Issue #765: The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal
Imperfection, The convergence of design, Designing for voice first, What the 500 in blue-500 means, Fluid functionalism, Anatomy, and more.
Highlights of the week
- The design tool for teams shipping with agents - Introducing Paper: a connected canvas, a new workflow for designers. Let agents do the busy work so you can focus on the decisions only you can make. - Paper sponsored
- The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal - AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate. - Pavel Samsonov
- Imperfection - The more imperfect it got, the more it felt like mine (and like me). - Manuel Muñoz Solera
Read all week, picked once. The best design links, every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- The convergence of design - Once a product's purpose becomes clear, design can get out of the way. - Luke Wroblewski
- Designing for voice first - These are five principles I've been working through. Some get more difficult when you put them together, particularly when you move from someone speaking at their desk to someone talking through their AirPods with their phone in their pocket. - Anton Sten
Design engineering
- What the 500 in blue-500 means - blue-500 means whatever its palette decided it means, and in many of the palettes teams use, that is only where the shade sits in the ramp. - Shrawani Bhattarai
Tools and resources
- Fluid functionalism - A design philosophy where every animation serves a functional purpose — motion is information, not decoration. - Micka Touillaud
Inspiration and creativity
- Anatomy - Anatomy is a skill for Claude Code that does this. You name an idea in one line, Claude invents a machine that does it, and draws it as a live isometric figure you can turn, press and read. - Ryan
- mkdir: Curated design inspiration directories - Galleries, award sites, landing page collections and section libraries, picked by hand and kept short on purpose. - Edoardo Lunardi
Last but not least
- Chat is AI’s command line - I want a world built to make ourselves more capable with AI, not just to have more capable agents to talk to. - Amelia Wattenberger