If your Design System only lives in Figma, you don't have a Design System yet. A law book isn't a Constitution. Here are 10 failure points that actually matter once your system hits production.

You cannot show a candidate a bit of software they haven't even touched and expect off-the-cuff improvements. 😅 That isn't UX. That's improv.

UX Is Not Improv Theatre: They Asked Me to Improve Software I Was Seeing for the First Time

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I walked into the interview unusually prepared. Not “I memorised buzzwords and rehearsed fake enthusiasm” prepared. Prepared because this was actually my field. User experience. Systems thinking. Accessibility. Workflow analysis. Information architecture. The messy, complicated, deeply human layer underneath software that most people never even notice until something breaks and suddenly everyone’s a UX critic. […]

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Product design isn’t screens first. It’s a stack of decisions built on knowledge, from real-world context to UI. This piece breaks it down and shows why weak foundations lead to surface-level fixes. https://bit.ly/3Om1uqJ

Career progression isn't a response to AI. The best designers didn't go deeper into design — they stepped outside it entirely. T-shape, wide or narrow, still keeps you inside the function. That's the ceiling. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B1DK5FNRH/

Between 2020-2024, AI hardware boom delivered shiny new toys that are already dead. Companies like Humane and Rabbit did not fail because their technology was slow: they failed because their UX was fundamentally broken.

When UX designers work on something that already exists, these are the best tools that help us do our jobs better.