Lauren Jung

Agency Spotter has released their May 2025 Top Web Design Agencies Report, with MAXBURST earning the #6 spot among 1,400+ agencies evaluated nationwide. The New York-based digital agency was recognized for its innovative approach to web design and commitment to AI-friendly development practices. CEO Andrew Ruditser emphasized the company's focus on creating websites that excel in both human engagement and AI system compatibility. #WebDesign #DigitalAgency #BusinessNews #TechNews https://lnkd.in/ePPgTVUr

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If your UX is confusing, no amount of SEO or AI will save it. Primacy's Nick Walkowicz and Ryan Sylvestre decode the why and the how. https://lnkd.in/ebjUvp63

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The classic design process is evolving and fast. For African tech innovators, this is a wake-up call: the way we build products, design interfaces, and solve problems is changing globally. Leveraging AI, thinking beyond traditional processes, and embracing new design archetypes could be the key to creating world-class products from Africa. 🌍✨ Tech is no longer about following established playbooks, it’s about adapting, experimenting, and innovating faster than ever. #AfricanTech #Innovation #Design #AI #ProductBuilding #FutureOfWork

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Katie Dill is the Head of Design at Stripe. Randy Hunt is the Head of Design at Notion. They’ve each led design at some of the most design-forward companies—from Airbnb to Etsy to Lyft—building products used by millions of people. In this episode of The General Podcast, Katie and Randy swap notes on: - How to protect product quality without being precious - The “should designers code” debate - The pursuit of beauty in large design orgs - Having a point of view as a design leader - Strong design cultures that don’t compromise - Taste vs. consensus in product development Listen 👇 🎬 YT: https://lnkd.in/gR3AiDpj 🎧 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ga8zs4qx 🎧 Apple: https://lnkd.in/ddC_HFbu ✉️ Substack: https://lnkd.in/gAA8YwEx

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Jenny Wen from Anthropic was on Lenny's podcast recently talking about how design is changing & I've seen it shared a lot with very little pushback and lots of hyperbole so I want to add some balance. There are 3 things in here that are genuinely worth sitting with. 1) She puts numbers on the time allocation shift - she's gone from 60-70% of her time mocking & prototyping down to 30-40%, with the rest now spent pairing with engineers & shipping code directly. That's real data from her context & it marries with anecdotal evidence I see from others who've found genuine efficiencies in their personal workflow - but what you do with that reclaimed time is going to vary dramatically depending on where you sit, what you're building & who you're building it for. 2) She talks about vision horizons compressing - no more 2 or 5 year design visions at Anthropic, they're working 3 to 6 months out & the output is a prototype that points a direction, not a polished deck. 3) Her three hiring archetypes super interesting - the block-shaped generalist who's 80th percentile across multiple skills, the deep T specialist who's top 10% in 1 thing, & the craft new grad who learns fast & isn't weighed down by old process. That last one I'm a huge advocate of - the value of a graduate with strong foundational skills who hasn't yet been told how things are supposed to work is massively underestimated. However I think the conversation around this episode has been a bit uncritical. Jenny says the traditional design process is dead. But when it comes to what replaces it the answer is essentially... be flexible, pair with engineers, set short-horizon vision. And in my opinion she hasn't offered an alternative process with any real detail. I don't think she's claiming to, but the way people are sharing this you'd think someone just handed us the new playbook. She didn't. That vision compression, that faster prototyping all only works if your entire company is oriented to working this way and again, lets not fetishise the single domain product design/dev challenge. I think it's important to say - this is one designer's perspective from inside one of the fastest moving AI labs on the planet. If you're a design lead at a bank or an insurer or a healthcare company, where you've got regulatory constraints, slower release cycles and engineers who aren't running seven Claude instances... there is nothing in this episode that is going to dramatically change your Monday morning. The frontier is useful context. It is not a universal strategy. Take the main points but don't fall for the 'XYZ is dead' or 'XYZ role is no longer needed' The hard work of figuring out what the new process actually looks like for your team, your constraints, your product - that's still yours to do. You can dramatically shift how fast you move between value gates in your work. Saying that the double diamond is dead (not what she said) shows you never understood design in the 1st place.

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