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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems

@wolfbruening.de
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Lead UX designer, blogger, speaker, connector of dots and bricks, casual photographer. Creating digital experiences for OTTO. Writing for @produktbezogen.de ✏️ Topics: UX Design, Design Systems, Product Discovery, eCommerce, Lego 🏠 Hamburg, Germany

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produktbezogen @produktbezogen.de · 23/09/2026
„Wenn ich mit KI zehnmal schneller in die falsche Richtung renne, habe ich trotzdem viel Zeit verloren." Unser Autor Wolf war im Digital Product Talks Podcast von COBE. Fünf Punkte aus dem Gespräch: Feature Factory, Produktstrategie, Design Systeme und KI. 👉 www.produktbezogen.de/digital-prod...
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Von Feature Factories, Speisekarten und Vokabelheften - produktbezogen.de
Unser Autor Wolf Brüning war zu Gast bei Digital Product Talks, dem Podcast der COBE-Gründer Felix van de Sand und Daniel Wagner. Die drei haben gut
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 04/08/2026
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 09/06/2026
E-Sports Tournament… but with Outlook! 🤯
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 21/05/2026
Happy to see that the recording of my latest talk is finally available. 🤩 Last month I had a blast speaking at @uxdx.com in front of a diverse, welcoming crowd about my perspectives on the future of UX and product development in the AI era. Watch it here ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_Y...
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11 Perspectives on the Future of AI, UX and Product Development - UXDX Meetup Hamburg
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 21/04/2026
I am an optimist. Looking at AI I see so much potential for us designers, researchers, and product people to thrive… if we embrace the change and don't hide under our desks. If you want to learn about my thoughts on what will happen to our craft, come see my talk next Monday uxdx.com/profile/wolf...
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 15/04/2026
AI accelerates product development – but are we building the right thing? Don't run faster in the wrong direction. Join Sabrina and me in tomorrow's webinar (April 16, 5-6pm) to discuss why Product Discovery is more vital than ever in the age of AI. 👉 2eorve.share-eu1.hsforms.com/2VVQPdtpSR-W...
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 07/04/2026
Ich freue mich sehr, dass ich in 3 Wochen als Speaker beim Hamburger Meetup von @uxdx.com auftreten darf. Ihr habt vielleicht schon meine Gedanken zur Zukunft von UX & Product in Zeiten von AI gelesen und am 27.4. werde ich euch ein wenig mehr darüber erzählen. Kommt vorbei! uxdx.com/community/co...
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UXDX Community: Hamburg: The New Product Playbook: AI, UX and the Next Wave of Innovation | 27 Apr 26
A local meetup that brings together the latest practices in Product, UX, Design and Dev for high-performing cross-functional product teams.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 02/03/2026
"I believe that what will happen (…) is that product discovery will become the main activity of product teams, and gen ai-based tools will automate most of the delivery." - Marty Cagan Very interesting read on the future of product teams 👉
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A Vision For Product Teams | Silicon Valley Product Group
A partnership dedicated to teaching best practices to product teams and product leaders
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 26/02/2026
Design systems have a bright future ahead of them. They will serve as the vocabulary and grammar for GenAI to write programs. They will make the difference between receiving cobbled-together spaghetti code, that is at best suitable for prototypes, and getting scalable, production-ready code.
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produktbezogen @produktbezogen.de · 24/02/2026
Die KI wird ein gehöriges Wörtchen zur Zukunft der Produktentwicklung mitreden. Warum aus Dialogen Betriebssysteme werden, warum es dumm ist, heute keine Juniors einzustellen, was KI mit der ersten Kleinbildkamera zu tun hat & 5 weitere Thesen zur KI-Zukunft: www.produktbezogen.de/zukunft-von-...
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8 Thesen zur Zukunft von KI, UX und Produktentwicklung
Unser Autor Wolf Brüning wagt einen Blick in die Zukunft und beschreibt, welche Veränderungen der konsequente Einsatz von KI für UX und Produktentwicklung bedeutet.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 24/02/2026
"Wenn der Wind der Veränderung weht, bauen die einen Schutzmauern und die anderen Windmühlen." Wenn wir unsere KI-Zukunft mitgestalten wollen, müssen wir sie verstehen. Ich habe ein paar Thesen zu Zukunft von UX & Produkt formuliert. Diskutiert gerne mit! 👉 www.produktbezogen.de/zukunft-von-...
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8 Thesen zur Zukunft von KI, UX und Produktentwicklung
Unser Autor Wolf Brüning wagt einen Blick in die Zukunft und beschreibt, welche Veränderungen der konsequente Einsatz von KI für UX und Produktentwicklung bedeutet.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 17/02/2026
Many Agile Coaches master Delivery but stay on the sidelines during Product Discovery. Don’t just build the product right – build the RIGHT product! 🎯 Join @sabrinahauptman.bsky.social & me for a free webinar this Thursday (Feb 19, 4pm CET). Sign up here: share-eu1.hsforms.com/1T5S9EKjaQaC...
