The tools I actually open every day, why each earns its keyboard shortcut, and the ones I quietly stopped using.
Figma for everything that is not text. Linear for everything that is. Claude for thinking out loud at the speed of typing.
Stopped using: standalone whiteboards, three separate note apps, and any tool that does not sync offline.
A list of small system decisions that looked over-engineered in week one and saved months by quarter four.
What changes when your user has 90 seconds between rooms and one hand on a tablet — and why "minimal" stops being a style choice.
Generative tools have not replaced the discovery phase. They have collapsed the cost of being wrong, which changes how much you should explore.