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CTRL+ Design

Helping product designers stay sharp, relevant, and collaborative in the age of AI. Every Friday CTRL+Design curates essential news, tools, and insights at the intersection of artificial intelligence, design, and product strategy.

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This week’s UXD <> AI round up: training AI on accessibility, sketch-to-UI tools, and an important question for high-stakes features

This week’s UXD <> AI round up: training AI on accessibility, sketch-to-UI tools, and an important question for high-stakes features

Plus: SHIFT Bootcamp is coming, learn to lead with clarity in just 3 days for 60 min a day.

Linda Ward
Linda Ward
Designing the future on our terms or theirs?

Designing the future on our terms or theirs?

When design tools start talking about EMG, uploading consciousness, and the future of creative labor

Linda Ward
Linda Ward
UK's push to copyright AI training data, ghost artists, and a prompt to keep UXDers grounded

UK's push to copyright AI training data, ghost artists, and a prompt to keep UXDers grounded

This week's good, the bad and the ugly. What UX designers need to know about new laws, layoffs, leadership shifts.

Linda Ward
Linda Ward
AI is improving UX says a report, govt icons go with AI designer, & Figma goes AI

AI is improving UX says a report, govt icons go with AI designer, & Figma goes AI

1,500 AI-generated government icons, a report on how AI is reshaping design workflows, and Figma demos massive AI-powered features

Linda Ward
Linda Ward
Figma’s trademark drama, synthetic users, and smarter AI tools

Figma’s trademark drama, synthetic users, and smarter AI tools

Designing for trust, storytelling shortcuts, and why fake users are fake news.

Linda Ward
Linda Ward