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**Author:** [@system](https://forum.zurb.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 29, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/welcome-to-zurb-glare/5 "2025-05-29T23:10:45Z")
Welcome to Glare This community is product and design leaders who want to make better decisions. Glare is an open framework for how teams learn from users, align on what matters, and ship products backed by evidence in… --- ## [You Don't Finish an Agent - Agent Building](https://forum.zurb.com/t/you-dont-finish-an-agent-agent-building/751)
**Author:** [@nathaliesmith](https://forum.zurb.com/u/nathaliesmith)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 10, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/you-dont-finish-an-agent-agent-building/751 "2026-08-10T17:06:18Z")
Partttttyyy People! We, like everyone else have been leaning into the agent world! We’ve been building Sol, our internal agent, and I went into the process assuming the hardest part would be the technical stuff, and boo… --- ## [I Used to Make the Thing. Now I Mostly Decide](https://forum.zurb.com/t/i-used-to-make-the-thing-now-i-mostly-decide/749)
**Author:** [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/i-used-to-make-the-thing-now-i-mostly-decide/749 "2026-08-01T18:12:26Z")
“Read less of the output.” “Focus on higher-level decisions.” “Stop making it by hand.” I love the craft of product-building. Calling it an obsession is an understatement. I’ve been using AI for about a year, adoptin… --- ## [Mayday, do we have a design thinking problem? (Q&A)](https://forum.zurb.com/t/mayday-do-we-have-a-design-thinking-problem-q-a/742)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/mayday-do-we-have-a-design-thinking-problem-q-a/742 "2026-07-20T13:46:32Z")
Excited today to be diving into jon\_daiello’s article, Language Isn’t Thinking. Jon explores a challenge many of us are running into with AI. Language has become incredibly cheap to produce, but fluent words are no long… --- ## [Signals: What makes a repository valuable?](https://forum.zurb.com/t/signals-what-makes-a-repository-valuable/676)
**Author:** [@EricZ](https://forum.zurb.com/u/EricZ)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/signals-what-makes-a-repository-valuable/676 "2026-07-20T13:30:45Z")
We built something (that’s going to be) cool! In short, this tool allows us to upload our research decks as a searchable research repository. Give the video a quick watch. We want to know: Have you used r… --- ## [AI analysis is only as good as the rules you set](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-analysis-is-only-as-good-as-the-rules-you-set/748)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-analysis-is-only-as-good-as-the-rules-you-set/748 "2026-07-17T22:19:38Z")
Came back to Caitlin Sullivan’s piece in Lenny’s Newsletter names four ways AI is messing up your synthesis. Shouldn’t have to create a rule that you have to remember to paste in every single time. That’s the case for Sk… --- ## [The Coolest, Rad(est) Designers are doing .... what?](https://forum.zurb.com/t/the-coolest-rad-est-designers-are-doing-what/719)
**Author:** [@nathaliesmith](https://forum.zurb.com/u/nathaliesmith)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2026, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/the-coolest-rad-est-designers-are-doing-what/719 "2026-07-14T04:18:53Z")
I know you haven’t heard it here first, but I’ll be another person to say it. The modern product designer role is changing… and fast. :sweat\_smile: With the introduction of AI, (at warp speed lol) AI can generate mockup… --- ## [How do you measure how well a system reasons?](https://forum.zurb.com/t/how-do-you-measure-how-well-a-system-reasons/747)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2026, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/how-do-you-measure-how-well-a-system-reasons/747 "2026-07-13T00:42:18Z")
We’ve used UX metrics to track people for years. What they did, how they felt, how fast they got through a task. We bucketed them into Attitudinal, behavioral, performance. Taste and delight…attitudinal. Habits and int… --- ## [Reworking the Business Goals page](https://forum.zurb.com/t/reworking-the-business-goals-page/746)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 11, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/reworking-the-business-goals-page/746 "2026-07-11T18:17:21Z")
Working through the Business Goals page this week and want to flag what we’re changing and why, since it touches how the whole Lead area reads. This area is still a mess of ideas that need shaping. Here’s the thing the … --- ## [Figuring out how to run learning loops](https://forum.zurb.com/t/figuring-out-how-to-run-learning-loops/744)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/figuring-out-how-to-run-learning-loops/744 "2026-07-10T16:33:39Z")
We just built Radar, an AI product and design news publication that watches 60+ sources, groups the signal into topics, and publishes daily with about 95% running on its own. Two weeks, start to finish, with our side tim… --- ## [Learning About Processes and Trying to Automate Everything](https://forum.zurb.com/t/learning-about-processes-and-trying-to-automate-everything/745)
