PRODUCT DESIGN IS CHANGING

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

AI is fundamentally reshaping product design by changing processes and bottlenecks rather than simply replacing jobs, shifting value away from pixel-level execution toward taste, judgment, and orchestration. As engineering and other “invisible” work become easier to automate, the real constraints become human evaluation and decision-making, with designers increasingly working directly in code through machine-readable design systems, enabling smaller, empowered teams to move faster and giving those who can effectively direct AI workflows far greater leverage than those relying on traditional mockup-to-handoff models.