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 07/02/2026
Der tauende Permafrost hier in Hamburg gibt interessante Relikte aus dem Erdaltertum frei. Ich wusste zum Bespiel gar nicht mehr, dass vor unserem Haus eine Straße ist. 🫠
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 14/01/2026
Currently working on a WordPress template – first with Gemini and then with ChatGPT – and it feels like working with someone who’s just as clueless but doesn’t want to admit it. It’s my first time coding with AI that I’ve felt I’m better off alone.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 12/01/2026
If someone has been practicing Scrum strictly by the book for ten years, are they actually still agile?
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 08/01/2026
Doesn’t look like we really need that upcoming blizzard tomorrow. But then again, I’m no expert… 🙈🤷🏻‍♂️
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produktbezogen @produktbezogen.de · 07/01/2026
Wir freuen uns riesig, euch endlich mal wieder neuen Content zu liefern. Unser Gastautor Fabian Puls erklärt euch, warum Leadership auch für Junior Produktmanager ein wichtiges Thema ist: www.produktbezogen.de/leadership-f...
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Leadership für Junior Produktmanager - produktbezogen.de
Wie Junior Produktmanager Leadership ohne Autorität leben: Purpose klären, Vertrauen aufbauen, Einfluss nehmen und Teams wirksam gestalten.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 24/12/2025
Und auch in diesem Jahr singt für Sie wieder der Gefangenenchor die alte Weihnachtshymne all jener, die dieses Fest in Unfreiheit begehen müssen: „Verlies Navidad“ In diesem Sinne, frohe Weihnachten. 🎄
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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · 18/11/2025
Alright. First #talks of #btconf Berlin are ready. Here is Thorsten Jonas and “Each Design Is a Manifesto for the Future”, with which he opened Berlin’s 2025 edition. Sorry for the delay, but have been handicapped during the last week. More to follow. youtu.be/SGSMl8BZBBQ
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Thorsten Jonas – Each Design Is a Manifesto for the Future – beyond tellerrand Berlin 2025
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 03/11/2025
„Vibe coding is a lot like stock-picking – everyone’s blabbing about their big wins. Ask what their annual rate of return is above the S&P, and it’s a quieter conversation. This is how we end up with a firehose of AI hype, and yet zero signs of a software renaissance“ learnui.design/blog/wheres-...
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Where’s the AI design renaissance?
AI design is currently overhyped · Will AI take design jobs? · What should designers focus on in light of rapidly changing AI tools?
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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 27/10/2025
Dass sich im Laufe der Pandemie die Lügner und die Entsolidarisierer immer stärker durchsetzen konnten, dass sie damit durchkamen, ihren Egoismus als "Freiheit" zu deklarierten und dass sie Wissenschaft "Ideologie" nennen durften, davon haben sich Deutschland und die Welt immer noch nicht erholt.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Now that I've done my wikipedia page post, it's time for the daily reminder … Don't repost rage bait. Don't repost misinformation. Don't amplify bad people by reposting. EVEN to dunk. Repost what you want to see more of in the world. If you crave engagement, post a cute animal.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 05/10/2025
„The most successful product leaders I know rarely talk about being product-led. They're too busy actually leading through their work.“ www.thedecisionstack.com/stop-saying-...
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Stop Saying "Product-Led." It's Setting You Up for Failure.
Your CEO's eyes glaze over when you say 'product-led.' Here's the reframe that gets product teams the influence they actually want.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 10/09/2025
If you tell ChatGPT to be the world’s best doctor or investment banker, keep in mind: it won’t actually become that. It’s more like an actor trying to mimic what it thinks the world’s best doctor or banker would say. So be mindful of which advice you take from an actor – unless it’s about acting.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 09/09/2025
Only looking at how to use AI to augment the work you did in recent years won’t cut it. The change brought by AI will be so profound that it will redraw the lines between disciplines. So, how can you prepare your product org for the AI era? 👇🧵 (1/10)
This image is purely meant as illustration and is not additional content. It shows a group of experts and a robot (the AI) working together. The experts have mixed roles like "Designer & Developer", "Business Analyst & Test Automator" or "UX Researcher & Software architect".
