Articles
- Your Design Tool Just Learned to Code, Test, and Click
Figma ships code layers and Gemini gets a mouse. Here's what agentic design and dev tools change for your team's build-versus-buy calls.
- Your audience can smell the AI. Here's what they're buying instead.
Scout rebrands, self-funded print zines, and contract playbooks all point one way: creative leaders are betting on authenticity and ownership over AI sameness.
- The Best Helper on Your Team Is the One Closest to Burning Out
How to structure teams, rethink the growth role, and help people without wearing yourself down. Ray reads the leadership stuff so you don't have to.
- Meta Broke Its Own Team for AI, Then Started Charging for a Chip You Already Own
Zuckerberg admits Meta's AI reorg is wobbling while it paywalls smart glasses features. Here's what it means for how you set AI timelines on your team.
- Attention is the product. So is walking away from it.
Tinder made a TikTok dating show while a $59 gadget locks your phone. Here's what the engagement versus attention split means for your product team.
- Your AI Budget Just Became a Line Item.
Token rationing is here. Here's how design and product leaders should govern AI inference cost before finance does it for you.
- Your Best Reviewer Is Doing a Machine's Job on Friday Night
AI is splitting design system review into rules a machine can enforce and judgment only a human should own. Here's what to automate and what to protect.
- Your A/B Test Wins Are Lying to You
AI floods your team with variants while your experimentation discipline slips. Here's what breaks, and what to check before you ship the next winner.
- Cheap agents just got here. Test them on your own work before you ship.
Anthropic's Sonnet 5 makes agentic AI cheap, and eval shops like Arena are booming. Here's how to benchmark models on your tasks before betting a feature.
- You Need a Consent Policy Before Your Team Ships the Voice
AI voices, deepfakes, and fake profiles are forcing product leaders to write authenticity and consent rules. Here is what changed and what to do Monday.
- Your Team Can Ship a Prototype This Week. That's the New Problem.
AI coding platforms and agent frameworks make prototyping cheap and fast. Here is what that means for your roadmap and your next review.
- The AI vendors want to move into your building
Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all launching forward-deployed AI engineering orgs. Here's what it means for your roadmap and your lock-in risk.
- Your Best Hires Are Rebuilding Themselves. Are You Watching?
Designers are surviving 550 rejections, launching agencies at 45, and questioning briefs. Here is what that tells design leaders about coaching and retention.
- The AI You Shipped Has a Personality Nobody Chose
AI hype, sameness, and chat-only interfaces are draining user trust. Here is what product and design leaders can actually do about it on Monday.
- Great Products Attract the Wrong People. Here's How to Protect Yours.
Product vision, mission-locked governance, and Kent Beck's take on what stays human. What actually changed and what to bring to your next review.
- The Chatbot Is the New Front Door to Your Product
AI chatbots now send retailers their best-converting shoppers. Here's what the Prime Day numbers mean for your product and your roadmap.
- Your CSAT Score Is Lying to You, and Voice Input Is About to Change Your Team's Workflow
CSAT breaks down as AI handles more support conversations. Here's how to measure customer experience at scale and why voice input is worth a real look.
- Sony Killed the Disc. Read the Fine Print.
Sony's all-digital PlayStation, rising console costs, and Xbox layoffs all point to one shift: platforms are trading ownership for control.
- The Web Just Grew a Toll Booth, and Your Content Is the Road
AI content monetization is here. Cloudflare, X, and OKX just set new rules for who pays to feed AI, and product leaders need a POV fast.
- The Building Is the Story Now
Cultural and hospitality builds are using spatial storytelling to shape experience. Here's what design leaders should take from the new wave.