For designers building in the AI era
You're navigating the biggest shift in design since the web. Digital Native helps you make the move from tool-user to AI-native, without burning out to keep up.
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Design insights for the AI era.
Hey, it’s Matt.
This week's issue has a lot I'm excited about, including:
- Good design removes, but AI design keeps adding
- Cold email is the connection you've been wanting
- A beautiful grotesk font calibrated for UI grids
- And 7 moreI'm also cooking up a few new projects I'll share here first. One helps you build agentic skills faster and the right way. The other is a fully opinionated UI design system. Both are coming soon.
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