Design Thinker
John RubinoDesign Thinker is for UX designers, product thinkers, and builders who want to explore how great products are made. Whether you're transitioning into design, already in the field, or just love problem-solving through design thinking, this is for you.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 48 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Claude Design Just Dropped. Here’s What Designers Actually Need to Know.
Fernand Léger, The City (1919)
It’s called Claude Design — and it’s not just Claude with a paint bucket tool bolted on. It’s a full creative environment where you collaborate with Claude to produce designs, prototypes, decks, one-pagers, a...
I Don’t Know What’s Coming. But I Know Where I’m Looking.
On Dario Amodei, honest thinking, and finding a signal worth trusting
I’ll be honest with you. There are days I don’t know what to make of any of this.
I spend most of my life working at the intersection of design and AI. I think about it...
I Asked AI to Forecast Its Own Future. Here’s What It Revealed.
A few weeks ago, I found myself in a rabbit hole with Claude.
It started with a simple question I’d been sitting with:
Is AI going to be a tool we pick up and put down, or is it going to become something more permanent — woven into our...
From Pixel Pusher to Orchestrator
Generate by Gemini
There’s a skill emerging that nobody is formally teaching yet — and it might be the most important one for the next decade of work.
It’s not coding. It’s not design. It’s not even prompt engineering. It’s…well, you can...
I Ran a Study on How Engineers Actually Use Figma Dev Mode. Here’s What They Told Me.
Generated by Gemini
TLDR: I ran an internal research study at a large financial institution asking engineering teams — developers, tech leads, QE, and Scrum leads — how they really experience the design handoff process in Figma, particul...
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Product designer and investor. I write about AI, the future of design work, what I’m building along the way, and my journey toward startup investing.
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