Mark Tegethoff
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Mark Tegethoff
@marktegethoff
📷’s and 👨🏻💻 and ⚾️ 🏒 🏈 🏀 ⚽️, but mostly 📸



DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.





Said this last season but the FA Cup ball is so odd, bouncing and spinning all over the place. Difficult to get it under control.



4/ Design roles have plateaued Unlike PM and engineering, open design jobs have been relatively flat since early 2023, and there are also fewer of these roles than PMs and engineers in absolute terms (about 5,700 globally).





Cursorデザイナーさんが「勉強するなら本を読め」と講演されたとのこと。 すごく共感ですし、合わせてCursorの設計思想が > Cursorは「自動コード生成ツール」ではなくプログラミング学習者のパートナーだと考えているということ。 とのことで、あー、私がCursorが好きな理由がここに詰まっているんだなぁと思った。「AIがあればコード書かなくていいぜー!」じゃないのよ、AIと一緒に書けたら楽しいのよ。これを浸透させていきたい。 Cursorデザイン責任者に聞いた「AI時代の勉強法」。答えは「本を読め」|shohei zenn.dev/perksh/article… #zenn



What drives me crazy about status quo bias and opposition to progress is that when the cancer cure comes, no one who opposes the data center will refuse it. When your grandma is killed by a human driver when most cities are self driving, no one will think of the other grandmas.







