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The weekly read for designers who shape products.
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The new design tool trend | |||||||||||
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When I interviewed Buzz Usborne for last week's issue, we talked about HSDS Studio. It's a prototyping tool Help Scout built for themselves. You give it a prompt or a Figma file, and it builds Help Scout screens from their real components. | |||||||||||
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I've seen a small trend lately. More companies are building their own version: | |||||||||||
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Buzz said the design generators kept producing "the same-looking thing again and again. It was just Tailwind." | |||||||||||
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HSDS Studio runs on their own design system, and now they go from "what if?" to "try this!" in 30 seconds instead of days. | |||||||||||
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Is your team building one? Hit reply, I'd love to see it. | |||||||||||
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All eight design partners who tried the new Dropbox experience chose to keep it turned on. dropbox.tech | |||||||||||
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Figma's latest workflow lab tests ideas with code layers and the Figma agent on the canvas. figma.com | |||||||||||
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Nielsen Norman Group published a definition of the agent harness: the software layer that decides what an AI model can request, what it is allowed to do and what it gets to see. Nielsen Norman Group | |||||||||||
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INT Studio designed Ptyxel, an archive of video poetry from Western Switzerland, with each collection drawn as a book spine that changes width as you filter. Fonts In Use | |||||||||||
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Sanrio's Hello Kitty and Friends are now in Figma and FigJam, as assets and templates. figma.com | |||||||||||
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fontsinuse.com Manuel de sabotage 2.0
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944 | |||||||||||
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On 17 January 1944, the Office of Strategic Services issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, written for the "citizen-saboteur" in enemy or occupied territory. One section covers organizations and conferences: "Insist on doing everything through 'channels.'" "Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done." "When possible, refer all matters to committees, for 'further study and consideration.'" | |||||||||||
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More than 80 years later, the list reads like an ordinary week at work. Now Suzy Canivenc, Marie Ged and Arthur Vinson have updated it for collaborative tools and endless meetings. Bureau Roman Seban designed Manuel de sabotage 2.0, and Fonts In Use says it shows you how to make your organization "even more inefficient than it already is." | |||||||||||
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mean.app Mac app
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Mean is a free Mac app for visual handoff. You freeze or record your screen and annotate it: a click adds a numbered pin, a drag draws an arrow. Then you hand the session to a person or a coding agent. Agents can use it too, from the terminal or any MCP client, to record the screen and check their own work. | |||||||||||
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Mean says it's for "anything where pointing beats describing." It needs macOS 15 or later. | |||||||||||
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Written and edited by Jan Haaland. Published weekly from Norway. | |||||||||||
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