Breaking news 🔥 More proof that designers make great founders! Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for ~$3.6B, making co-founder and designer Des Traynor one of the most successful designers in history. Congrats to the whole team!
To celebrate this, I put together a list of the Top 10 Design-Led Company Exits, including Airbnb, Slack, Mailchimp or YouTube.
Go designers! 🚀
In the age of AI, one long-forgotten design field is set for a resurrection. Funny enough, it has a similar acronym - IA (Information Architecture). Because AI needs well-structured and documented data (design systems, content…). The field dedicated to exactly that? Yeah, IA.
Excited to launch Pencil
INFINITE DESIGN CANVAS for Claude Code
> Superfast WebGL canvas, fully editable, running parallel design agents
> Runs locally with Claude Code → turn designs into code
> Design files live in your git repo → Open json-based .pen format
Some leaders are even a bit sad their designers aren’t that excited yet—but I think the excitement will catch on eventually. Do your team feels the same?
I talk to dozens of design leaders every month, and I’ve noticed a clear split in how AI’s seen in design. The gap between designers and leaders is interesting.
Leaders see it differently. They’re talking about a full rethink of teams and workflows. “Designers who ship” comes up a lot—some are testing tools like Cursor or V0, even discussing designers pushing code to production.
Probably the best thing you'll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results 🧵
1/22
Good design and product leaders are able to build a close relationship with their technical counterparts, and then use that relationship to create space for design. Bad design leaders have a neutral relationship with their technical partners (and sometimes an antagonistic one).
Přečtěte si reportáž z prezentace Petera Merholze (@peterme) na našem 2FRESH talku. Zjistěte, jak nezabít duši designu. 👉 https://t.co/UArqZ6xOI8 #UXdesign#designleadership
New research paper on the huge costs of GDPR
But on the positive side, at least we get to opt-in/opt-out of cookie tracking a hundred times every day… 🙃
No need for a coffee - this one's easy.
In this thread, you'll get a solid understanding of inflation and stagflation.
You’ll learn:
• How Fed can cause inflation
• How the growth/inflation relationship can break
• Current stagflation drivers
• Fed's failure to fix it 🧵👇
@JustinPulitzer I don’t know. But You should really read the former study and it’s methodology if you are genuinely interested in what’s really happening. You simply cannot interpret it the way the article does.