Articles
- 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.
- Draw the Lines Before the Reorg Draws Them for You
PM and PMM boundaries, pivot costs, and product sunsetting are blurring fast. Here's how to set clear ownership before a reorg forces your hand.
- Every App Wants to Be Every App Now
TikTok is going super-app, YouTube Shorts is cloning TikTok, and Meta is chasing glasses and betting. Here's what that copying means for your roadmap.
- AI Made It Cheap to Ship the Wrong Thing. Now What?
Build to learn vs build to earn: AI dropped the cost of delivery, so your real bottleneck is discovery. Here is what that means for your product team.
- Your Job Just Moved From Making the Thing to Judging the Thing
AI now does the making. The design skill that survives is critique: defining what good looks like and judging output. Here's how to staff and run reviews for it.
- What three illustrators figured out that your team is still fighting
Three illustrators built durable creative careers after burnout. Here's what their moves teach you about managing creative people and protecting their voice.
- Meta Is Shipping New Surfaces While Breaking the Floor They Stand On
Meta launched $299 smart glasses and a prediction-market app, but its engineering org is in free fall. Here's what product leaders should watch.
- Amplitude Just Handed the Analytics Loop to Agents. Where Do You Still Hold the Pen?
Amplitude's AI agents now instrument events, triage bugs, and find opportunities on their own. Here's where to trust autonomous analytics and where you don't.
- Your Agents Will Leak. The Question Is Whether You Built for It.
AI agent security just moved from research footnote to product requirement. Here's what DeepMind, ServiceNow, and others found, and what to do about it.
- Your design stack is being rebuilt around agents, whether you asked or not
Figma, Adobe, and Notion are redrawing the design and productivity toolchain around AI agents. Here is what changed and what to do about it.
- Your AI Ships Fast. It Can't Tell You What's Worth Shipping.
AI output is fluent but taste-free. Here's what that means for trust, differentiation, and how your design team makes calls in 2026.
- Your AI Has a Focus Problem, and Now You Can Prove It
New research gives design and product leaders real language for the AI trust talk: attention limits, correlated errors, and a productivity backfire.
- The Day a Coding Model Got Banned, and Your Roadmap Got Riskier
The US banned Anthropic's Fable model overnight. Here's what the Fable ban means for any team betting on a single frontier AI model.
- AI Made the Fun Part Fast. Now Comes the Boring Part.
AI product work is shifting from UI tweaks to monetization bets, clean data migrations, and compliance you budget up front. Here's what changed and what to do.