@mariusz.cc
Product / Service / UX Design, Leadership, Ethics, Yelling at clouds. ⚡️ Languages. ⚡️ Taking photos. ⚡️ Screamy music ⚡️ Often seen dumping links to what I read. 🔴⚫️ I don’t know what HD is but my doctor says I have eighty of them.
Whether people are using agentic products for coding, data analysis, or writing, some users find the agent's work overwhelming and want the interface to focus purely on results. Others say seeing that work is essential for monitoring and checking what the agent is doing.
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Making space for these five straightforward questions introduces evidence early. The answers to them can provide a simple checkpoint between “I think” and “I know” that helps determine whether a product idea is well supported and likely to succeed.
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ACAB includes Proton btw
Screenshot of The Guardian with the top 42% taken up by some car ad and the bottom 42% by another ad from the newspaper asking for money.
Web design in 2026 leaving a small gap where you can just about read the headline
Yeah I get why people use ChatGPT to replace Google too because Google is just garbage results for first 10 pages lol
The fundamental problem with design docs is the same one that killed waterfall: you have the least information at the beginning of a project, which is exactly when design docs ask you to make the most decisions.
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Democratizing access to design tools is genuinely good. I believe that. The problem is the assumption that because someone can produce a thing that looks like a designed product, they’ve done the work of design.
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So as I wrap up my role at LILT I am now officially on the market.
Looking for Senior/Staff or Lead Designer role on a team that solves an interesting problem and cares deeply about their users, preferably remote-first.
work.mariusz.cc
#ProductDesign
Aw yis, that's what I've been looking for. Thanks.
Is anyone exploring layouts and components as data in design systems? I feel like we have Design Tokens basically solved with DTCG JSON and maybe it's worth looking a layer higher for a neutral notation of components that would be then converted to whatever tool needs them.
Bing makes enough money being an API for all the “private” search engines that feed your data to Microslop
I didn’t know Microslop was a thing until I saw headlines about Microsoft trying to ban Microslop on its Discord. Now I shall say Microslop a lot. That’s how it works.
It’s good when Microsoft, a company that likes genocide and environmental destruction, doesn’t like things.
The hidden cost of AI prototypes is that they can’t move forward. And when the underlying output is treated as “disposable” automatically, product teams pay for it later in the product lifecycle through translation work, rewrites, and reduced speed.
uxdesign.cc/the-hidden-c...
The real power of a design system comes from its foundations. Elements like tokens, spacing logic, typography scales, semantic naming, and layout principles do much more heavy lifting than the visible components ever could.
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#DesignSystems #ProductDesign
Prompting is lossy. You can describe what you want in a hundred different ways and still lose the nuance. A well-structured Figma frame is a high-fidelity specification. It carries more signal in one frame than a paragraph of instructions ever could.
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“The problem is that producing was never the hard part. Thinking was the hard part. Making good decisions was the hard part. AI doesn’t do that for you. It just gives you a pile of “done” that isn’t.”
You wouldn't adopt a new approach or tool without being sure it had a positive outcome for your work. AI is no different, and it doesn't get a free pass just because the discourse is louder.
www.mynameismartin.co.uk/blog/how-im-...
#ai #productdesign
With agentic AI coding, the IC-level product manager is about to profoundly change again.
If you can describe/iterate to what you want built, you can build it without waiting for someone to translate your intent. The prompt is the spec.
world.hey.com/cpinto/produ...
#ai #productmanagement
That’s a great tagline Andy.
“Context is everything for an LLM - when every layer of abstraction introduces loss of context, the ability to string tools together and self-correct course washes away.”
posthog.com/blog/8-learn...
#ai #llm
If you’re a designer looking to get into Claude Code, this is one of those guides that you probably need to read if you want to be more efficient.
nervegna.substack.com/p/claude-cod...
#ai #ux #claudecode
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
Most mainstream social media these days is just bots talking to bots and people using bots to produce everything because ultimately posting is a low perceived value activity to get exposure.
In short, Dead Internet Theory is no longer a theory.
Today’s UX research and product leaders can look to accessibility as a blueprint for sustainable, human-centered design innovation.
makeitfable.com/article/acce...
What's below the waterline doesn't improve with time. It doesn't get solved by better strategy documents or new OKR frameworks. It gets solved when someone with authority is willing to name it and create space for the team to work through it together.
leaveamark.xyz/resources/ab...
Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology.
Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
The AI delegation matrix: what parts of your UI shouldn’t exist?
uxdesign.cc/the-ai-deleg...
You review a design and think, “This works, but it does not feel like us.” You catch a small inconsistency that no one else noticed, yet you know it will cause confusion later. This is stewardship.
chadsnewsletter.substack.com/p/craft-stew...
Filters, facets, and guided options reduce memory load and make work tools more usable.
uxdesign.cc/are-we-doing...
