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Two gears, one compass: designing at velocity while sustaining quality

How to build an AI-augmented design practice by leaning on 2 mindset shiftsIllustration by Roberlan Borges ParesquiDesign process isn’t dead — it’s conditionalThe claim “the design...

Applying Design Thinking Principles for Career Development | Simplilearn

In the product design and development field, everyone has a distinct role to play. Some focus on product functionality, some on the user interface, and yet others on how to continu...

Are you solving the wrong problem?

I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a proble...

What critical thinking means for senior designers (and how to apply it)

Re-designing mocks is slowly becoming the bulk of design workContinue reading on UX Collective »

How thinking and making shape the next gen of creatives

Choosing a creative career can feel overwhelming, but combining critical thinking with hands-on practice can help students prepare for the realities of the creative industries, wri...

Can ‘Applied Creativity’ be the next ‘Design Thinking?’

In a January 2025 podcast episode, Open AI CEO Sam Altman was asked what the most important skill would be in the age of AI. His answer was—in simplest terms—the ability to ask cre...

Discovery is a capability, not a phase

The judgment layer most discovery practice leaves unexploredImage created by Author using DALL-E 3You can measure what happened with a product after you released it. What most disc...

How to Think and Work Divergently – 4 Ideation Methods

[[video:78]] We can all become stuck when we need to think divergently and come up with lots of new and fresh ideas. Maybe you know your area so well that it’s hard to see it from...

Design ist eine Haltung

Für Alice Rawsthorn ist Design weit mehr als Formgebung: Es ist ein Werkzeug, um gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen zu bewältigen. Im Gespräch erklärt sie, warum Gestalter*innen h...

The Unexpected Fields Where Design Thinking Is Becoming a Leadership Skill

Most designers have had a version of this experience: you’re explaining why a colour choice matters, why the hierarchy on a page guides the reader’s eye before they even register i...

要件定義の停滞を具体像で突破　開発を着実に推し進めるプロトタイピングの実践

新しい価値を持つ製品開発では、要件定義の段階で議論が停滞しがちだ。本連載では、83Designが実践する「直感」と「論理」を使い分けるデザイン手法を紹介する。第1回は、具体像を用いたプロト...

Why systems thinking is becoming the most important UX skill

As apps become more context-aware, the designer’s job is shifting from shaping screens to shaping systems.Systems thinking — going beyond the screen. Image generated by AI.Apple ma...

Design That Solves Problems

Design as a function

The future of design isn’t about pixels. It’s about function. And the organisations that figure that out first will be the ones that win.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Designing how designers master AI

Mastering an AI tool isn’t learning its correct use. It’s learning to bend it to how you already think — and that kind of mastery is personal, divergent, and never finished.Diagram...

You don’t design the interface anymore. You design the deciding.

The agent is only the material. The discipline is what it’s allowed to decide.Continue reading on UX Collective »

ioana teleanu shifts AI tools from thinking for you to making you think

designboom in a conversation with ioana teleanu about how AI is fundamentally changing the contemporary design landscape. The post ioana teleanu shifts AI tools from thinking for...

The Kintsugi problem

The most important design decisions aren’t made when everything works — they’re made when it doesn’t.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Make room to think, or stay reactive

Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking

In a world where AI is informing more design choices, it’s easy to mistake predictions for certainties. This article introduces Probabilistic Design, a mindset that allows UX and p...

‘design intuition is not magic’: designers talk how creativity emerges subconsciously

when a designer infuses an object with subconscious depth and fetishistic attention to detail, they create a sustainable emotional bond between the product and user. The post ‘desi...

Systems Thinking in Design: Uliana Salo, Platform Design Leader

Uliana Salo approaches design less as visual craft, and more as systems architecture. Having worked on creator ecosystems, large-scale consumer... The post Systems Thinking in Desi...

Innovation Engineering: How Firms Can Think Bigger and Ask Better Questions

Most firms are aiming their newest tools at the work they already do — pouring their most powerful technology into running the same tasks a little faster. But when everyone automat...

Never mind the prompts, here’s the thinking

I spent a year rebuilding my studio’s entire design process around AI. It didn’t make us faster, and that’s exactly why it worked. It also left behind a kind of debt nobody’s talki...