Issue #750: Product design psychology
The layers of AI experience, Less is more, more or less, Design engineer principles, A2UI under the hood, Taste: Design DNA for agents, Astro 7.0, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Product design psychology - Understand the minds you're designing for and the mind you're designing with. - Wouter de Bres
- The layers of AI experience - We cannot control for every outcome directly through the interface, but we can design the conditions that shape a model's generation. - Andrew Campbell
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Less is more, more or less - In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all. - Jakub Krehel
Design engineering
- Design engineer principles - Principles for design engineers at Vercel. Obsess over usefulness, own the whole experience, and make the team better. - Vercel
Artificial intelligence
- A2UI under the hood - Designing for the new era of radically adaptive UI. An introduction for designers. - Christine Vallaure
Tools and resources
- Astro 7.0 - Together with Vite 8 and its new Rolldown bundler, Astro 7 builds are 15-61% faster in our benchmarks. - Emanuele Stoppa, Matt Kane, Matthew Phillips
- SHRTCTS — Know your shortcuts - An interactive 3D keyboard for learning the keyboard shortcuts of the apps you use every day. - Draniki
Inspiration and creativity
- The non-work - This is a collection of non-work projects I've done over the past couple of years. Things done on the side for fun. - Tim Van Damme
- Japanese symbols that speak without words - I’ve noticed that Japan has many examples of symbols that convey meaning entirely on their own. - Arun Venkatesan
Last but not least
- What does Figma do next? - Figma won against Sketch because it realized the center of gravity could change. Now that center of gravity is changing again. And Figma is on the other side of the innovator's dilemma. - Robin Cannon