A model for rethinking what makes a designer in the age of AI.
Adrian Z. · Human Interface Designer
Designer working at the intersection of art, design, and AI.
Evolving Design Language in the AI Era: From Good to Great
Explore how the AI era reshapes design language, emphasizing objective critique over subjective opinions for successful outcomes.
Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
AI Artists Have No Role Models
Prompt Engineers Lack Any Canon, Don't You? AI artists have an existential problem: they consume only their own work, severing the dialogue of culture that…
Good design hasn’t changed with AI — John Pham, SF Compute
Maggie Appleton - How to design for the future of AI products and LLMs (Dive Club Ep. 57)
Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis
AI didn’t create the craft crisis in design — it exposed the technical literacy gap that’s been eroding strategic influence for over a decade.
How much of a UX designer’s job can AI really do? Here’s my day…
Jenny Wen: The design process is dead. Why Designers can no longer trust it.
A tale of two Agent Builders
What two competing solutions to the same design problem tell about the future of designing AI interfaces.
Designs for the pluriverse: radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds
"Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls 'autonomous design'--a design practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth"--Publisher description
On Design Thinking | Maggie Gram
By embracing “design thinking,” we attribute to design a kind of superior epistemology: a way of knowing, of “solving,” that is better than the old and local and blue-collar and municipal and unionized and customary ways. We bring in “design thinkers” — some of them designers by trade, many of them members of adjacent knowledge fields — to “empathize” with Kaiser hospital nurses, Gainesville city workers, church leaders, young mothers, and guerrilla fighters the world over.
I lost my UX career to AI (I'm done)