The Grove

A blog by the Telos Labs team

Design

13 posts

The Design Process Was Built for a World That No Longer Exists. What happens to design when execution is no longer the bottleneck.

Arely Rivera
Apr 6, 2026](/content/post/the-design-process-and-ai/index.html)

UI Design vs Performance: Speed Without Sacrifice Designing beautiful interfaces means nothing if performance suffers; speed and clarity must be built in early.

Amanda Sanjuan
Dec 16, 2025](/content/post/when-ui-design-meets-performance/index.html)

Paralysis by Analysis: When Research Starts Holding Your Product Back When too much research stalls progress, focused action and prototyping unlock better product decisions.

Carlos Quijano
Dec 10, 2025](/content/post/paralysis-by-analysis/index.html)

Thinking About University? Product Design Deserves a Spot on Your List Discover why Product Design deserves a place on your university list, blend creativity, tech, and business into a career shaping impactful products.

Carlos Quijano
Aug 28, 2025](/content/post/thinking-about-university-product-design-deserves-a-spot-on-your-list/index.html)

Design Sprints: A Smarter Way to Start or Boost Your Business From MVPs to bold new features, here’s when a Design Sprint makes the difference.

Alejandra Zapata
Jun 26, 2025](/content/post/design-sprints-a-smarter-way-to-start-or-boost-your-business/index.html)

UX Debt: The Hidden Cost of Scaling Fast and What You Can Do About It Avoid UX debt: how rushed design hurts growth, and what to do before it burns you out.

Carlos Quijano
Jun 20, 2025](/content/post/ux-debt-the-hidden-cost-of-scaling-fast-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/index.html)

When Should You Build an AI Chatbot for Your Company? The hard part isn’t building the AI chatbot, it’s making sure it’s worth building in the first place.

Alejandra Zapata
May 19, 2025](/content/post/when-should-you-build-an-ai-chatbot-for-your-company/index.html)

User Research in an AI World and 5 Things Your Company is Doing Wrong An examination of common AI implementation failures in product development, focusing on five critical mistakes companies make when skipping proper user research.

Carlos Quijano
Apr 23, 2025](/content/post/user-research-in-an-ai-world-and-5-things-your-company-is-doing-wrong/index.html)

Designing AI for Lawyers: Lessons from Building a Contract Automation Platform Designing AI to reduce contract negotiation time by automating redlines, creating expert Playbooks, and providing an AI assistant for real-time contract review and risk evaluation.

Carlos Quijano
Mar 25, 2025](/content/post/designing-ai-for-lawyers-lessons-from-building-a-contract-automation-platform/index.html)

Why Design Isn't a Luxury: The Business Case for Product Design

Alejandra Zapata
Nov 25, 2024](/content/post/why-design-isnt-a-luxury-the-business-case-for-product-design/index.html)

Accessibility and Ergonomics in Product Design Ergonomics and accessibility, while distinct, share key similarities that play a crucial role in your design.

Carlos Quijano
Nov 25, 2024](/content/post/accessibility-and-ergonomics-in-product-design/index.html)

Designing for AI: 5 Design Patterns for AI-Driven Products

Arely Rivera
Oct 25, 2024](/content/post/designing-for-ai-5-design-patterns-for-ai-driven-products/index.html)

Announcing the launch of the Rails World Conference app template to the Figma Community! This year we designed and developed the official Rails World 2024 conference app.

Carlos Quijano
Aug 29, 2024](/content/post/announcing-the-launch-of-the-railsworld-conference-app-template-to-the-figma-community/index.html)