**Author:** [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/learning-about-processes-and-trying-to-automate-everything/745 "2026-07-09T15:52:59Z")
One of the more important parts of my job here at ZURB is consuming and understanding everything that’s happening across services, marketing, and products. I’m here to try and automate all of it. Time is a key benefact… --- ## [Building better workflows with AI](https://forum.zurb.com/t/building-better-workflows-with-ai/743)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/building-better-workflows-with-ai/743 "2026-07-01T21:15:35Z")
Been thinking a lot about the new patterns of work, and how layering in automation and AI agents can make work both more interesting…and quite frankly, more irritating. :slight\_smile: @Kike\_Pena has a new article, You’r… --- ## [AI Won’t Save Your Thinking (Q&A)](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-won-t-save-your-thinking-q-a/651)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-won-t-save-your-thinking-q-a/651 "2026-07-01T19:59:43Z")
Today I’m diving @chris\_becker’s article, Keep making (AI will not save you). He argues that your long-term advantage over AI is not speed, it’s your ability to think, generate ideas, and shape meaning…so keep making! A… --- ## [We're in a World Where Designers Have Huge Amounts of Leverage](https://forum.zurb.com/t/were-in-a-world-where-designers-have-huge-amounts-of-leverage/652)
**Author:** [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 1, 2026, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/were-in-a-world-where-designers-have-huge-amounts-of-leverage/652 "2026-07-01T14:04:15Z")
Designers have been in a pretty tough position for the last 5 or so years (maybe longer?). PMs making all of the important decisions, designers taking the high-road for what they think matters. People think that AI is g… --- ## [Where does human judgment live when AI can build the software?](https://forum.zurb.com/t/where-does-human-judgment-live-when-ai-can-build-the-software/727)
**Author:** [@Scott.Romack](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Scott.Romack)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2026, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/where-does-human-judgment-live-when-ai-can-build-the-software/727 "2026-06-25T04:41:34Z")
A question keeps surfacing in every AI thread here: if AI can generate the implementation, where does human judgment actually live? I’ve been building a project, Grace Commons, that takes a hard position on it. Today t… --- ## [AI Design Fellowship](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-design-fellowship/737)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2026, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-design-fellowship/737 "2026-06-25T04:40:38Z")
I came across the Royal Commission’s 2026 Design Fellowship brief on “Deep Design & Human Creativity in an Age of AI and Uncertainty” and it seems to overlap with many of the conversations happening here. Interesting opp… --- ## [Where is your product and design team's focus?](https://forum.zurb.com/t/where-is-your-product-and-design-teams-focus/740)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/where-is-your-product-and-design-teams-focus/740 "2026-06-20T01:56:03Z")
I’m curious where people see their product and design teams headed over the next year. There’s design chaos happening in two directions. 1. The push to find the right uses of AI. It’s creating a lot of extra cycles as p… --- ## [Humans Don't Know What They Want (And How That's An Advantage Today)](https://forum.zurb.com/t/humans-dont-know-what-they-want-and-how-thats-an-advantage-today/689)
**Author:** [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/humans-dont-know-what-they-want-and-how-thats-an-advantage-today/689 "2026-06-19T19:47:05Z")
Loved this YT short from Artificially talking about the hardest part of aligning AI to do what you actually want it to: Alignment is tricky. Knowing what people want is trickier. Some people have this loc… --- ## [State of Product Design 2025](https://forum.zurb.com/t/state-of-product-design-2025/433)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2026, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/state-of-product-design-2025/433 "2026-06-14T01:05:28Z")
I thought this survey report was interesting: It confirms much of our own research around these problems and why we want to create a framework to support design impact. The greatest challenge designers with communicat… --- ## [Use Case: Glare Skills Quickstart](https://forum.zurb.com/t/use-case-glare-skills-quickstart/712)
**Author:** [@EricZ](https://forum.zurb.com/u/EricZ)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2026, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/use-case-glare-skills-quickstart/712 "2026-06-13T06:09:30Z")
Glare Skills have just released this week, and we’re excited to let others user them and hear your feedback! (You can get the new Glare Skills from the new site) Getting Started Once you’ve installed the skills, you ca… --- ## [What Does A Successful Product Look Like in 2026?](https://forum.zurb.com/t/what-does-a-successful-product-look-like-in-2026/718)
