Sep 3, 2025

Indecision kills momentum Issue 264

• Strategy
  Building Product Sense: Why Your Gut Needs an Education

  A playbook to sharpen your product judgement.

• Leadership
  Product Leadership Archetypes

  Explore the three archetypes of product leadership: craftsperson, operator, and visionary... and which one is right for your organization.

• Artificial intelligence, Design Systems
  Where AI is failing design systems, and where we are failing AI

  On August 21, 2025, Nathan and I facilitated a deep dive discussion into the data we gathered from 95 design system practitioners. We only asked two questions:

• Design Patterns, Process
  Doing (and Directing) Great Design Requires Detail Obsession

  Every great design has one organizing detail that unlocks everything else, and the best design leaders never stop looking for it.

• Design Patterns, Process
  Why designing terrible solutions makes you a better designer

  Applying the anchoring effect to design practice.