A product design and leadership newsletter by the authors of a book on why design is hard in organizations, focusing on relationships, cross-functional teams and moving beyond artifact-focused work. Issues mix short essay-style reflections with promotional notes about podcasts and the book.
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A roughly monthly long-form newsletter by Scott Belsky that explores the second-order implications of AI, technology shifts, culture and product design rather than covering news. Each edition offers forecasts on topics such as AI agents, enterprise software, brand moats and building product teams.
First-person stories from two early Slack insiders about building the company, product and business, including the redesign, the pandemic rollout and the Salesforce deal. Readers get behind-the-scenes accounts of product and leadership decisions.
A two-person team building a private, small-group social network called the nook, documenting design decisions like group size limits, passwordless passkey login, and why they want a shared place rather than a feed. Readers get candid engineering reasoning and product philosophy behind a privacy-focused alternative to mainstream social apps.
Each issue distills key AI design and prototyping tactics from an interview with a designer at a well-known product company such as Granola, Deel or Pocket FM. Readers get concrete workflows and tool combinations, with a link to the full video interview.
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