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AI × Design Weekly — Dec 23, 2025

A weekly digest features the best links and reflections on how AI and design are blending together

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How we built the v0 iOS app - Vercel
The v0 engineering team breaks down the challenges and decisions behind building the v0 app for iOS.

How Vercel's Engineering Team Built the v0 iOS App

This article provides a technical breakdown of the challenges and decisions behind building the v0 iOS app using React Native and Expo.

Discover the intricate engineering feats required to make a React Native app feel truly native, from keyboard handling to animations.

Vercel's deep dive into building their first mobile app reveals that achieving a native, award-worthy user experience often requires patching core libraries and inventing new UI patterns on the fly.


Bridging Product Design and AI Thinking

This article explores how core concepts in AI can reframe the way product designers approach feedback, intent, and the future of their role.

Discover how the principles of AI, like 'loss' and 'gradients,' are surprisingly similar to the user-centric design process you already know.

As generative systems evolve, the role of a product designer must shift from controlling interfaces to guiding intelligent systems, focusing on optimizing feedback loops rather than perfecting pixels.


UX Is Your Moat (And You’re Ignoring It)
Last week, Google released Nano Banana Pro, their latest image generator. The demos looked impressive. I opened Gemini to try it. Then I had a question I needed to ask. Something unrelated to image…

Building UX As A Competitive Moat

This article argues that deep user experience investment creates a defensible business advantage that is significantly harder to copy than features.

Stop treating design as a superficial layer and start recognizing it as the primary mechanism preventing your customers from churning.

In a market saturated with feature parity, the specific friction of the user journey is often the only meaningful differentiator left.


Introduction To Graphics Shaders

This chapter explains the fundamental concepts behind shaders and how they are used to manipulate pixels and vertices for high-performance graphics.

Unlock the ability to create visual effects that look like magic by learning the math that runs on the GPU.

Understanding shaders is the dividing line between a developer who consumes UI libraries and one who can build immersive visual experiences from scratch.