AI-native software development leaves UX out of the loop
It gives you language to push back when a client's AI-native dev process treats user research as optional context rather than a decision that shapes what gets built.


AI tool strategy belongs with the people who use them
It's a concrete argument you can bring into a client conversation about who should own AI tool evaluation versus who just manages the contract.

UX market contraction repeats a 20-year pattern, not a new threat
The 71% job-posting drop gets reframed as a cyclical oversupply correction rather than proof AI replaced designers, which should change how you read the panic headlines.
border-shapesimplifies curved connectors between positioned elements
border-shape with anchor positioning is a genuinely new primitive for building curved, responsive connectors without the usual SVG or JS overhead.

Geist Serif completes a typeface system for product and display
A serif built inside an existing type system gives you a second typographic voice for headlines without breaking the grammar you already rely on.
Aplomb fragrance uses letter-writing codes for luxury brand identity

Aplomb's packaging shows how one coherent metaphor, carried without decoration, reads as more intimate and premium than visual abundance ever could.
Website migration costs approach zero reshaping CMS vendor power
If migration costs really go to zero, the leverage in client relationships shifts from lock-in to whoever controls the agent doing the recommending, which is worth thinking through before a client asks.

Text-to-CAD for agents extend design beyond the screen
An open-source natural-language CAD tool plugged into Claude Code and Cursor is a concrete test of whether generative design now reaches past screens into physical products.
AI-native software development leaves UX out of the loop
It gives you language to push back when a client's AI-native dev process treats user research as optional context rather than a decision that shapes what gets built.

Read the NN/g piece on agentic software factories and check whether your current client AI workflow treats UX research as a decision input or just generation context.