Mar 23, 2026

You’re still designing for an architecture that no longer exists Issue 292

• Ideation
  You’re still designing for an architecture that no longer exists

  The shift becomes obvious once you stop thinking about features and start paying attention to the experience.

• Strategy, Customers
  Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later

  Many product teams still lean on usability improvements and isolated behavioral tweaks to address weak activation, drop-offs, and low retention only to see results plateau or slip into shallow gamification.

• Product Discovery
  AI in Requirements Gathering

  How AI improves product success. Traditional requirements gathering is falling behind. AI in requirements gathering is faster, more accurate, and reduces errors. Get my strategies and advice on how to use AI to future-proof requirements gathering here.

• Problem-solution fit
  The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After

  We are past the point where the question is whether artificial intelligence will exceed human capability across most cognitive domains. It already has. The remaining question is not if but when the full implications arrive, and the “when” is measured in months and years, not decades.