Category: AI
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The Great Digital Overproduction Crisis: Designing Products for a World That Can’t Afford Them
Exploring the economic and creative consequences of digital overproduction in a world struggling to fund new products. Where do design, AI, and the future of value creation intersect?
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The Last Human Designer: A Manifesto for Creative Survival
A manifesto defending human creative consciousness against AI replacement. Designers must preserve creative authority while strategically leveraging AI tools, not surrendering to algorithmic efficiency. Human creativity remains irreplaceable.
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The Design Conference Industrial Complex: Learning vs. Networking
Why most design conferences fail: performance over substance, superficial networking, and little actionable value. A blunt guide for design leaders on when to invest, what to skip, and how to extract genuine ROI from your professional development budget.
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Remote Work Is Killing Design Leadership — And That’s a Good Thing
Remote work didn’t break design leadership—it revealed how fragile it was. The leaders thriving now aren’t recreating the office on Zoom. They’re architecting remote-first systems that trade performance theater for measurable impact. Here’s the shift.
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The Algorithmic Uncanny: When AI Gets Creativity Uncomfortably Right
When generative AI starts creating work that surprises—even unsettles—its own designers, what comes next? A provocative case for keeping human weirdness at the heart of algorithmic innovation.
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Unpopular by Design: Why AI Shouldn’t Make Us Comfortable
What if the future of digital design is not to soothe, but to provoke? An unflinching essay on why friction, discomfort, and the unapologetically unpopular are essential to truly meaningful AI-powered products.
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The Ghost in the Canvas: Why AI Needs Humans (Even If It Doesn’t Know It)
An urgent essay on why design teams can—and must—inject risk, contradiction, and reckless humanity into a world of frictionless AI. Because without humans, AI isn’t creative; it’s just empty.
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AI, Anarchy, & the End of Design as We Know It
A bold manifesto for designing at the edge of AI disruption, where chaos meets creativity and only the brave shape tomorrow.
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Design Without Ego: How AI is Demolishing the Lone Genius Myth in Product Development
Why the future of digital product innovation belongs to hybrid teams, not lone geniuses—and why real visionaries embrace collaboration with AI.
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Designing for Uncertainty: How Embracing the Unknown Fuels Digital Product Breakthroughs
Discover how digital leaders use uncertainty, ambiguity, and creative risk to drive breakthrough design in today’s AI-powered landscape.