AI in Classrooms, Accessibility, Design Systems, and Father's Day
Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 Unstructured Data
🏢 AI in Classrooms
📱 Accessibility
👓 Design Systems
🦸 Father’s Day
🪐 Complexity in the Universe
Podcast
Structured Thinking for Unstructured Data: A Conversation with Founder Kirk Marple
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle is joined by Kirk Marple, founder and CEO of Graphlit, to explore the world of unstructured data and how it’s transforming with the rise of LLMs and AI-native tools. Kirk shares his journey from working at Microsoft and General Motors to building Graflit—a platform designed to make unstructured data as usable as structured data.
News and Useful Reads
Let’s Talk About ChatGPT and Cheating in the Classroom
What place does AI have in the classroom? It isn’t going away and will likely become more prevalent in work, school, and life. So how do we handle it while still helping students learn and master necessary skills?
Fostering An Accessibility Culture
I strongly believe in bringing accessibility to the forefront, in our companies and our products. It’s not just about ensuring that small groups of people can also access what we’re building, thought that is important. But incorporating accessibility practices makes everything better for everyone.
To effectively shape habits, it’s crucial to focus on systems and processes (who we want to become) rather than obsessing over a final goal (or what we want to achieve). This perspective is especially relevant in accessibility.
The Broken Promises of Design Systems: Why Following the Rules Won’t Get You to Great Products
Do you have a design system? Probably. Or you may be working on one (which is the state of almost every company I’ve been with). But are they everything we hope?
Design systems promised to bring order, consistency, and speed to product design — but have they delivered on that promise? In this candid reflection from a former Material Design lead at Google, we explore how rigid rules, endless maintenance, and poor adoption have turned design systems into creativity killers. As AI reshapes the design landscape, it’s time to ask: are design systems holding us back from what’s next?
Other Interesting Finds
2025 Father’s Day gift guide
If you haven’t got a gift for a father in your life, you still have time. But the clock is ticking. If your need some ideas, hopefully this article helps. It’s got some good choices based on what your father might like.
A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe
Maybe complexity is part of nature. And everything naturally tends toward the more complex?
In this new view, biological evolution appears not as a unique process that gave rise to a qualitatively distinct form of matter—living organisms. Instead, evolution is a special (and perhaps inevitable) case of a more general principle that governs the universe. According to this principle, entities are selected because they are richer in a kind of information that enables them to perform some kind of function.
