Issue #730: The state of buttons
Claude Code for designers, Intuitive designer, Design process, Problem framing, Early breakpoint, Agentic engineering, and more.
Highlights of the week
- The state of buttons - The button's complexity is a result of how flexible the concept of a button really is. - Liam Spradlin
- Claude Code for designers: A practical guide - A step-by-step guide to designing and shipping with Claude Code - Tommaso Nervegna
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Why designers can no longer trust the design process (video) - With AI accelerating prototyping, smaller teams doing more, and craft becoming a key differentiator, rigid processes are failing designers. - Jenny Wen, Hatch Conference
- The return of the intuitive designer in the age of AI - Stay relevant by honing your intuition, not your process. - James Harrison
- Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy - Skipping to designing the solution before you have adequately designed the problem is not speeding you up, but slowing you down. - Pavel Samsonov
Design engineering
- The too early breakpoint - An opinion on why we shouldn't switch to the smallest design too early. - Ahmad Shadeed
- Figma variables still don’t understand systems - They’re great at holding values, but terrible at explaining how those values are derived. - Josh Cusick
- Shades of halftone - An interactive deep dive into building halftone shaders in GLSL. - Maxime Heckel
Artificial intelligence
- How product discovery changes with AI - Understanding the new uncertainty to de-risk. - David Hoang
- Agentic engineering - Vibe coding = YOLO. Agentic engineering = AI does the implementation, human owns the architecture, quality, and correctness. - Addy Osmani
Tools and resources
- The new UX toolkit - Data, context, and evals. - Paz Perez
- NotebookLM for Product Designers - NotebookLM is one of the most interesting yet often overlooked free AI tools from Google. - Nick Babich
- Dithering - Part 2 - Understanding threshold map in ordered dithering. - Damar Aji Pramudita
Last but not least
- Replication is not innovation - AI’s efficiency gains don’t justify trillion-dollar valuations. - Christopher Butler