AI & Design
AI tools for product designers in 2026: a map by workflow stage
The AI tools product designers use in 2026, organised by job: exploring, designing, building, checking and carrying context. What each does, and its limits.
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Why AI-generated interfaces look the way they do, and how creative direction changes the result.
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How to build a design inspiration library your AI agents can use
Most inspiration libraries are built for browsing, not retrieval. How to collect, annotate, tag and organise references so you and your AI agents can find the right ones.
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What is design taste? A working definition for AI-generated interfaces
Design taste is consistent judgement about what fits a purpose. A working definition, what taste is made of, why AI interfaces lack it and what can be written down.
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AI design agents vs traditional design tools: where each fits
AI design agents and coding agents are fast at producing options; traditional design tools are precise and shared. A comparison by task, and how to combine them.
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- AI & Design
How to explore multiple UI design directions with Claude Code
Generate three deliberately different UI directions with Claude Code, keep requirements fixed, compare them fairly and combine the strongest decisions.
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Why AI-generated interfaces look generic (and how to fix them)
AI coding agents default to the most common patterns: purple gradients, Inter, centred heroes and card grids. Why it happens and the specific fixes that work.
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How to give AI coding agents better design taste
AI coding agents default to the average. Creative direction, made of references, preferences and constraints, is how you give Claude Code, Codex and Cursor your taste.
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Design references vs design systems: what AI agents need
References show intent; a design system sets the rules. Why AI coding agents need both, when to use each, how they work together and what happens when they conflict.
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Better design starts with better context.
Give your AI coding agents access to your design taste, references and preferences.