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Ioana at AI Goodies maps 2026 design workflows into five layers

Designers have lowered the cost of proposing AI solutions, not judging them.

24 Aug 2026ai goodies ✨
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Blind study finds AI prototypes usable but rated less original

92 participants rated AI and human prototypes blind; usability scored well, originality scored neutral or negative.

24 Aug 2026Karoline Romero et al. · arXiv.org
AI & Design

RGD updates its Code of Ethics with new rules on AI disclosure

RGD now requires designers to disclose AI use and keep an AI policy under its updated Code of Ethics.

24 Aug 2026RGD
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Designer Fund: Linear caps AI design work at 20-30%, not maximizing it

Linear designer Isha Kumar limits AI to about 20-30% of new design work after it degraded her process, per Designer Fund.

24 Aug 2026Designer Fund
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Figma's own survey finds designers value polish over the craft it says matters

Despite Figma's push on AI-era craft, 58% of the 906 surveyed designers still equate craft with visual polish, not deeper qualities.

20 Aug 2026Figma
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Zylos research says chat UIs can't handle multi-step AI agents

Zylos cites Augment Code data showing agent sessions without live progress panels had triple the abandonment rate, even with matching output quality.

20 Aug 2026Zylos
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AI Goodies gathers 30 designers' 2026 workflows, and the friction behind them

Ioana's roundup of 30+ designers finds a five-layer workflow shift, but Cem Kurtaraner warns AI prototypes now outpace teams' ability to judge them.

20 Aug 2026ai goodies ✨
AI & Design

Sierra's designers automate infrastructure, hand-draw the mascot

At Sierra, designers Wayne Fan and Nick Hiotis hand-drew a Ghostwriter ghost icon on a 16-by-16 grid rather than generate it.

20 Aug 2026AI in Design Report 2026
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Figma's MCP server puts AI agents inside the canvas

Figma's Dev Mode MCP server can convert live HTML from a running app back into editable Figma layers, reversing the usual export-to-code flow.

19 Aug 2026DEV Community
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Designer Fund survey: designers ship more AI code but collaborate less

Weekly AI use among designers jumped from 54% to 91% in a year, while reported collaboration decline quadrupled from 5% to 20%.

19 Aug 2026Designer Fund
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Itamar Medeiros: Taste, not execution, is the new bottleneck for agentic teams

Medeiros defines taste via Hume, Bourdieu and sensitivity research, then argues encoded preferences are 'living hypotheses' requiring ongoing audits, not fixed defaults.

19 Aug 2026Itamar Medeiros · { design@tive } information design
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NN/g says product sense needs a feedback loop, not empathy and vibes

NN/g argues product sense forms only by completing full decide-ship-measure-reflect loops, not by studying teardowns, unlike Jules Walter's empathy-based definition.

5 Aug 2026Tanner Kohler · Nielsen Norman Group