Designspun
Roger WongDesignspun is a weekly digest of design, technology, and culture—part blog, part scrapbook, part signal boost.
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AI Discourse, Writing, and Me
I’m tired of the discourse. The more I read about how AI disrupts the way we design and build software, the less I want to read and write about it. (Yes, ironically, this is about AI.)
It’s not that there aren’t interesting things happenin...
Software for Someone
I’ve always been more interested in making something than selling it. Give me something to solve and a sketchbook or blank screen, and I’m happy to spend the next few hours working the problem. It could be a logo, a layout, or a complex wor...
AI Is Learning to Read the Room
Seems like there’s a new, smarter AI model every week. And apparently, the smarter they get, the less handholding they need.
Anthropic removed more than 80 percent of Claude Code’s system prompt while developing its Claude 5-generation mod...
When the Rules Are Wrong
An agent loop gives an AI agent a goal and lets it work. Software checks the result and uses it to decide what the agent should do next. The agent can keep working and correct itself without waiting for a person to write every prompt.
That...
Learning Before Leverage
Like many software startups this year, my company went all-in on Claude Code in February. It was a strategic executive decision that manifested as a coordinated mandate that rolled through all our functional departments one by one. We held...
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Roger Wong is a design leader writing about AI, design leadership, and the future of product design—with over two decades of experience at Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, and BuildOps.
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