Secure Code Supply Chains and Sandboxing I’ve been reading up on news from the past day and it looks like the importance of security in our digital workflows has never been clearer. One notable incident came from Axios—a widely used package manager component with 100M weekly installs was recently compromised due to a hijacked GitHub account (source here). This got...
AI in 2026: What Benchmarks Reveal, and How Designers Can Actually Use It
AI Benchmarks: A Reality Check for Frontier Models This morning I was reading about ARC’s newest AGI test, ARC-AGI-3, and couldn’t help but marvel at how even the top AI models are still struggling. For any UX or product designer, this really hits home: even when tech seems to be at the forefront, there’s always room for improvement (and a...
Designing Smarter Chatbots, Stronger Microcopy, and Better AI Editing—What I Learned
Revamping AI Chatbots for Better Engagement Recently, I came across some intriguing insights about AI chatbots that really got me thinking about how we design interactions. According to an article by Maria Rosala, Georgia Kenderova, and Tanner Kohler (What Is Your Site’s AI Chatbot for?), many AI chatbots are missing the mark. They argue that poor placement and vague value...
Design Isn’t Dead—It’s Evolving (Faster, Smarter, and Rooted in Better Research)
The Design Process: Compressed but Very Much Alive I’ve been mulling over the classic debate: is the design process dead? After browsing through recent insights from NN/g – specifically, the article “Design Process Isn’t Dead, It’s Compressed” – I realised that the idea of a dying design process is simply a myth. Experienced designers aren’t abandoning the process; instead, they’re...