LatestAI · Mar 2026
Designing for LLMs: The Shift from GUI to CUI
As conversational interfaces replace traditional GUIs, the role of a product designer evolves. Here is what that actually looks like in practice.
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Notes from the work.
On designing for the field, systems at national scale, and what AI changes about the job.
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Design · 14 min read
Why AI Won't Replace Senior Product Designers Yet
AI can generate pixels, but it cannot navigate the organisational complexity of building products at scale. Here is why craft still matters.
Systems · 15 min read
Building Design Systems for 1.4 Billion People
Lessons from architecting the design language at Digital India Corporation, where a single misaligned button could affect millions of transactions.
Design · 11 min read
Friction is a Feature: Rethinking Onboarding for Bharat
When your users are first-time smartphone owners in tier-3 India, "seamless" is not always the answer. A case for intentional friction in UX.
AI · 10 min read
Multimodal AI and the Death of the Search Bar
Voice, vision, and gesture are converging. How should we design interfaces when the input modality is no longer predictable?
Craft · 11 min read
What Filmmaking Taught Me About Product Design
Composition, pacing, emotional arcs. The toolkit of a director maps surprisingly well onto user experience design.