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Diagram comparing human cognitive development with current AI development using Jerome Bruner’s three representational stages. Left: a stable upright pyramid divided into three tiers labeled from base to apex — I. Enactive, Action-Based; II. Iconic, Image-Based; III. Symbolic, Language. Right: an inverted top-heavy funnel showing Current AI Development, with Symbolic — LLMs with Trillions of Tokens — occupying the vast upper section, Iconic — Video and Image — as a narrow uncertain middle layer
10 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 10, 2026

Why safe AGI requires an enactive floor and state-space reversibility

With LLMs, we have built the peak of synthetic cognition without the base — and the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff shows us what that cost...
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Why B2B UX features fail
10 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 10, 2026

Why B2B UX features fail

The one question you always need to keep in mind for B2B projectsContinue reading on UX Collective »
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AI image created by kikehey.com
10 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 10, 2026

Leading design teams is easy, but we made it complicated

Should product design teams be 100% creative, effective, or a middle ground between both? How do you know a product design is succeedin...
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We thought AI feedback was making our designers faster. It was making them shallower
10 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 10, 2026

We thought AI feedback was making our designers faster. It was making them shallower

The designs shipped faster; the designers grew more slowly.Continue reading on UX Collective »
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Sci-fi image of an emperor created by large pixels in the midst of walking. The background shows a faraway scene of a flat platform and the sea, connecting to the blue sky with white clouds and a yellow orb as the sun
10 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 10, 2026

Sycophancy: the emperor’s new clothes

Why AI’s real danger isn’t hallucination — it’s agreement.The conversation about AI risk over the past years revolved around accuracy, ...
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A Pokémon Pokopia scene showing the player character standing in a ruined stone doorway, backlit by a bright blue sky and heading to the exit to begin their exploration.
09 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 9, 2026

The calm and charm of cosy games in a chaotic world

What this gentle genre of design reveals about building digital products for anxious times.At some point in the last few years, million...
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The color statistic that’s been wrong for 80 years
09 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 9, 2026

The color statistic that’s been wrong for 80 years

The estimate everyone repeated and nobody verifiedContinue reading on UX Collective »
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One of the Winchester Mystery House’s staircases — built without a blueprint, leading nowhere. © Getty Images (515427836)
09 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 9, 2026

Stairways to nowhere: why AI makes blueprints matter more than ever

Design principles Vitruvius defined 2,000 years ago are now your most critical AI tool.Too much software today is built like the Winche...
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Product ethics, AI adoption theatre, an architecture that no longer exists
09 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 9, 2026

Product ethics, AI adoption theatre, an architecture that no longer exists

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“In the last week of February 2026, something unusual happened. A sitting ...
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A cute robot
09 Mar
Design & Systems
Posted by author-avatar metadiagram
March 9, 2026

The deceptive side of robot cuteness

And the different kinds of cute design techniques.Photo by
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