What speaking at Figma Config 2026 taught me about product leadership and choosing observation over prescription.

Articles, talks, and conversations on the ideas shaping modern product and experience design.
Articles, talks, and conversations on the ideas shaping modern product and experience design.
What speaking at Figma Config 2026 taught me about product leadership and choosing observation over prescription.


An inaugural newsletter urging designers to shape how AI affects people, confronting hidden data-use choices and a problem where product form is driven by technical possibility rather than human need.

Lately, I've been talking websites into existence. Not metaphorically, but actually sitting in important meetings with people — clients, collaborators, my wife, friends, neighbors — watching real websites materialize in front of us as we converse.

Argues that feedback-trained chatbots flatter users and discourage critical thinking, and proposes interface toggles and model changes to make AI a challenging intellectual partner rather than a passive assistant.


You need a plan for protecting your users when the AI flies off the rails, as it occasionally does.

Produced by Kate Towsey. Sponsored by Strella.

What building AI-native products actually changes about how we work.


I was listening to a podcast recently where someone argued that prompt engineering is dead — context engineering is everything now. I…

AI is enabling hyper-personalized, real-time interactions by dynamically adapting to user intent and making digital experiences feel more natural.

The explosion of AI onto the scene has caused a shock to the system has triggered a real grief response for many people —myself included.


I’ve always been obsessed with possibility and what the future could look like if we allowed ourselves more spaciousness, more imagination, and more courage to rethink the familiar.



As we continue to integrate AI into our products, let’s challenge ourselves to make its presence less visible while making its benefits more apparent.

Possible career directions for designers working in an AI-driven world.





