how design gets done in 2026, part 2 / notes from three super senior designers 🕶️

how design gets done in 2026, part 2 / notes from three super senior designers 🕶️

Frank Bach built his own tool and left Figma. Brian Lovin went back to Figma and dialed the AI way down. Dann Petty creative-directs Claude from the canvas / three elite processes, zero overlap, one lesson.

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Ioana from AI Goodies
how designers actually work in 2026 / 30+ AI-infused workflows

how designers actually work in 2026 / 30+ AI-infused workflows

real tools, real prompts, real agent architectures / what my community shared when I asked how they actually work now plus the patterns hiding inside all of it.

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Ioana from AI Goodies
what is a Creative Technologist? / and why is everyone suddenly hiring one?

what is a Creative Technologist? / and why is everyone suddenly hiring one?

this esoteric, mysterious role keeps showing up in job boards, Linkedin bios, and "future of design" threads / here's what it actually is, told through the people living it, and whether we're all becoming one.

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Ioana from AI Goodies
the vibe-coded portfolio / how to build one, 20+ examples, tips + tricks

the vibe-coded portfolio / how to build one, 20+ examples, tips + tricks

Your portfolio used to be a collection of case studies. Now it can be a collection of live URLs. And see, that changes many things about hiring, credibility, and what it means to be a designer. Let's unpack them.

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Ioana from AI Goodies
the Forward Deployed Designer / a new role is emerging

the Forward Deployed Designer / a new role is emerging

designers who embed with teams, go to the problem, and leave behind working software instead of decks / this might be the most exciting new design role since "design engineer."

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Ioana from AI Goodies
design role requirements are evolving / the 2026 Design Job Description

design role requirements are evolving / the 2026 Design Job Description

I went through actual job postings at Anthropic, Vercel, Cursor, Linear, Intercom, Lovable, Stripe, Notion, Perplexity, and OpenAI / here's what they're asking for now that they weren't asking for two years ago.

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Ioana from AI Goodies
designers and PMs: are these roles merging?

designers and PMs: are these roles merging?

AI created a standoff between everyone on the product team 🤺 / here's what's actually happening and why I think it's mostly good news.

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Ioana from AI Goodies
what is a Design Engineer and how do you become one?

what is a Design Engineer and how do you become one?

what does a design engineer do (and why it's the most future-proof role in tech). designers are redefining their identity, job titles are catching up, I'm bringing some clarity to the topic right here 🔦

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Ioana from AI Goodies
Designers are struggling more than they admit (so I wrote a book)

Designers are struggling more than they admit (so I wrote a book)

The book is out, and it explores the skills that matter more than ever for Surviving Design.

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Ioana from AI Goodies
will we still have (design) jobs in the future?

will we still have (design) jobs in the future?

the design role is being fundamentally transformed / here's what it's becoming, what's dying, and what you should do about it.

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Ioana from AI Goodies
skills + traits designers need in 2026

skills + traits designers need in 2026

the design industry has changed. design hiring has changed. have you changed? :)

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🔮 2026 predictions for AI x tech x design

🔮 2026 predictions for AI x tech x design

The year we stop pretending we know what happens next.

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