Design debt is as dangerous as technical debt

👤 Arin Bhowmick
📅 2026-03-24

If you want to put AI adoption at risk, ignore the design debt at your peril

It doesn’t announce itself. It sits there quietly, underneath every UX decision you make. Then one day the cost of moving forward is so high that you can’t look down. This is an accurate way of describing what it feels like to accumulate design debt. If you had shivers just from reading it, you’ve been there. Frankly, we’ve all been there at some point, despite… Full Product UX article at UX Collective »

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