Articles
- The rung you're standing on, and the one you're avoiding
PMs are being asked to finish tasks with AI, not just draft with it. Here's what career resilience actually looks like when the job keeps moving under you.
- The moat is the part you can't automate
AI made answers cheap, so trust and human craft became the thing worth paying for. What Stack Overflow, Cannes, and a field-grown photograph agree on.
- The five-person team that deleted its own process
Gusto shipped a product line in 10 weeks with no PM, no Figma, no Jira. Here's what actually changed about who does the work.
- Your agent doesn't have a model problem, it has a plumbing problem
Reliable AI agents come down to state, stress tests, and a launch process, not a smarter model. What that actually looks like in practice.
- Your best people aren't quitting. They're looking sideways.
Design burnout and AI skepticism are rewriting the job description. Here's what the 2026 survey data means for how you grow and keep your team.
- Your AI feature works. Nobody can tell if it's lying.
New human-AI design principles give product teams real guardrails for the AI features they already shipped. Here's what changed and what to do Monday.
- The people who lasted didn't chase the algorithm, they chased the thing that still felt fun
What VidCon 2026's longest-running creators reveal about durability, and why product leaders selling to creators should care about burnout more than reach.
- The layoff memos blame AI. The hiring data says otherwise.
New hiring numbers show engineering holding up while customer-data and game studios cut staff. A clearer read on which roles AI augments versus replaces.
- Config 2026 Put a Number on Your Design System Debt. It Didn't Hand You the Budget.
Figma's Config 2026 tools make design system debt visible to everyone. Here's what changed and what to bring to your next planning review.
- Ford Hired the Gray Beards Back. Here's What That Tells You.
Ford rehired veteran engineers after AI missed its quality bar, and new research shows calling agents coworkers makes your team worse. Here's what to do.
- The Most Defensible Design Move Is Building Less
Adaptive reuse, grown color, and plant-waste materials all point to one sustainable design move: build and consume less. Here is what it means for your team.
- When Frontier Models Cost $55 for Life, What Are You Charging For?
Lifetime AI bundles selling GPT, Claude, and Gemini for under $70 signal model access is getting cheap. Here's what that means for how you price your AI feature.
- The real-world bet: AI is leaving the chat window
Investors are pouring billions into AI that moves, drives, and survives in the physical world. Here is what the shift to real-world AI means for your roadmap.
- Your Research Data Has Strangers In It
Survey bots, smart incentives, and baselines are the three levers that keep your user research credible when AI noise is everywhere. Here's what to do.
- AI Stopped Being a Feature. It Became Infrastructure.
AI is moving into the plumbing of health, public health, and web data. Here's what that shift means for your product roadmap and what to ask your team.
- Your Next Design Review Is Now a Liability Review
Regulators, lawsuits, and surveillance failures are turning privacy and safety into hard design constraints. Here is what changed and what to do Monday.
- Your Creators Are Becoming Companies. Plan For It.
VidCon 2026 made the creator economy shift clear: creators are building products, owning data, and hiring crews. Here's what it means for your team.
- The screen is not the only place your users will reach
Gesture lighting, ultrasound hand tracking, and brain-reading wearables show input is moving past the tap. Here is what design leaders should watch.
- Salesforce Just Bought Your Support Roadmap. Here's What to Do About It.
Salesforce is buying Fin for $3.6B and Fin now runs on rival helpdesks. Here's what the support-agent land grab means for your team and your build decisions.
- Autonomy Just Grew Up. Now It Has to Make Money.
Robotaxis and humanoid robots are moving from demo to product. Here is what the SPAC, the Zoox redesign, and the brake-pedal rule mean for your team.