UX Design Weekly
 

UX Design Weekly

Issue 571

Articles

UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
How to shape your career path for 2026, with decision trees for designers and a UX skills self-assessment matrix.

State of UX in 2026
UX faced instability from layoffs, hiring freezes, and AI hype; now, the field is stabilizing, but differentiation and business impact are vital.

The New Business Case For Design Systems
How to track and communicate the value of your design system.

Cold Storage
Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.

Designers as agent orchestrators: what I learnt shipping with AI in 2025
Designers hold the best qualities to get refine AI outputs that’s needed for building successful products.

AI Enables As-Needed Software Features
AI allows people ton just describe what they want and the app writes the code needed to do it on demand.

Sponsor

Advance your design career with online, self-paced UX courses
Enjoy 3 free months of learning because you're a reader of UX Design Weekly! View over 40 courses from industry experts and top academics.

--
Sponsor a future issue to showcase your product or service.

Tools and Resources

Detail
A collection of small details that make big difference.

Very Good Components
Curated collection of HTML UI components ready to drop into your next project.

Superdesign
Design prompts for style, animation, components.

UX Portfolio

Emmi Wu
Emmi is a student at Penn University who is doing an internship at Perplexity.

Last But Not Least

Celebrating analog in a digital world
The quiet resurgence of making things by hand.

“I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.”
— Scott Adams

Thanks to this issue's sponsor:

Interaction Design Foundation

 
 
 


Sponsor an Issue | Submit a UX Link | Follow @uxdesignweekly | Web Version

You have received this email because you subscribed via the UX Design Weekly site. You can unsubscribe anytime. Curated with ❤ from Southern California.