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Join us at Casa do Impacto and work alongside other designers from our community every second Friday. Besides providing you with office space, we'll also host in-person mentoring sessions with senior designers and past speakers throughout the day. luma.com/uxqykfbj

And today, I also published another smaller one with just some tips on how I use @cursor_ai to turn a Linear ticket into a GitLab PR: @mariamargarida/how-i-use-cursor-to-turn-a-linear-ticket-into-a-gitlab-pr-33cca82db3f0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@mariamargarid…

Discover how to submit your idea for #LisbonAIWeek 🔛 Submit your idea and complete the application form. We’d love to hear it, and if it’s a match, we’ll be in touch! 🚀 Join us in shaping the future of #AI: lisbonaiweek.com/call-for-events

Even though there are many factors playing a role in the price difference (like switching costs), Spotify seems to benefit from brand loyalty even though they are competing with a branding powerhouse.

enter a situation that resembles perfectly elastic demand (when the price of a good increases, demand drops significantly because people flock to the alternative). In 🇵🇹 Portugal, Spotify currently charges around €8.99 for their individual plan. Apple Music charges €7.49.

AI is lowering barriers to entry and destroying a lot of the moats some companies used to have. @paulg most recent essay on branding, 'The Brand Age' is a read we think is worth your time: paulgraham.com/brandage.html

Now, finding openings that are based on your interests is a little bit easier. This is a small improvement, but I hope it can be useful to anyone who's currently looking for a job in ux research or product design. 🔍 Give it a try: lisboaux.com/jobs

My biggest takeaways from @jenny_wen (design lead at @AnthropicAI): 1. The traditional design process is breaking down. The classic discover-diverge-converge loop that designers have relied on for years doesn’t work when engineers can spin up seven coding agents and ship a working version before a designer finishes exploring options. 2. Design work is splitting into two distinct modes. The first is supporting execution: consulting with engineers as they build, giving feedback, polishing in code. The second is setting short-range vision, now scoped to three to six months instead of multi-year roadmaps. The vision work is still critical because when everyone can build anything fast, someone needs to point the team in a coherent direction. 3. Build trust through speed, not perfection. Anthropic ships products early, labels them research previews, and then iterates publicly based on real feedback. Jenny argues that what actually degrades a brand isn’t launching something rough; it’s launching something rough and then going silent. If you ship fast, respond to feedback visibly, and keep improving, users will trust you more, not less. 4. The most overlooked hire in design right now is the cracked new grad. Most companies are hiring senior designers with deep experience. Jenny argues that early-career people with blank slates, fast learning curves, and no attachment to legacy processes may be uniquely suited to this moment. They don’t carry baked-in rituals that are now obsolete, and their lack of expectations can actually be an advantage. 5. Chat as an interface isn’t going away. Despite expectations that chatbots were a temporary stop on the way to richer UIs, Jenny sees chat as a permanently valuable interface because it offers infinite flexibility. But she expects a hybrid future where models increasingly generate UI elements on the fly for specific tasks (like the interactive widgets Claude recently shipped) while chat remains the connective tissue between them. 6. Jenny went from design director (12 to 15 reports) back to IC. She questioned whether middle management had a safe future and wanted hands-on time during a period of rapid change. The IC time is giving her hard skills she wouldn’t have gained while managing. 7. AI will likely get better at taste and judgment. Jenny says designers may be holding onto “taste” as a moat too tightly. But someone still has to be accountable for what ships, the same way an engineer is accountable for AI-generated code. 8. Hire three archetypes: strong generalists, deep specialists, and “cracked new grads.” Strong generalists are “block-shaped” (80th percentile across multiple skills). Deep specialists are top 10% in one area. Cracked new grads—the most overlooked—have no baked-in processes and learn new tools fastest. 9. Figma is still essential, but for different reasons than before. Jenny says Figma remains the best tool for rapidly exploring 8 to 10 different design directions on a canvas, something that coding tools handle poorly because they’re too linear and create investment bias toward one direction. For micro-level visual and interaction decisions, spatial exploration still beats sequential iteration. 10. Low-leverage work is often the highest-leverage thing a manager can do. Jenny pushes back on the conventional management advice to ruthlessly prioritize only high-leverage tasks. She points to leaders who obsessively dogfood the product, repro bugs, and personally fix small issues—activities that seem “below” a senior leader but create deep product familiarity, set a cultural tone of care, and earn trust from the team in ways that strategic planning never can. Watch our full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=eh8bcB…

One month ago, we launched a job board for Product Designers and UX Researchers at @LisboaUX. Now, we're introducing a personal feed based on your preferences and work experience, and "Jobs for You" — an email with jobs that match your needs and that are tailored just for you.

@paper blog is here! We explore retro print aesthetics with our new HalftoneCMYK shader. I break down the tech tricks behind it, and @agusegui shows how to use it Plenty of interactive illustrations (and plenty of banana pictures). Enjoy! read: paper.design/blog/retro-pri… paper app: app.paper.design shader docs: shaders.paper.design/halftone-cmyk

Have you been positively impacted by Isabel? Let us know your story below 👇 Over the month we'll share more stories celebrating Isabel, along with the video from her talk about designing culture at LisboaUX 🤩

Our Person Of The Year is Isabel Novais Machado. Her contribution to our community and to the UX design community at large has been extraordinary. Thank you Isabel for being a friend and a mentor, and for helping so many people behind the scenes.

Introducing detail.design. I've been collecting small details for months, and now I want to share them with you. Separate your product from good to great with these details. This is an endless collection, I'm keeping curating it. 🍺 Cheer the taste.

Our monthly Co-working Days for Designers are back! And from now onwards, they'll start taking place every 2 weeks, starting this Friday: luma.com/4jroge8w

Introducing Mobbin for Animations bit.ly/uxc-mob1 #ad #UX

How might AI transform the way teams conduct user research? Watch Tiago Pombeiro talk about how the Maze AI Moderator can autonomously run and analyse interviews while keeping researchers in control of quality and insight. 👉 Watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/AW10uQ23F8Y

so... I'm available for governance design work! Looking for: - DAO Governance roles - Professional delegate positions - Building DAO tools If you know someone designing a DAO or building DAO governance infrastructure and tools, I'd appreciate an intro. DMs open. Thank you!

Over the last year, Carlos Resende, Afonso Gonçalves and I have been building a digital publication focused on everything related to startups in Portugal. Every week, we publish a weekly overview that gives you news about our startups, alongside a curated selection of events and resources worth knowing about. Recently, we started borrowing knowledge from guest authors like Fernando Fraga, Andre Marquet and João Silva from @StartupPortugal to bring you different perspectives and to keep you informed on industries we're not experts in. Next year, we'll keep working to keep you informed and to become a go-to place for learning about Portuguese Startups and opportunities for growth, while raising the standard for what we publish. Thank you for trusting us! adamastor.blog