

DX Perspective: The Era of Experience, Output Isn’t Design, and Agentic Product Development

Exploring why output generation misses the point of design, examining how design systems are becoming inference systems, and understanding the fundamental shift from build-to-earn to build-to-learn.

DX Perspective: Accepting Uncertainty, The Design-Build Loop, and The Agentic Organization

The shift from documents to working prototypes in the design-build loop, examining the judgment economy where taste matters more than speed, and understanding McKinsey’s vision of the agentic org.

DX Perspective: Something Big Is Happening, Product Builders, and The Intelligent Web

Baby Cursor as a glimpse of the prompt-first workbench, the rise of the product builder as roles collapse, and a clean call that PRD → mock → code is dead.

DX Perspective: What The System Rewards, The Anthropic Hive Mind, and The State of The Designer

Exploring what organizational systems quietly select against, how Anthropic’s vibes-driven culture is rewriting innovation, and what Figma’s 2026 report reveals about designers in the messy middle.

What The System Rewards

And what it quietly selects against.

How You Operate Is the Strategy

Every organization believes it has a strategy.

DX Perspective: What I No Longer Believe, Design Is More Than Code, and Building Virtual Worlds

Exploring what I no longer believe about design leadership, examining why design, not scale, will decide AI's future, and understanding how intelligence flow architecture beats better AI models.