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Character.AI Bankruptcy: When Engagement Is Not EnoughAI

Character.AI Bankruptcy: When Engagement Is Not Enough

Character.AI attracted millions of users, yet struggled to build a sustainable business. What its bankruptcy reveals about engagement, product design, and the future of AI companions.
5 min
Figma Is Bringing Design, Code, and Context TogetherAIDesign

Figma Is Bringing Design, Code, and Context Together

Figma's latest updates bring design, code, and AI closer together. A look at Code Layers, Specs, design systems, and what this shift means for product design.
3 min
Illustration of an Audi Q5 with an Opportunity Rating of 85/100, indicating strong trading potential.
Building an AI Decision System for Car AuctionsAIIdeas

Building an AI Decision System for Car Auctions

How I turned the process of evaluating auction vehicles into a structured decision system combining AI, market data, risk, tax, liquidity and financial modelling.
20 min
Design system interface with reusable UI components, typography, color palettes, and behavioral patterns.
Design Systems as Behavioral InfrastructureDesign

Design Systems as Behavioral Infrastructure

Design systems are excellent at standardizing what products look like. As products become more adaptive and AI-enabled, they also need shared principles for how products act, explain decisions, request permission, communicate uncertainty, and return control to users.
9 min
How AI Prototyping Is Changing Product DesignDesign

How AI Prototyping Is Changing Product Design

As prototyping becomes more capable, designers can move from representing software to exploring its behavior directly. The important shift is not faster output. It is a shorter distance between an idea and the reality of the product.
8 min
Design Judgment in the Age of AIIdeas

Design Judgment in the Age of AI

AI is reducing the cost of producing design output. That does not reduce the value of design. It moves the bottleneck toward judgment: framing the problem, choosing what matters, evaluating tradeoffs, and knowing what not to make.
9 min
TopHap desktop platform presented on a laptop with a circular sequence of product, marketing, and interface visuals representing the evolution of the real estate intelligence ecosystem.
Complexity Is Not the Enemy of Good UXDesign

Complexity Is Not the Enemy of Good UX

Complex products do not become good by hiding everything that is difficult. Good UX preserves the depth users need while creating enough structure, hierarchy, and context to make that complexity understandable.
6 min
Designing AI Products Beyond the Chat InterfaceIdeas

Designing AI Products Beyond the Chat Interface

Chat is a useful starting point for AI, but it should not define the product. The bigger opportunity is to design how intelligence changes product behavior: what the system notices, suggests, explains, creates, and does.
6 min