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Short essays on accessibility, design systems, AI, and making design and development work as one, plus a monthly AI and design digest.
The bottleneck moved to deciding what to build
AI made building cheap and teams smaller. The queue now sits on what to build and why. Speeding up the wrong stage just piles up unvalidated features.
The accordion effect: design roles are collapsing
Design roles multiplied for decades because changing UI late was expensive. Components and AI collapsed that cost of change, but not the cost of being wrong about users, information architecture, accessibility, or compliance. A practical take on which process stages to drop and which to keep in 2026.
AI & Design Digest: September 2026
Agents got write access to design systems, and Europe raised the accessibility bar. My picks on what matters for design systems, enterprise UX, and accessibility.
Before the meter starts: audit your team’s AI design workflow for Figma’s paid agent
Figma’s design agent leaves beta on October 6 and starts spending AI credits. A practical guide to deciding what to delegate, forecasting credit use from beta data, and governing internal generative plugins as design-system assets.