AI: Audits, Dedicated Roles, and Portfolios for Designers

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Key Takeaways

1Develop a responsible AI auditing skill

2Explore pathways to become an AI designer and treat AI as a tool

3Experiment with coded portfolios and workflows with agents

4Texts question the purpose of software, idealism, and the evolution of the profession

💡Why it matters — AI is transforming design practices and benchmarks, prompting the acquisition of new skills and a rethinking of roles.

A selection of readings and tools places artificial intelligence at the heart of designers' priorities. The agenda includes developing a responsible audit skill, exploring pathways to become an AI designer, coding one's portfolio, and describing workflows with agents and Claude discussions. Texts simultaneously question the purpose of software, the erosion of idealism, and a future envisioned as an evolution rather than an extinction.

Developing AI Audit and Dedicated Roles in Design

Richa Sehgal, a senior product designer at Microsoft, details the creation of a responsible AI audit skill. Maya Brennan offers a guide on how to become an AI designer. Erin Schroeder recommends treating AI as a tool rather than a person, reminding us that it is merely 1s and 0s behind the screen.

Applying AI Daily with Agents and Coded Portfolios

Laís Lara Vacco describes how to code a portfolio "with a vibe." In another piece, opening a computer reveals eleven cmux tabs, each containing several paused agents, with unread badges on Claude-type exchanges covering various topics such as taxes, landscaping, or reviewing political documents. This panorama raises the question of a 2026 version of yesterday's multiple tabs and includes the idea of assembling components by dialoguing with an agent.

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Depicting Incremental Tools and a Mentioned Shift

A resource describes a proliferation of design tool startups, from code to canvas and from canvas to code, with the promise of elevating design systems into other abstractions. These movements are characterized as useful and incremental, with the assertion that a more significant change has since begun.

Presenting the Editorial Framework and Other Targeted Readings

Several texts question the profession's stance: Michael Buckley describes a slow erosion of idealism in design in the age of AI, while another asks, "Is design dead in the age of AI?" and reports concrete concerns among professionals who continue to produce and publish their work. Arin Bhowmick argues that "extinction" is not the right lens to think about software in the age of AI, but rather "evolution," while Michael Burnett raises practical and existential questions about the purpose of software.

The UX Collective presents itself as an independent publication that elevates often-ignored voices and helps designers think more critically, with a weekly selection and a "Syntax" section dedicated to fundamental concepts of the designed world. Among the suggested readings are "Who Gets the Meter?" by Takuma Kakehi and "It Wasn't Really Your Fault, Coyote" by Perre DiCarlo. The introduction suggests that online was once a place of disconnection, that the exit was conceived as an escape, and that its reconstruction now falls under a design responsibility at a time when AI might dissolve its last seam.