Essays & Field Notes on AI, Design, and Building Digital Businesses
Deciding one UI call at a time
Buzz Usborne treats AI product design as practical UI decisions made one at a time. Rob Farmer locks ideas before drawings look good.
Edition #173
Building without understanding
Buzz Usborne shares rules for shipping AI-powered products. Laurie Voss forecasts how agents reshape the development lifecycle.
Edition #172
When system health matters more
Ky Decker at Scribe used team surveys to fix design system adoption and naming. Tailwind Labs joined Shopify while staying open source.
Edition #171

Judgment, not just pages
Edition #170
Culture shapes what AI amplifies
Edition #169
Nobody claps for good
Edition #168
Friction shapes what survives
Edition #167
Conviction over craft
Edition #166
Taste over templates
Edition #165
When design frames problems
Edition #164
Reality before AI, taste before consensus
Edition #163
Design systems are now infrastructure for AI
Edition #162
Building agents that hold their secrets
Edition #161


