10 rules for crafting products

UX generalist, Carousels with CSS, Design technologists, Screenshot quality in Figma, The death of product development as we know it, and more.

Highlights of the week ↘

New course: AI for UX Design - Learn to integrate AI into your UX workflow to speed up research, ideation, prototyping, and more. Practical, proven strategies - not hype. 4 weeks, live online lectures, hands-on projects, weekly peer groups. Request syllabus. - Designlab SPONSORED

10 rules for crafting products that stand out - Linear’s CEO shares his approach to quality at a time when “move fast and break things” no longer cuts it. - Karri Saarinen

The death of product development as we know it - Goodbye three-legged stool, 2-pizza teams, and “managers”. - Julie Zhuo

Product design, UX/UI and PM ↘

We built UX. We broke UX. And now we have to fix it - We didn’t just lose our influence. We gave it away. - Dan Maccarone

The return of the UX generalist - AI advances make UX generalists valuable, reversing the trend toward specialization. Understanding multiple disciplines is increasingly important. - Sarah Gibbons, Evan Sunwall

Design engineering ↘

Do we really need icon bounding boxes? - There’s something bugging me about icons. - Luis Ouriach

Carousels with CSS - From Chrome 135, you can use features from the CSS Overflow 5 specification that have been designed to create scroll and carousel experiences. - Adam Argyle

Tools and resources ↘

Maintaining screenshot quality and color profile in Figma - If you take screenshots on an iOS device and work with those screenshots in Figma, you’re likely losing the Display P3 color profile and original screenshot image quality along the way. - Max Burnside

Inspiration and creativity ↘

Don Norman: Why being wrong made me successful - The legendary designer who coined “User Experience” and served as Apple’s VP, shares his insights from his remarkable career. - Future London Academy

Last but not least ↘

Maybe this is design technologists’ time to shine - Design technologists see problems and aggressively want to fix them. That often makes them incredible enablers. They thrive in solving problems other people/teams are facing. - PJ Onori

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