#ai-impact-on-design

#ai-impact-on-design

"It would be really hard without this space to make good products, if not impossible," Axelsson says.

Aesthetic inspiration is social and collective, but aesthetic results are deeply personal. What works for one face, skin type, or bone structure won't always work for another.

Opus 4.7 is available across Claude products and its API, with a token cost of $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

If you've signed up for Cursor to do some casual vibecoding, you'll probably find yourself disoriented by the command lines and acronyms that live throughout the software. Lu proposes he can solve this tension with his new project, something he's calling 'Baby Cursor.' Lu imagines Baby Cursor as the next generation of the company's software, which first launched in 2023.

The normative form for interacting with what we think of as "AI" is something like this: there's a chat you type a question you wait for a few seconds you start seeing an answer. you start reading it you read or scan some more tens of seconds longer, while the rest of the response appears you maybe study the response in more detail you respond the loop continues

LLMs have made AI assistants a standard feature across SaaS. AI assistants allow users to instantly retrieve information and interact with a system through text-based prompts. Mathias Biilmann, in his article " Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters," discusses two distinct approaches to building AI assistants. The Closed Approach involves a conversational assistant embedded directly within a single SaaS product. Examples include Zoom's AI Companion, Salesforce CRM's Einstein, and Microsoft's Copilot. The Open Approach involves external conversational assistants, such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini,

In 2026, the designers who thrive won't be the ones who just create beautiful Figma files. They will be the ones who understand structure, logic, systems, interactions, and implementation. FigmaMake generates surprisingly coherent interface layouts that respect design patterns and component logic. It allows us to create coded interactive prototypes in minutes, allowing to test our experiences faster and see our ideas live. The best part - no need to leave Figma.

The question dropped into the Slack channel before the user research summary. Before the problem was clearly defined. Before anyone asked if users actually needed this feature. Your product manager already generated three interface options in ChatGPT. Now they're asking which one to build. Not whether to build. Not why to build. Which. And when you slow the conversation down to ask those questions, you're about to discover that strategic thinking now reads as bottleneck behavior.