July 2026
5 articles published this month.
Future of UX Research: Guide for How UX Researchers Can Protect Their Jobs & Careers
A two-year forecast for the role, and the three postures toward AI that decide your place in it
Identify the AI Silent Failures & Conversational Loss Patterns Killing Your Product Adoption
Which failures to look for, why your dashboards miss them, and what to fix — grounded in Stanford research on 100,000 real AI conversations
Lenny's 2026 Tech Survey: AI Burnout Is Surging, Layoff Fear Is High
Noam Segal and Lenny Rachitsky's second annual tech worker sentiment survey found burnout up 11 points in a year, tech workers telling newcomers not to follow them, and a workforce splitting in two.
Search is the use case that every business should be focused on solving with AI
AI didn't invent people's preference for search — it proved how badly businesses have neglected it. Fixing search is the highest-leverage AI bet most companies aren't making.
Why AI Hasn't Found Its Killer Use Case
Nearly a trillion dollars in investment later, most people's daily lives look the same. The data behind that gap, and what closing it will take.