Design Decisions

How Founders Should Pick a Designer?

Hire for Judgement, Not Screenshots

Sep 16 • Bear Liu

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6:53

Arc filtered its users twice

ISSUE 88 / Arc filtered out most of its users before they clicked anything, and both filters sit in a place every product has.

Sep 13 • Bear Liu

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Before, during, after

ISSUE 87 / Every AI product ships a chat box, and almost none of them build the two parts that decide whether anyone comes back.

Sep 6 • Bear Liu

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August 2026

What you refuse to build

ISSUE 86

Aug 30 • Bear Liu

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What survives a rebuild

ISSUE 85

Aug 23 • Bear Liu

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When AI needs its own window

ISSUE 84

Aug 16 • Bear Liu

The wrong scorecard

ISSUE 83

Aug 9 • Bear Liu

Welcome to Design Decisions

ISSUE 82

Aug 2 • Bear Liu

November 2025

81 / Make Peace with the AI Wave Anxiety

Staying well, focused and grounded in a fast-moving world might just be the success that counts.

Nov 21, 2025 • Bear Liu

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80 / “I want to start an AI business, but don’t know how to begin?”

Others don’t know the pain points, you do.

Nov 14, 2025 • Bear Liu

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79 / A Feedback Gallery for the Soul

“Is my work good enough, does it matter?”

Nov 9, 2025 • Bear Liu

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October 2025

78 / The train of midlife hasn’t stopped - it has simply switched tracks

So, the newsletter is back.

Oct 26, 2025 • Bear Liu