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85    <li><a href="/designing-for-2026-ai/"><span class="title">Designing for 2026: Process, Agency, and Decision Quality in the Age of AI</span> <span class="date"> - Jan 2026</span><span class="excerpt">Reflections from a design team workshop on how the design process is evolving as AI reshapes the pace and shape of work, with a focus on agency, decision quality, and...</span></a></li>
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89    <li><a href="/dogfooding/"><span class="title">Dogfooding: The Habit That Builds Better Products</span> <span class="date"> - Oct 2025</span><span class="excerpt">Using your own product might be the single most powerful habit a product team can build. How leaning into dogfooding builds empathy, surfaces friction, and creates a culture of continuous...</span></a></li>
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93    <li><a href="/ui-power-hour/"><span class="title">The UI Power Hour: A 60-Minute Ritual For Product Polish</span> <span class="date"> - Sep 2025</span><span class="excerpt">Every two weeks a designer and engineer team up, set a one-hour timer, and hammer through small but meaningful UX or UI updates that often don’t make it into a...</span></a></li>
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97    <li><a href="/ai-design-agency-prototyping/"><span class="title">Empowering Design Agency: How AI is Revolutionizing Early-Stage Prototyping</span> <span class="date"> - Apr 2025</span><span class="excerpt">How AI “vibe coding” tools are putting rapid code-based prototyping power directly into the hands of designers, giving them greater agency in the creative process from the very start.
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103    <li><a href="/rise-of-the-design-engineer/"><span class="title">The Rise of the Design Engineer</span> <span class="date"> - Sep 2024</span><span class="excerpt">Having a Design Engineer on your team is a game changer. Attention to detail, product quality, and velocity all benef

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107    <li><a href="/design-craft-details/"><span class="title">Design Craft & Shipping the Details</span> <span class="date"> - Jun 2024</span><span class="excerpt">Craft &amp; quality in design, or any work you do, is important. Yet most companies are really bad at following through with the details. Here are examples of companies doing...</span></a></li>
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111    <li><a href="/figma-plugins-for-designers/"><span class="title">How to develop your first Figma plugin for designers</span> <span class="date"> - Apr 2024</span><span class="excerpt">I recently developed my first Figma plugin. It wasn’t hard, and my whole team joined in, exposing us to what is possible with the Figma API. Here’s a quick tutorial…...</span></a></li>
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115    <li><a href="/design-team-principles/"><span class="title">Why & How to Create Design Team Principles</span> <span class="date"> - Jan 2024</span><span class="excerpt">As your design team grows, it’s important to establish a set of design principles. This keeps the team (+ org) aligned across all functions of design. For us that includes...</span></a></li>
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119    <li><a href="/engineering-product-design-triad/"><span class="title">How Product Design works with Product Managers and Engineers</span> <span class="date"> - Nov 2023</span><span class="excerpt">When interviewing designers, PMs or engineers, I’ll usually get asked “how do you all work together?”. How does engineering work with PMs? PMs with design? Design with engineering? My response...</span></a></li>
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