**Author:** [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2026, 5:09am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/what-does-a-successful-product-look-like-in-2026/718 "2026-06-11T05:09:30Z")
What a successful product looked like in the past is different than what they do today. The space is hyper-competitive, and even more-so now that AI is helping less technical people jump into the mix. The bar has lifted… --- ## [Loops are In, Prompting is Out](https://forum.zurb.com/t/loops-are-in-prompting-is-out/735)
**Author:** [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/loops-are-in-prompting-is-out/735 "2026-06-10T04:22:03Z")
According to Boris Cherny, the father of Claude code, he is no longer prompting, but writing loops: “I don’t write prompts anymore, I have loops running that prompt Claude… My job is to write loops. I uninstalled my IDE,… --- ## [The Human MOAT!](https://forum.zurb.com/t/the-human-moat/674)
**Author:** [@nathaliesmith](https://forum.zurb.com/u/nathaliesmith)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2026, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/the-human-moat/674 "2026-06-09T22:49:10Z")
Popped across this LinkedIn article by Becca Chambers and loveeddd it. Its running in the same vein of the other AI topics we’ve touched on (judgement, taste, etc) “No moat, you’re a commodity. Commodities get replaced.… --- ## [Eliminating Human Handoffs](https://forum.zurb.com/t/eliminating-human-handoffs/734)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/eliminating-human-handoffs/734 "2026-06-09T15:44:46Z")
This latest Mickensy report on Rewiring software delivery for the agentic era got me thinking about whether teams are converging or diverging on approaches to create design impact (thanks for the share James Hartman). L… --- ## [Are your teams heading toward the same future? (Q&A)](https://forum.zurb.com/t/are-your-teams-heading-toward-the-same-future-q-a/634)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2026, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/are-your-teams-heading-toward-the-same-future-q-a/634 "2026-06-09T13:56:11Z")
Today we’re diving into @stephanie\_muxfeld’s article, The Rise of Internal Divergence: Why Your Company Is Living in Multiple Futures at Once. Stephanie explores what happens when big changes like AI hit an organization.… --- ## [How can AI improve thinking and judgment? (Q&A)](https://forum.zurb.com/t/how-can-ai-improve-thinking-and-judgment-q-a/640)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2026, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/how-can-ai-improve-thinking-and-judgment-q-a/640 "2026-06-09T04:41:57Z")
I want to dig into an article by @jordan\_dalladay, Today’s organisations don’t have an AI problem — they have a thinking problem. His piece looks at why so many teams add AI to their workflows, yet their confidence hasn’… --- ## [Who Owns Judgment When AI Is Doing the Work? (Q&A)](https://forum.zurb.com/t/who-owns-judgment-when-ai-is-doing-the-work-q-a/489)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/who-owns-judgment-when-ai-is-doing-the-work-q-a/489 "2026-06-05T02:00:56Z")
I’m jumping into @mschindler’s article today, The importance of taste, and other lies we tell ourselves. He argues that “taste” will not be what separates designers from AI. Taste is often vague, personal, and easy to im… --- ## [Creating a Feedback System for Vibe-coded Prototypes](https://forum.zurb.com/t/creating-a-feedback-system-for-vibe-coded-prototypes/733)
**Author:** [@ben](https://forum.zurb.com/u/ben)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/creating-a-feedback-system-for-vibe-coded-prototypes/733 "2026-06-04T21:10:48Z")
We’ve been leaning into vibe-coding prototypes lately to capture more complex interactions. The problem is that with static screens, it’s hard to communicate the full vision and “feeling” of a product/feature to a user,… --- ## [Meet the latest folks to join us](https://forum.zurb.com/t/meet-the-latest-folks-to-join-us/97)
**Author:** [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/meet-the-latest-folks-to-join-us/97 "2026-06-02T19:19:54Z")
Excited to welcome new folks into our forum! We’re being intentional about who we invite so we can build something valuable together. Jake Johnson @jake\_rPrdV Worked with Jake on a couple of website redesigns, he’s go… --- ## [Active Design Leadership Opportunities!](https://forum.zurb.com/t/active-design-leadership-opportunities/137)
**Author:** [@nathaliesmith](https://forum.zurb.com/u/nathaliesmith)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/active-design-leadership-opportunities/137 "2026-06-01T17:53:19Z")
Hey guys! Wanted to drop a list of some active Design Leadership opportunities out in the world right now. This list will be ever growing week by week. Excited to curate some awesome opportunities. → Check them out! [Next page](https://forum.zurb.com/latest.md?page=1)