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Signal Transmission #10

Read Starting a business is an ego death for designers
Starting a business is an ego death for designers

Starting a business is an ego death for designers

When you’re employed, it’s easy to blame PMs who “don’t listen to designers”, the company for not being “design-driven”, and executives for not giving you a seat at the table. When you start a business, all of that disappears. All these obstacles, real or imaginary, are gone. You probably think this is when you finally feel unchained and reach the design nirvana.

SubstackArtiom Dashinsky

Read Leading design teams is easy, but we made it complicated
Leading design teams is easy, but we made it complicated

Leading design teams is easy, but we made it complicated

UX CollectiveKike Peña

Read The next five years of product design
The next five years of product design

The next five years of product design

design Weekly InsightsBalint Bogdan

Read The Designer's Essential Skills for Claude Code: Your Installation Checklist
The Designer's Essential Skills for Claude Code: Your Installation Checklist

The Designer's Essential Skills for Claude Code: Your Installation Checklist

Sorted PixelsTommaso Nervegna

Read AI Is Reshaping the Keyboard
AI Is Reshaping the Keyboard

AI Is Reshaping the Keyboard

digestible UXYoung Kim & Jieul Jang

Read I Built 63 Design Skills For Claude - and They're Free
I Built 63 Design Skills For Claude - and They're Free

I Built 63 Design Skills For Claude - and They're Free

MC Dean percolatesMC Dean

Read Luis Ouriach - How are design systems changing?
Luis Ouriach - How are design systems changing?

Luis Ouriach - How are design systems changing?

Dive ClubMichael Riddering & Luis Ouriach

Signal Transmission #9

Read Product Designers Are Not Being Replaced. They Are Being Sorted.
Product Designers Are Not Being Replaced. They Are Being Sorted.

Product Designers Are Not Being Replaced. They Are Being Sorted.

The question was never whether AI replaces you. The question is which side of the split you end up on.

BootcampMuhammad Dani Asyrofi

Read Minimalism Is Overused and Often Misunderstood
Minimalism Is Overused and Often Misunderstood

Minimalism Is Overused and Often Misunderstood

MediumMohit Phogat

Read Forward deployed designer
Forward deployed designer

Forward deployed designer

Proof of ConceptDavid Hoang

Read How to get your design system into Figma Make
How to get your design system into Figma Make

How to get your design system into Figma Make

MediumLuke Finch

Read The 2026 shortlist: 11 design trends that are about to go mainstream
The 2026 shortlist: 11 design trends that are about to go mainstream

The 2026 shortlist: 11 design trends that are about to go mainstream

Zalando DesignZalando Product Design

Read This is how I use AI for Design Systems at Monday.com
This is how I use AI for Design Systems at Monday.com

This is how I use AI for Design Systems at Monday.com

Sneak PeekJayneil Dalal & Elad Mizrahi

Read The Design-Dev Handoff Is Dead. Here’s What Killed It.
The Design-Dev Handoff Is Dead. Here’s What Killed It.

The Design-Dev Handoff Is Dead. Here’s What Killed It.

MediumJonathan Ezell