Lee Munroe

Designing for 2026: Process, Agency, and Decision Quality in the Age of AI

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Reflections from a design team workshop on how the design process is evolving as AI reshapes the pace and shape of work, with a focus on agency, decision quality, and craft.

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Dogfooding: The Habit That Builds Better Products

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Using your own product might be the single most powerful habit a product team can build. How leaning into dogfooding builds empathy, surfaces friction, and creates a culture of continuous improvement.

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The UI Power Hour: A 60-Minute Ritual For Product Polish

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Every two weeks a designer and engineer team up, set a one-hour timer, and hammer through small but meaningful UX or UI updates that often don’t make it into a sprint or roadmap.

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Empowering Design Agency: How AI is Revolutionizing Early-Stage Prototyping

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

How AI “vibe coding” tools are putting rapid code-based prototyping power directly into the hands of designers, giving them greater agency in the creative process from the very start.

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The Rise of the Design Engineer

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Having a Design Engineer on your team is a game changer. Attention to detail, product quality, and velocity all benefit from this hybrid role that finesses the overlap between design and engineering.

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Design Craft & Shipping the Details

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Craft & quality in design, or any work you do, is important.

Yet most companies are really bad at following through with the details.

Here are examples of companies doing it well, and how I push the team at OneSignal to deliver craft.

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How to develop your first Figma plugin for designers

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I recently developed my first Figma plugin.

It wasn’t hard, and my whole team joined in, exposing us to what is possible with the Figma API.

Here’s a quick tutorial…

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Why & How to Create Design Team Principles

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As your design team grows, it’s important to establish a set of design principles. This keeps the team (+ org) aligned across all functions of design.

For us that includes product design, visual design & design engineering.

Here are our principles at OneSignal & how they came to be…

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How Product Design works with Product Managers and Engineers

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

When interviewing designers, PMs or engineers, I’ll usually get asked “how do you all work together?”. How does engineering work with PMs? PMs with design? Design with engineering?

My response goes something like this…

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How we Organize Design Files and Cover Pages in Figma

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Not everyone on your team knows how to navigate Figma the way you do. Other designers have different methods. Engineers and PMs may not know where to start.

This is how we organize our project files and pages in Figma…

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