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Product design with AI: our job is about setting our standard for AI

TLDR: AI can do a lot of what designers used to do, and it’s easy to feel replaced. One analogy I heard encouraged me to think it’s less about losing our jobs and more about knowing our own standard of work well enough to teach it to AI. Even my mom talks about AI Everyone hears about AI, and everyone talks about AI. I walk down the street and hear people talking about it. Even my mom talks about AI. Her new hobby is sending me AI-generated memes, which is quite sweet, to be honest. This is an opinion I shared with my design team recently, about what all this means for us. Underneath the noise

Muzli · EN

This is how I work with AI as a Designer right now.

TLDR: This is what my actual day-to-day workflow with AI looks like right now, skill by skill: ideating an idea deeply before writing any code, turning it into tickets an agent can run, branching into a few prototypes before committing to one, then bringing in style and polish last. The way I used to work For a long time, my way of working with AI was just stacking prompts. I’d write one, wait, look at what came back, give a note. Then often remember a second thing I’d forgotten and have to write another prompt just for that. The context window kept getting longer, and I never knew how many pr

Muzli · EN

You’ve Designed the Story, But How Does It Unfold?

Why designers need to understand performance, critical paths and what happens before information reaches the screen. The experience we design is only what happens on stage. Behind it, a whole system of dependencies determines when the performance can begin. Back in 2014, I wrote an article about why we put CSS in the head of an HTML document . It explored the browser’s critical rendering path, and how something as seemingly simple as putting CSS directly into a page rather than loading an external stylesheet could affect how quickly that page appeared. At the time, I was working primarily in f

Muzli · EN

How Bad Bunny Turned the World’s Cheapest Chair Into a Pop Icon

A collage of Bad Bunny with the Monobloc chair by Francesco Maria Furno No one paid any attention to the Monobloc until Bad Bunny came along to dignify the most common chair in the world. A piece of white plastic that has filled our everyday spaces since the day it was born, with its bland, anodyne spirit. The Monobloc is the commercial product par excellence for resting our backsides. Cheap, easy to stack, transport, and replace, and pretty sturdy for the price it sells at. After the Puerto Rican artist’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, it’s not only one of the best-selling objects but one of the most

Muzli · EN

The Invisible: Graphic Design in Film

Movie posters by Javier Jaen (Madres Paralelas), Vasilis Marmatakis (Poor Things) and Maria Medem (Secaderos) We’re close to a new season of film festivals, awards and galas where movies and big productions take centre stage. But graphic design isn’t quite in the spotlight. This is a journey to discover the invisible side of a great visual art. Yes. It’s true. I admit the headline is a bit clickbait, but it’s also kind of true — and if you read to the end, you’ll see how we got here. Graphic design is recognizable (if not exactly recognized ) when we look at a movie poster, because it’s the ke

Muzli · EN

Liquid Glass in iOS 27: How to Test Your UI With the New Slider

Where the slider is and how to check your UI at both ends. Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »

Muzli · EN

The Next UX Problem: What If AI Does Exactly What We Asked, But Not What We Meant?

We wanted AI to save us time. But what happens when it starts making decisions on our behalf? Imagine this. You open an AI assistant and type: “Find me a good hotel for my weekend trip. Compare the prices, check the reviews, and book the best option.” A few minutes later, the AI comes back. It found three hotels, compared their prices, checked their ratings, selected one, and completed the booking. Everything happened without you opening another tab. Sounds wonderful, right? Now imagine discovering that the hotel is 20 kilometres away from the city centre. The AI selected it because it was che

Muzli · EN

Samia Halaby and the Amiga 1000

The unique features of the Motorola 68000 that facilitated an enchanting Golden Age for pixel art Continue reading on UX Collective »

UX Collective · EN

Your design system was never about components

Google, Atlassian and Figma now ship a file for the reasons behind a design. Nothing makes the machine follow it. Continue reading on UX Collective »

UX Collective · EN

Context is the new interface

The future of design lies in what happens between products A conceptual illustration of how AI agents use onscreen context to help the system interpret and use app capabilities. AI generated image, Aurélie Radom ©. Imagine you receive a message from a friend recommending a restaurant. You want to check where it is, see whether you are free that evening, and reply with a time that works for both of you. You search through your messages, open the link, check the location, switch to your calendar, return to the conversation, and finally write your reply. Each step is simple on its own, but togeth

