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✦Spotting Good, Bad & Ugly Error Messages: A UX Guide✦The Art of Continuous Transformation: How Garden Eight Blends Integrity with Play✦Steal this UX framework from Dubai’s most over-the-top hotel✦Four questions every tool should answer (even Figma) about AI training model usage✦Figma vs. Claude Design: Two Fundamentally Different Design Workflows✦Building Cerebrium: Making Serverless Infrastructure Tangible✦The screens are getting demoted✦Easily animate loaders with the arc tool and Figma Motion✦I handed a UX review over to AI. Here’s what happened.✦AI can fake your portfolio. It can’t fake the second question.✦The feature trap✦Research shouldn’t end in a deck✦How to apply Nir Eyal’s Hook Model to AI products, safely
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A briefing that keeps itself current, so you don't have to.

Why this exists

I'm a product designer, and I kept missing things. A Figma feature would drop, NN/g would publish a landmark study, some new AI design tool would launch — and I'd only hear about it days later from a colleague. The information was all out there; it was just scattered across seventy-odd places: blogs, YouTube, newsletters, podcasts, RSS feeds. No matter how many tabs I kept open or how many lists I subscribed to, things slipped through.

So I built Designator. It pulls from all those sources automatically, summarizes each piece with AI so I can scan it in seconds, and lays everything out in one daily edition. My morning briefing went from thirty minutes of tab-hopping to about five.

It's opinionated on purpose — this isn't a firehose. The feed is weighted toward design and product, not just whatever published most recently. Tech news has a seat at the table; it just doesn't get to run the room.

How it works

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Collect

83 sources checked twice daily — RSS, YouTube, and light web scraping — with attribution back to the original.

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Summarize

AI reads each piece and distills it to 2–3 lines you can scan in seconds, so the morning takes five minutes, not thirty.

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Curate

Weighted by design relevance, not just recency. Tech news is there, but it never drowns out the design thinking.

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Designator is a side project, born from the daily frustration of keeping up. If you have a source to suggest or feedback to share, reach out — I read everything.

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