Designator

You’re Using Claude Design Wrong

Claude Design is often misunderstood as a tool for generating final designs, rather than a tool for quick ideation.

4 Aug5 min read

Designing for the proxy

AI is changing the design audience, as digital experiences now often interact with machines, like language models, before reaching human users.

2 Aug7 min read

Perplexity diverges with color

Perplexity, a text-based generative AI model, can serve as a color suggestion tool for building diverging color schemes in data visualizations, requiring user modification of Hex code suggestions.

1 Aug7 min read

Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center

Creative technologists are increasingly central to product teams, bridging design, code, systems, and storytelling as AI reduces the gap between ideas and implementation.

1 Aug13 min read

I Tried Logo Design with Claude Design and It’s Amazing

Claude Design is used for logo creation and various design tasks, including slide deck and HTML email template design.

31 Jul7 min read

Jakob’s law: How to apply it as AI collapses surfaces into one chat box

AI assistants are consolidating tasks into one conversational surface, changing how Jakob's Law applies to user interface design.

30 Jul17 min read

Rethinking friction in an AI world

Frictionless design can sometimes be counterproductive, as removing all obstacles can lead to a lack of engagement or understanding.

30 Jul6 min read

Your people get AI. Get out of their way.

Ninety-five percent of corporate AI projects fail due to company bureaucracy and lack of trust in employees.

29 Jul13 min read

Battling AI fatigue as a designer and developer: a practical guide

Designers and developers can combat AI fatigue by limiting AI usage in personal life and doing fun tasks themselves.

29 Jul8 min read

The UX of Contrast: Lessons from Indika’s Game Design

Indika's game design uses contrast to shape player interpretation of the story and emotional conflict.

29 Jul14 min read

Smashing Magazine

The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI

AI may give designers greater autonomy to create and implement design solutions with less need for permission from others.

29 Jul10 min read

The MOS 6502: the people’s princess

The MOS 6502 chip impacted design by blending arcade game UI concepts with affordable 1970s calculator chips.

28 Jul7 min read

From frictionless to meaningful

Friction in design can create memorable experiences, invite reflection, and help users connect with others and consume less.

27 Jul11 min read

Claude Opus 5 for Product Designers

Anthropic released Opus 5, its latest AI model, which is capable but slow and expensive.

27 Jul7 min read

Information architecture is the foundation artificial intelligence is starving for

Poor information architecture causes AI problems like hallucinations and wrong answers due to disorganized content stores.

26 Jul12 min read

Your website is boring (but that might just set it free)

The templated web, driven by efficiency and conversion optimization, has led to homogenized websites, sacrificing brand differentiation and making them forgettable.

26 Jul7 min read

The seams are where the system lives

Partitioning a system into clean modules does not remove complexity, it instead relocates the complexity to the seams between those modules, as seen in city zoning and software microservices.

26 Jul8 min read

Steal this UX framework from Dubai’s most over-the-top hotel

A Google UX researcher suggests studying hotels, specifically Dubai's Atlantis The Palm, to uncover hidden user experience design principles in hospitality.

23 Jul7 min read

Four questions every tool should answer (even Figma) about AI training model usage

Design tools should answer four questions regarding their AI model training practices to build user trust, especially after recent controversies involving Figma, Zoom, Slack, and Adobe.

23 Jul17 min read