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First Thing Monday, edition #144
Rise and shine workers with another edition of First Thing Monday. Here are handful of articles that caught me eye recently.
“It seems like everywhere I go, software is increasingly designed against me.” - CTA Hierarchy in the Wild
I watched an interesting talk by Jenny Wen: Why Designers Can No Longer Trust the Design Process - Not sure I agree entirely, but nonetheless refelcts the current reality of product design.
“An agentic future elevates design into pure strategy, which is what the best designers have wanted all along.” - Jeff Veen : On Coding Agents and the Future of Design.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on imperfection as design strategy : The end of analogue.
The most insane news this week was about Moltbook, the new social network for AI agents. My existential fear subsided after reading this piece, assuring me that ‘Moltbook is basically The Sims’. Thank goodness, no I can go back to worrying about all the other insane news right now.
Josh Clark’s piece, What Happens When Agents Meet?, is somewhat related.
How Product Discovery changes with AI - good insights as always from David Hoang.
And finally, a super interesting article about Illustrating the Gemini App.
Go get ‘em,
Ben