Product Design & Development Blog

• Designing for 2026: Process, Agency, and Decision Quality in the Age of AI - Jan 2026Reflections from a design team workshop on how the design process is evolving as AI reshapes the pace and shape of work, with a focus on agency, decision quality, and...
• Dogfooding: The Habit That Builds Better Products - Oct 2025Using your own product might be the single most powerful habit a product team can build. How leaning into dogfooding builds empathy, surfaces friction, and creates a culture of continuous...
• The UI Power Hour: A 60-Minute Ritual For Product Polish - Sep 2025Every two weeks a designer and engineer team up, set a one-hour timer, and hammer through small but meaningful UX or UI updates that often don’t make it into a...
• Empowering Design Agency: How AI is Revolutionizing Early-Stage Prototyping - Apr 2025How AI “vibe coding” tools are putting rapid code-based prototyping power directly into the hands of designers, giving them greater agency in the creative process from the very start.
• The Rise of the Design Engineer - Sep 2024Having a Design Engineer on your team is a game changer. Attention to detail, product quality, and velocity all benefit from this hybrid role that finesses the overlap between design...
• Design Craft & Shipping the Details - Jun 2024Craft & quality in design, or any work you do, is important. Yet most companies are really bad at following through with the details. Here are examples of companies doing...
• How to develop your first Figma plugin for designers - Apr 2024I recently developed my first Figma plugin. It wasn’t hard, and my whole team joined in, exposing us to what is possible with the Figma API. Here’s a quick tutorial…...
• Why & How to Create Design Team Principles - Jan 2024As your design team grows, it’s important to establish a set of design principles. This keeps the team (+ org) aligned across all functions of design. For us that includes...
• How Product Design works with Product Managers and Engineers - Nov 2023When interviewing designers, PMs or engineers, I’ll usually get asked “how do you all work together?”. How does engineering work with PMs? PMs with design? Design with engineering? My response...
• How we Organize Design Files and Cover Pages in Figma - Nov 2023Not everyone on your team knows how to navigate Figma the way you do. Other designers have different methods. Engineers and PMs may not know where to start. This is...