First 30/60/90 Days Plan For Product Designers and UX Leads. With checklists, guides and Notion templates to get started in a new role — still relevant in AI world ↓
First 90 Days For Product Designers (+ Notion), by Arturo Ríos
Article: https://lnkd.in/e4eYWfiT
Notion template: https://lnkd.in/eE_-Eg53
90-Day Plan: Design Job Survival Guide (Google Doc checklist), by Niki Tisza
https://lnkd.in/daHkRnqA
Find … Read the rest
Design critique with Claude Design
Most AI design critiques fail for one simple reason: We ask AI to critique everything at once.
Prompting AI “Review this design and tell me what’s wrong” sounds reasonable, but it usually produces a generic mix of accessibility, visual, content, and interaction feedback.
I get much better results with Claude Design by splitting critique into 4 focused passes:
1️⃣ Accessibility … Read the rest
Conversational Design
Conversational Design by Erika Hall is a short, practical book about making digital products feel human instead of robotic.
Conversation is the best model for creating device-independent, human-centered systems. Just adding voice or chat doesn’t make something conversational. The book argues we should design interactions the way humans actually talk.
Get it here
UX Writing vs. Content Design
UX Writing vs. Content Design. How they are different, what responsibilities and deliverables they entail — and the expectations that companies have ↓
In a design / UX team:
✍️ UX WRITERS work in a design team, writing and refining UI copy.
– Their primary focus is on the way the copy looks and sounds.
– Responsible for translating an … Read the rest
Useful Courses
Useful Courses And Workshops For Designers, with video courses, workbooks and certification for UX, design systems, Figma and accessibility ↓
✤ Video Courses and Live UX Trainings
Product Design Masterclass, by Filippos Protogeridis
https://www.designary.com/
Figma + AI Masterclasses, by Christine Vallaure de la Paz
https://lnkd.in/eMfTB2KH
How To Measure UX and Design Impact, by Vitaly Friedman
https://measure-ux.com
Design Patterns For AI … Read the rest
AI in Design Systems
The State of AI in Design Systems (https://lnkd.in/g2tZgRVm), an incredible field study with 150+ techniques across 20 design systems, specifically focused on how design systems implement and distribute AI tooling — MCP server, LLMs.txt, skills, AI docs etc. — for design system contribution and consumption. Wonderful work by Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent.
Useful takeaways:
1. More design system teams now … Read the rest
Decreasing customer churn through UX
Decreasing customer churn through UX requires fixing momentum losses via data backed design approach in optimizing onboarding clarity, accelerating time-to-value, and streamlining navigation paths.
Onboarding and Activation
- Simplify the flow: Reduce initial screens and use progress bars so users quickly reach their first “aha!” moment.
- Remove friction: Cut unnecessary form fields and steps during the first 7
Useful AI Skills And Workflows
Useful AI Skills And Workflows For Designers (https://lnkd.in/d4FRzEFW), a growing Notion hub with ready-made project structures, Claude skills, design tokens pipeline and AI design dictionary. Wonderful little helper, put together and updated by Carmen Rincon.
🔹 1. Useful AI Skills For Designers
Good design needs a good taste and a strong point of view. Designers below have put together their … Read the rest
Making AI Easy at Work
Upgrading Career to AI to Do the Grunt Work
Driving business transformation comes down to one thing: removing the noise so you can focus on the work that matters. But mid-career professionals often hit a wall. It’s rarely a lack of talent. It’s usually a lack of time.
Whether you are managing people services, leading operations, or running a large … Read the rest
AI tools for Designing
Every AI tool has a different superpower.🚀
Once I stopped comparing them and started combining them, my productivity and more importantly, the quality of my thinking improved dramatically.
Here’s the AI stack I’m currently exploring in my design workflow:
🧠 Claude → UX strategy, PRDs, user flows & design critique
💬 ChatGPT → Brainstorming, UX writing & creative exploration
🎨 … Read the rest