Nate Henry

Designer

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@NoahShreve DM

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@joshpuckett Will you teach the coding part of this in Interface Craft?

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Reminder that some people in tech still think design = how something looks

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY

I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis.

Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant.

Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today.

If you're a designer, I think you have two choices:
1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business.
2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder.

Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.

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how is apple a trillion dollar company but every ios update silences my alarm

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@gregisenberg "agent-native payments"

Is this not an ideal use case for Ethereum?

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@mikethree Cool af!

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@TryNoahAI !

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@budapp Amazing!

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@ayushsoni_io Looks amazing! Can I ask what tool you used to make it?

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@dbabbs build a site with it where homeowners can type in their address and see how much money they could save on energy. then connect them with solar companies for a commission.

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@nurijanian @Shpigford which Traction book? It seems like there are a few with the same title.

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@aliciakatz onboarding the masses (regular people) to crypto

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there has been 10 years of innovation in the past 6 months

[bloomy btw !! 🌸 @yungcontent]

ghostwriter977 already got 250k+ spotify streams on the fake drake ft. weeknd song 😫

UMG in shambles

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@jhLFC @_Nitetime @RealRossU @ck_SNARKs All of that was dropped. If it were true, wouldn’t they prosecute it?

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@drewcoffman the guy in the yellow trying not to laugh at his friend's gasp 💀

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@CWStoneman @Spotify Have tabs for the top 10 tracks, like "All time", "Trending", ect...

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@aliciakatz looks like a painting

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@soren_iverson The darkest pattern

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@charleswilliams @drewcoffman what! one of the best war movies of all time. Definitely rewatch

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@drewcoffman one of my all time faves