Akta (Pronounced 'Ekta')

At @tryramp, an agent roasts bad UX, then fixes it. Meet Roasty. Today it fixed a small bug, posted a video in the relevant Slack channel, and got a PR reviewed by another agent and merged. But no one warned us that it decided to dress up for halloween... which was an interesting surprise

Great question. My rough framing is that AI has given engineering a 100x boost, product 10x, and design 5x. That imbalance creates real strain: engineers can merge lots of individual changes while the overall UX gets less coherent, and designers burn out trying to keep up. Design is a deep craft. It takes thought and a view of the whole experience. We haven’t given designers tooling that matches how quickly we can now produce code. That’s why we’re building Inspect for designers. The ambition is to give them the 200x boost. Then engineers can be the ones trying to keep up :)

There's been a lot of "design is dead" talk this year. So at @DesignUpConf last week, @rasagy and I built our workshop around a better question: how does a designer actually navigate this landscape? and what value does a designer still bring to the table?

Frantically fixing a confusing product caused by frantic shipping is just more of the same. Pause and step back. Get the team clear on what you’re building and why. Have clarity to guide the shape, what ships and what doesn’t. Quality is a way of working, not a cleanup sprint.