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Designers, your next user won’t be human
Jensen Huang stood on stage at GTC 2026 and made a claim that should have sent every product designer into a spiral. He said that every single SaaS company in the world will become an agentic-as-a-service company, that Open Claw is to AI agents what Linux was to servers and HTML was to the web. And that $150 billion in venture capital poured into AI startups last year alone, the largest investment wave in human history…
Five tips to Prevent Claude Code from Creating Generic Designs
If you ask Claude to generate a web page for you, there is a high chance you will get a very generic output. You can see that this design clearly serves the functional purpose, but doesn’t look very appealing.
But you can easily avoid that and create a more refined, sophisticated design that will be much harder to link to AI-generated stuff. Here are 5 tips that will help you avoid that…
Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
Design isn’t only pixels and patterns. It’s pacing and feelings, too. Some products feel cinematic as they guide us through uncertainty, relief, confidence, and calm without yanking us around. That’s Emotion in Flow. Others undercut their own moments with a joke in the wrong place, a surprise pop-up, or a jumpy transition. That’s Emotion in Conflict…
Forget lovable products, the real leverage is learning
Every day, we open our screens to learn that something has died. UX is dead. MVP is dead. Innovation is dead. All dead. Just like that, someone decides that something is irrelevant. And that’s when they take the opportunity to introduce a new definition of what design should be — like “lovable.”
Knowing and understanding are two different things – looking at Daniel Kahneman.
I like a good reframe. Don’t you? It used to be that saying “I don’t know” felt like honesty. Why does it now feel like it means something else? Why do follow up questions feel like predetermined resentments? (a phrase I used on my first date with my wife of now 13 years about having expectations). I’m Nate Sowder, and this is…
How accepting “just build this thing” can hurt your design career
Imagine you’re starting a new project. You sit down for the kickoff meeting, and the PM walks in already holding something: a Figma Make mockup, a competitor screenshot, or an AI-generated wireframe from Sketch.
They already have a solution, and people are excited. They just look to you and say, “Can you ‘do your magic’ and make it ready?” What do you do?
The art of conversational flow
A lot is changing. Like many other Product Designers in our field, I’ve been in the throes of rapid change on a number of levels due to the advent of AI. Roles are changing and adapting. Innovation and experimentation are rampant. Likely, you’re…
Claude Code CLAUDE.md vs Skills
What information should I put in CLAUDE.md, and what information should I put in Skills? This is actually one of the most important…
Google Research at The Check Up: from healthcare innovation to real-world care settings
AI can be instrumental in helping billions of people live longer, healthier lives. Today at The Check Up, our colleagues shared how we’re entering a new era of innovation to democratize scientific and clinical research.
Improving breast cancer screening workflows with machine learning
A large-scale evaluation of our mammography system across multiple screening services demonstrates its potential to enhance cancer detection accuracy and reduce workload within complex double-reading workflows.
Glassmorphism and Minimalist UX: The Next-Gen Visual Language
In the high-stakes world of B2B technology, the “industrial” look of software—clunky menus, heavy drop shadows, and crowded spreadsheets—is officially a relic of the past. As we move through 2026, a new aesthetic has emerged as the gold standard for high-performance tools: Glassmorphism. For a modern software development agency, design is no longer just a “wrapper”; it is a …
The last interface, sycophancy in AI, design is how it wins
At the end of February, a report by Citrini Research caused major shockwaves through the software industry, sending the stock prices of heavyweight SaaS organizations like Atlassian and Slack to nosedive. The Citrini Report follows AI’s current trajectory and projects that 2028 will bring a self-inflicted corporate doom…
Claude Code Project Structure Best Practices
When you work with Claude Code, organizing projects well makes a huge difference…
Testing LLMs on superconductivity research questions
Can LLMs become expert-level research partners in modern physics? Using high-temperature superconductivity as a case study, physicists tested six LLMs with challenging questions and graded the responses.
What Is a UX Audit and Why Your Website Needs One: Scope, Cost, and Deliverables
Your website is your highest-performing sales and marketing asset, or at least it should be. When users struggle to navigate a page, abandon a checkout flow, or leave without converting, those are not random events. They are structural signals that a professional UX audit can identify, diagnose, and resolve with precision. A UX audit is a structured evaluation of your website’s user experience …
Context engineering: A repeatable AI workflow for product designers
A step-by-step method to feed AI the right inputs in the right order, without prompt gymnastics. …
A designer’s field report on the Iconic blind spot in AI world models
The Baron Munchausen trap.Baron Munchausen pulling himself and his horse from the swamp by his own hair — the original self-referential escape attempt. Image generated by Google Gemini. Image concept by the author.In my last post, I shared a surprisingly moving moment with my AI collaborator, Gemi (Google’s Gemini). By shifting into a designer’s mode of strategic empathy, I uncovered a …
AI Is Not Replacing UX Designers It’s Replacing the Boring Parts
The panic is real — but misplaced Every few months, a new article declares that AI will replace designers. I’ve been designing for over 15 years, and I’ve heard this before — about templates, about no-code tools, about offshore teams. None of them killed design. AI won’t either. But AI is changing how I work. And honestly? It’s the best thing that’s happened to my workflow since Figma …
Building Conversational AI Agents That Remember: LangGraph, Postgres Checkpointing, and the Future of Financial UX
How interrupt/resume graph topology turns stateless LLMs into stateful financial advisors — and why this changes everything for CFO-facing AI products. The Problem Nobody Talks About Every demo of a financial AI agent looks the same: the user asks a question, the agent answers, end of story. One shot. One turn. The agent forgets you exist the moment the response is sent. But real financial …
Stop the Generic Portfolio Trap! Design a Stand-Out Portfolio for Your UX/UI Niche
Your UX/UI portfolio is your ticket to your dream job, brief or client. It’s your opportunity to show off your expertise, creativity, and the tangible impact of your work. No matter your niche, your portfolio should be as innovative and polished as the projects it represents.Think of your portfolio as your personal design project—it needs a clear strategy, attention to detail, and a focus on …
