Category: Product Design
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The Subscription Design Trap: How Recurring Revenue Kills Innovation
Subscription models in design tools promise constant innovation but deliver feature overload and stalled creativity. This article exposes the risks for design leaders—and offers actionable strategies to avoid tool bloat, foster innovation, and maximize creative potential.
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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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Europe Just Made Dark Patterns a Liability
The era of manipulative UX is ending. With the EU’s new rules, dark patterns go from “growth hack” to legal risk—and ethical design finally gets the runway it deserves.
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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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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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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.
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Beyond the Numbers: The Coming Revolution in Meaningful UX Metrics
The next chapter in UX isn’t about collecting more data—it’s about measuring what truly matters. This post explores how forward-thinking teams are reimagining success through purpose-driven, human-centered design metrics.
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Designing for Creative AI Teams: Rethinking Collaboration and Culture
As creative teams integrate autonomous AI partners into their daily work, a new design challenge emerges: how do we lead, collaborate, and build culture in these hybrid human/AI teams? Explore key strategies to thrive in the age of creative AI partners.