UX Collective · EN

How to design transparent AI cost controls

A practical guide to choosing usage units, designing spending limits, and explaining AI costs before, during, and after the work. Every AI response has a price. People often discover it only when a limit hits or a bill arrives. A quick edit and a long-running agent can look almost identical in the interface. One finishes in seconds. The other might read hundreds of files, call external tools, and retry steps along the way. Yet both start with the same button. Meanwhile, AI products keep changing what they charge for: requests, credits, tasks, usage allowances. Showing more technical numbers wo

UX Collective · EN

When colors pass but palettes fail

The accessibility challenge of generative AI diverging color palettes. Continue reading on UX Collective »

UX Collective · EN

Sparkle buttons, Autonomy by design, AI reckoning in UX, Figma with MCP

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Open any product you pay for and look at the top right corner. There is a sparkle. Behind it is a panel that slides in from the right, says “Ask anything”, and offers three suggestions you did not ask for. Close it and it comes back after the next update, sometimes with a new name.” Nobody asked for the sparkle button → By Jon Sabutis What AI interviews taught us about designing conversational AI → [Sponsored] Follow-ups that build on what you said. Less pressure to perform. Control over pacing. What participants, skeptics included

UX Collective · EN

Virtue ethics in everyday interface design

How wording, hierarchy, and moments of friction can support considered action. Aristotle statue by Jerry Anderson at Southern Utah University’s Centurium, Cedar City, Utah. Image source: Southern Utah University . One thing that troubles me about designers is how readily some treat public expressions of moral conviction as evidence of sound ethical judgment. They announce their commitments to causes they regard as worthy, speak confidently about responsible practice, yet fail to examine their own biases or the ethical tensions within their decisions. Virtue signaling is not a substitute for re

UX Collective · EN

State of a system

Almost eight years ago, I started working on a design system that I got the opportunity to revisit just a few years later. The second round became as big a push with far fewer people. Now, three years after ending the work I’m finally ready to share that experience. My thesis: A rigid design kit is a cache of design decisions, prone to becoming obsolete with the requirements constantly evolving. Documenting practices and boundaries leaves powerless responsibility for upholding coherence to designers and developers. Governing an LLM skill could be a better basis for an evolving design system th

UX Collective · EN

Architizer in Paris: The First-Ever Live Celebration of the Vision Awards Winners

Architizer celebrated the 2026 Vision Awards winners live in Paris with a captivating keynote from Thomas Heatherwick and a winners’ salon. The post Architizer in Paris: The First-Ever Live Celebration of the Vision Awards Winners appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

Beyond Symbolism: Farshid Moussavi on the Ismaili Center in Houston

The cultural building and community center reinterprets Islamic design philosophy through geometry, climate-responsive design, and generous civic spaces. The post Beyond Symbolism: Farshid Moussavi on the Ismaili Center in Houston appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

The Case for Human Judgment: Alison Brooks on Designing with Generosity at Every Scale

The British-Canadian architect and A+Awards juror on the qualitative decisions that shape generous architecture, and the human skills behind every great building. The post The Case for Human Judgment: Alison Brooks on Designing with Generosity at Every Scale appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

The Last Touchpoints: 11 Design Components for the Moments Automation Can’t Replace

As buildings learn to run themselves, the few things we still touch become more valuable than ever. The post The Last Touchpoints: 11 Design Components for the Moments Automation Can’t Replace appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

Why Architecture Needs a Post-Occupancy Crit

Architecture school teaches architects to defend their decisions, but occupation teaches them what those decisions actually meant. The post Why Architecture Needs a Post-Occupancy Crit appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

35 Best Architecture and Design Firms in New York

New York City is arguably the epicenter of the architecture industry in the U.S. These are the city's top firms. The post 35 Best Architecture and Design Firms in New York appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

The Future of Architecture Is Human: Enter the 15th A+Awards “Project of the Year”

The 15th A+Awards’ top honor celebrates the thinkers, clients, communities and makers behind the buildings that define architecture today. The post The Future of Architecture Is Human: Enter the 15th A+Awards “Project of the Year” appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

7 Firms at the Forefront of Sustainable Architectural Practice

The word sustainability gets thrown around a lot, and these firms show what it actually means in practice. The post 7 Firms at the Forefront of Sustainable Architectural Practice appeared first on Journal .

Architizer · EN

Context Libraries: How AI Power Users Manage Context Engineering

Claude power users rarely edit their context files and often can’t find them. Your AI agent is only as powerful as its context library.

Nielsen Norman Group · EN