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 19/08/2025
In my experience "full stack" often means: backend dev who reluctantly does some frontend but most of the time neither really good nor efficient because she/he never thoroughly learned frontend because frontend is still looked down upon by many devs as "not real programming". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 18/08/2025
Hey folks. If you want to vote for my wife‘s #therookie LEGO Ideas project do it now or it’s too late 😉 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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The Rookie - LAPD Mid-Wildshire Police Station | LEGO® Ideas
Why I built this set? I’m a huge fan of the TV show The Rookie and a passionate LEGO builder. Since 2022 (Season 4), I’ve been recreating iconic scenes from The…
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If your timebox only allows for one iteration, then you're going to need three timeboxes: one to do it, one to learn how you fucked up, and one to redo it.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 21/07/2025
Reports are emerging of companies being silly enough to lay off designers – because of AI. I do believe that AI will fundamentally change how we work, how we build products, and which role will do what. Still, I am convinced the companies letting go of their designers are harming themselves. 👇🧵
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 18/07/2025
Fabian, wir müssen reden. 🤣
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 30/06/2025
If you as a UX Designer are afraid that some day you will be replaced by a Product Manager using ChatGPT, sit down and learn how to replace your Product Manager with AI before that happens. 😉
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 16/06/2025
A big round of applause to all the organizers, speakers, hosts and participants of tonight’s Into Design Systems Hamburg. I had a blast and I am definitely looking forward to the next time. ❤️
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 05/06/2025
So happy I haven’t deleted my Twitter account yet. 🤣
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My latest post on @OReillyMedia. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity. That idea is anathema to me. It’s also wrong, both morally and practically. www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-fir...
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AI First Puts Humans First
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 19/05/2025
Why (most) agile coaches can't be product coaches: www.petra-wille.com/blog/why-agi...
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Why Agile Coaches Can't Be Product Coaches — Petra Wille
Over the past few years, I've noticed a growing visibility of product coaches in our industry. They're at the conferences, they're prominent on social media, and their influence is making waves in the...
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 15/05/2025
Hamburg! There is a new Design Systems meetup in town. Two interesting talks and hopefully lots of interesting people. June 16th, 18:30, downtown Hamburg. Register here: lu.ma/ids-hamburg?...
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Into Design Systems at Jakala - Hamburg, Germany · Luma
Join us for an exciting Into Design Systems Meetup at the JAKALA office in Hamburg! 🎉 Agenda ⭐ Design Systems × Figma: What’s New, What’s Next?Whether you're…
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 14/04/2025
Spannend! "UX auf Staatsniveau: Warum der neue Koalitionsvertrag ein Wendepunkt für UX-Professionals sein könnte." germanupa.de/blog/ux-auf-...
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UX auf Staatsniveau: Warum der neue Koalitionsvertrag ein Wendepunkt für UX-Professionals sein könnte | German UPA
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 03/03/2025
Aus aktuellem Anlass eine Begriffsklärung, um peinliche Missverständnisse zu vermeiden: Fröhliche Menschen marschieren durch die Straßen: Fasching Fiese Menschen marschieren durch die Straßen: Faschos Fiese Menschen klauen einem die Zugangsdaten: Phishing Bitte. Danke.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 02/03/2025
The kids are alright. (In Hamburg)
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 02/03/2025
Respekt, ChatGPT! 👍
Screenshot von Chat GPT. 
Frage: Wer schrieb „Zanilla und der Murch“
Antwort: “Zanilla und der Murch” wurde von Gofid Letterkerl verfasst, einem der berühmtesten zamonischen Dichter. Letterkerl war bekannt für seine gefühlvollen Balladen und düsteren Romantikwerke.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 24/02/2025
Heute verstehe ich endlich, wie das mit dem antifaschistischen Schutzwall gemeint war. 😕
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 24/02/2025
Die 4,97% der BSW sind doch wohl ein Honeypot für Russische Einflussnahme. Mal gucken, wo noch ganz plötzlich Säcke voller Wahlzettel auftauchen. (Ansonsten von meiner Seite ganz viel Schadenfreude für deren Ergebnis parallel zum sehr guten Abschneiden der Linken)
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 15/02/2025
At first I read „world of ironic dinosaurs“ and boy, would I have gone to see that.
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Arne Kittler @arnekittler.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Product success is a team sport - here are my thoughts on how to connect product direction with commercial activities www.thedecisionstack.com/product-dire...
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Product direction meets revenue: Functional alignment for winning together
Product success is a team sport - here's how to connect your product direction to the activities of your commercial teams & to the big picture of your organisation.
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 12/02/2025
Just spent some time on Twitter and that place is completely rotten. Just mobs of trolls attacking any critical opinion. Terrible…
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 11/02/2025
We became servants to the process, following it step by step every single time, saying stuff like “trust the process.” We made designers feel like their work wasn’t complete if they didn’t start from a perfectly articulated problem statement. jennywen.substack.com/p/dont-trust...
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Don't trust the (design) process
absolutely not starting a newsletter
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 11/02/2025
Alignment is important because it helps to build trust, avoid waste and trigger decisions. Contrary to common belief, alignment does NOT mean that everybody always agrees. Instead, alignment means creating clarity, even in dissent. www.arnekittler.de/blog/escalat...
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 11/02/2025
Spineless sycophants. 🤬
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Wolf Brüning 💙 Design Systems @wolfbruening.de · 08/01/2025
Even after a decade of building design systems, I’m still amazed at how much thought and effort go into creating even a simple component. Building DS components is not trivial. They need to be incredibly robust to function across all applicable contexts and with all applicable contents. They… (1/3)
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