Designers & Researchers Are Hurting, a Real SimCity, and the Open-Sourced Figma Rival Hey Reader, The air is crisp with the sound of the job market falling all around. Let's start with the bad news and then play with some toys. Sound good? PMs are winning, while designers and researchers are not from Lenny's Newsletter I always watch Lenny's Newsletter for the data and job market posts because they are very thorough (even if they're always a bit too U.S. focused). In his latest post, State of...

A Font that AI Can't Read, Getty Goes Bankrupt, and a New Job for Journey Maps Dear Reader, Happy Halloween! I've got you a full sack of newsletter treats for you and the product team so let's jump right into it. Here's what you need to know about the last two weeks in the tech/product/design world... A font that hides words from AI Source Eric Lu's new Decoy Font is a typeface that (for now) allows you to hide things from AI. It's an old trick called Hybrid Image where each letter has two...

Design's Obituary, the Shielding Problem, and the Future of Human Computing? Dear Reader, Halloween is around the corner, and some people are already carving R.I.P. on design's tombstone. Before you start looking for a black suit, get caught up on the last two weeks. Buckle up, there's going to be some ups and downs! Will design be the first AI casualty? Created with FLUX.1 Krea [dev] Figma Investor Gokul Rajaram posted "DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY" on X, and it's up to 767K views. He...