THE LATEST DESIGN PROBLEM? GETTING A JOB

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Despite widespread layoffs and a brutal job market, demand for designers is actually rising, especially at high-growth companies that treat design as a competitive edge. The skills now being screened for are product sensibility, the ability to prototype mid-conversation, impeccable craft, and AI fluency. Paradoxically, AI making execution trivially cheap has made taste and judgment scarcer, turning this into a strong moment for designers who can make things matter.