Recently, I've been working with my team to come up with some new design principles, that we can use for making better design decisions.

Traditionally, I'd kick this process off by scouring the internet. Checking sites like principles.design, re-visiting all the old links from my pocket feed (is that even what people do anymore?), and absorbing any article that i can find from Substack, Medium or my overclogged inbox.

But to be honest - my approach to writing design a set of principles has completely changed with the advent of conversational AI's like ChatGPT or Claude. This is the type of task that an LLM can do so well. Chat GPT has helped me to generate a tonne of ideas for design principles, and it also helps me edit and refine them. In no time.

That said - I do still like to read what the humans have written. Here are some links, new and old, that I've been reading in the last week.

• 5 proven sets of design principles and how I use them
  
  

• Design principles are dead (Long live design principles!)
  
  

• Some design principles never change
  
  

• Hardik Pandya's excellent post about design principles

Writing a set of design principles is yet another example of how generative AI can be so helpful for divergent and convergent thinking. But I'm not giving up on the humans just yet.

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/imagine 3 dimensional shapes, minimal, red circle, blue square, yellow triangle