Field notes on design and AI: what AI speeds up, what it can’t replace, and how design leaders make the shift work.https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/design-laws/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/design-laws/Stop telling AI to 'make it look better.' Each design law here comes with the before, the after, and the exact words to give your AI so it fixes the real problem. Updated with every new episode.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/gpt-6-designs-its-own-answers/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/gpt-6-designs-its-own-answers/ChatGPT's new Intelligent UI turns answers into buttons, forms, charts and small tools. What OpenAI got right is a design system and restraint. The risk is the oldest one in interface design: when everything is loud, nothing is.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/nova-agent-test/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/nova-agent-test/I handed a fresh AI coding agent the Nova design system and one prompt. It followed the color rules perfectly and still exposed five gaps in the system. Here's what I changed, and what happened when a second agent tried again.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/count-the-audience/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/count-the-audience/"Only staff can see it" sounded safe until I counted: staff was 17 of 31 people. Permissions in plain English, the bugs that taught me, and the habits (with prompts) that catch them early.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/nobody-tells-you-when-it-breaks/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/nobody-tells-you-when-it-breaks/My walking game sat on the App Store doing nothing for weeks, and nothing told me. Here's why AI-built apps fail quietly, and the five habits I use so I hear about it first.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/what-leaves-your-app/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/what-leaves-your-app/My automated tests cleaned up perfectly and reported green. They'd also been sending notifications to real people's phones for months. On emails, pushes and payments: the part of your app you can't undo.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/when-the-ai-says-its-fixed/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/when-the-ai-says-its-fixed/The most expensive word in AI-assisted building is "fixed." Here's why it's so often wrong, the loop it traps people in, and the seven habits (with prompts) I use to get out.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/from-prototype-to-product/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/from-prototype-to-product/AI can make something that looks finished in an afternoon. Getting from that prototype to software real people rely on is a different story, and it's one designers can learn to tell.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/the-hopeful-case-for-designers/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/the-hopeful-case-for-designers/A lot of designers are bracing for AI to take their jobs. From leading a design team and building my own products with AI agents, I see something different: anyone can make things now, but making them good is still rare, and the job is getting bigger. Here's what's changing, what stays ours, and what to watch out for.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/what-my-design-skills-were-for/https://andrewadamsdesigns.com/writing/what-my-design-skills-were-for/AI agents wrote the code. The design work didn't go away; it moved. What I learned shipping 43 test builds of an app real people use every week.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT