Justin Lokitz

Mar 11, 2026

Design Your Own Work: Starting a Design Business in the Age of AI

Entrepreneurship is surging. AI is lowering the barriers. Designers now have the tools to build companies of one.

Feb 25, 2026

If You Don’t Design the Future, You’ll Get the Default

Viral predictions about AI’s impact are forcing a hard look at work, power, and relevance.

Feb 18, 2026

Murderbot Was Right

The future of design leadership belongs to those who extend their cognition through coordinated AI agents.

Feb 11, 2026

Who Owns the Decision Now?

As AI collapses execution time, responsibility shifts. This piece explores why design leaders are being pulled into governance, not just influence.

Jan 31, 2026

Design Is No Longer a Role. It’s a Leverage Point for Weirdos.

When AI erases handoffs, the people who can frame, decide, and ship become non-fungible.

Jan 24, 2026

Designing What Doesn’t Yet Exist

New Ventures, Organizational Culture, and the Quiet Power of Rituals with Kursat Ozenk

Jan 17, 2026

Loss Is Not the Opposite of Progress

Why moments like CCA’s closure are signals to evolve the system, not evidence that creativity is in decline.

Jan 7, 2026

What is a Designer in 2026?

As AI makes execution cheap, the designer’s real job in 2026 is deciding what matters and making those decisions stick.

Dec 17, 2025

Prompting Is Not Practice: What Designers Lose When They Stop Making

Why judgment, credibility, and leadership in the age of AI still come from making real things, not (just) selecting from generated options.

Dec 10, 2025

Reviving Critique: The Missing Link Between Taste and Better Decisions

Taste Isn’t Enough. Judgment Wins. Here’s How to Build It.

Dec 4, 2025

How Taste Actually Works (and Why It Separates Good From Great)

Taste isn’t innate. It’s a practiced discipline. This piece breaks down where taste comes from, why it matters, and how anyone can refine it.

Nov 18, 2025

Building tomorrow, today

Redefining digital product creation, collaboration, and transformation in the age of AI — with Sid Vanchinathan.

Nov 12, 2025

Designing from the Inside Out: Building Human-Centered Orgs in the Age of AI

How Stephanie Knabe Builds People Systems That Actually Work

Oct 30, 2025

Vibe Designing: How Cursor Revolutionized Our Product Design Process

Parcha's Head of Design, John Baunach, shares how he ditched Figma for Cursor and went from spending weeks on useless mockups to building working prototypes in days—and why you should too.

Oct 23, 2025

Ethical AI Adoption: Designing Trust When the Barrier Is Human

Discover how designers and leaders can bridge the human barriers to ethical AI adoption—transforming fear, culture, and trust into the foundation for transparent, inclusive, and sustainable innovation.

Oct 8, 2025

Why Designers Must Shape AI Evaluations

The next competitive advantage isn’t model performance...it’s judgment. And that’s where design comes in.

Sep 24, 2025

From Utility to Delight: Reclaiming the Human Edge in Design

Why Delight Will Define the Future of Design in the Age of AI...and What Design Leaders Can Do About It.

Sep 17, 2025

Designed to Listen

How Gregory Stock uses empathy, taste, and art to lead strategy in the age of AI.

Sep 10, 2025

Design as Strategy: How Leaders Turn Creativity Into Growth

How great design leaders move beyond aesthetics to deliver efficiency, differentiation, and competitive advantage.

Aug 23, 2025

Is Design Shift Hitting the Mark? You Decide.

Honest feedback wanted: What do you love, and what can we do better?

Aug 9, 2025

The AI Advantage: How Boutique Agencies Are Redefining Design Consulting

Comedia CEO Chris Basey on why smaller teams are outpacing giants, by combining hands-on execution, creative agility, and AI-powered speed.

Jul 26, 2025

AI Meets UX: The Playbook for Future-Proof Design

When algorithms can spin up an interface in seconds, design can’t hide behind deliverables. Nick Cawthon shares why steering direction, grounding AI in human insight, and fusing design with AI-assisted engineering are the path forward.

Jul 19, 2025

Boutique Consulting Is Booming: How Small Firms Are Winning Big in the AI Era (and How You Can Too!)

As legacy firms struggle to adapt, a new wave of hyper-specialized, AI-powered consultancies is redefining what clients expect—and how results get delivered.

Jul 12, 2025

From Big Tech to Bold Moves: Why Designers Make the Best Founders

How Maya Elise Joseph-Goteiner turned a Google layoff into a launchpad—redefining design leadership, embracing uncertainty, and building a high-velocity agency for the AI era.

Jul 5, 2025

Born in ’00: 10 Iconic Brands Turning 25 This Year

From scrappy startups to cultural cornerstones — we spotlight the design-driven companies launched in 2000 that reshaped how we live, work, and connect.