Mistaking comfort for effectiveness

Keeping people for the sake of stability can be the most selfish thing a leader does.

Nov 11 • Dave Chen

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We sped up our research process by 50%. Here's how we did it.

Five steps for getting time back with AI, and what to spend it on once you do

Nov 4 • Dave Chen

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October 2026

Kill your AI darlings

Writing with AI saves you time; sharing it without thoughtful edits spends everyone’s else’s

Oct 28 • Danielle Klein

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Teaching AI agents taste

Polly D'Arcy, VP of Design at Wealthsimple, on what happens to a design team when anyone can ship, managing “design drift”, and how to teach agents (and…

Oct 21 • Danielle Klein and Dave Chen

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40 years, 19 principles

Lessons from managers, mentors, and a few long days.

Oct 14 • Dave Chen

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Staying creative when AI has all the answers

Ricardo Vázquez, design leader at Stripe, on why keeping a spirit of play matters in designing products, and how mimicry turns into invention

Oct 7 • Danielle Klein, Dave Chen, and Ricardo Vazquez

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September 2026

What a product vision actually has to do

A tactical guide to what makes a vision strong and how to decide what you produce

Sep 30 • Danielle Klein

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Peanut butter, jelly and mustard

Matt Davey, Chief Experience Officer at 1Password and our boss, on his viral AI maturity model for UX teams, hiring for the thing that lights someone…

Sep 23 • Danielle and Dave

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We’ll be back in a couple of weeks!

A few of our greatest hits, while we're off touching grass

Sep 9 • Danielle and Dave

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Stop shipping outputs. Start shipping products.

Even when the customer is just our own team.

Sep 1 • Dave Chen

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August 2026

A vision is a chapter, not the whole book

On the iterative nature of product vision, and where to begin

Aug 25 • Danielle Klein

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From "do more with less" to "less is more"

Jessica Pavia, Head of UX Research & Operations at BMO, on the question she asks before every plan, and why AI has to earn its place too

Aug 19 • Danielle and Dave

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