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The Design System Is Perfect. So Why Is Everyone Working Around It?

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:37:32 +0000

Patternhaus founder Laura Martínez argues that the real test of a design system is not component quality but whether teams can collaborate, make decisions and adopt it without friction. AI makes that distinction more urgent.

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Sangeeta Parakala: Why Human-in-the-Loop AI Can Still Be Powerless

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:38:37 +0000

Sangeeta Parakala draws on healthcare and enterprise design to explain why AI approval steps can leave people powerless, and how risk-based oversight, actionable uncertainty and bounded autonomy can restore meaningful human control.

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Catt Small: The Staff Designer’s Real Job Isn’t More Screens

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:36:57 +0000

Catt Small, author of The Staff Designer, explains why senior design leadership depends on judgment, organizational influence and work that rarely appears in a portfolio. Her responses reveal what changes when AI makes execution cheaper.

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The Distance Between Idea and Evidence: Zhengyang Yang on the End-to-End AI Product Designer

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:07:58 +0000

Zhengyang Yang argues that AI is not creating a lone designer who replaces a product team. It is expanding how far designers can move from an ambiguous idea to working evidence, making judgment, systems thinking and collaboration more important.

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The Interview Survives: Brendan Jarvis on What AI Still Cannot See

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:08:58 +0000

Brendan Jarvis on synthetic users, AI-moderated research, the danger of plausible findings, and why real interviews may become less routine but more valuable.

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The Bicycle and the Algorithm: Amber Case on Why AI Has It Backwards

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:24:50 +0000

There is a word Amber Case refuses to use. It appears constantly in the vocabulary of technology design right now, on conference slides and in product briefs and in the manifestos of well-meaning startups. The word is “invisible.” As in: the best technology is the technology you cannot see. Case, who has spent the better […]

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