Follow for updates New voices, movers, and rising stars each month. FOLLOW Substack Medium SHARE AI for UX Index — July 2026 The roster — 116 people plus context — on two axes: degree (reach) by betweenness (cross-cluster spanning). Click a quadrant to zoom in, a category to filter, a node or row for the full profile. Researched and generated with Claude, so this is just for fun. Try: Dan Maccarone · Jaime Levy · Shambhavi Gupta · Pavel Samsonov · Geoffrey Litt Click a category to show/hide • Click a quadrant to zoom • Click a node for detail All labels Broker edges Chart Table Cards AI UX PM T1 T2 T3 T4 AI PM AI Writers Educators Citation Broker Superconnectors Bridges Megaphones Specialists Degree → reach / audience size Betweenness → cross-cluster bridging Greg Nudelman Brad Frost Josh Clark + Veronika Kindred John Maeda Pavel Samsonov Maggie Appleton Amelia Wattenberger Vitaly Friedman Christine Vallaure Rupa Chaturvedi Duane Degler Aarron Walter Linus Lee Chris Noessel Anil Dash Llewyn Paine Paul Ford Pascal Strasche Anthony Tseng Karri Saarinen Jeff Veen Luke Wroblewski Lenny Rachitsky Shreyas Doshi Marty Cagan Andrew Ng Petra Wille Tal Raviv Aman Khan Ben Erez Mihika Kapoor Maggie Crowley Sherif Mansour Aakash Gupta Ben Shneiderman Don Norman Jakob Nielsen Lou Rosenfeld UX Collective Nick Babich Chris Strahl Jared Spool Julie Zhuo Teresa Torres John Cutler Claire Vo Pawel Huryn Patrick Neeman Caitlin Sullivan John Whalen Jaime Levy Anna Arteeva Maven (AI for Designers) Sherveen Mashayekhi Erin Essex Maxime Rabot Kate Syuma Ridd Henry Modisett Pietro Schirano Nate B. Jones Erika Flowers Xinran Ma Jorge Arango Ethan Mollick Alex Kantrowitz Josh Lovejoy Simon Willison swyx (Shawn Wang) Dan Shipper Marily Nika Peter Yang Colin Matthews Kate Moran Jordan Singer David Hoang Kshitij Agrawal Dan Maccarone Anna Arteeva Bridge · AI-design educator (Maven) Reading the map Where a voice sits is degree (reach) by betweenness (cross-cluster spanning). Each quadrant calls for a different play. LOW DEGREE · HIGH BETWEENNESS Bridges — punch above weight Your home quadrant. Maggie Appleton, Amelia Wattenberger, Linus Lee, Duane Degler, Rupa Chaturvedi, and Patrick Neeman. The most underpriced names on the board. HIGH DEGREE · HIGH BETWEENNESS Superconnectors Reach and bridge. John Maeda, Lenny Rachitsky, the broker institutions, plus near-misses like Andrew Ng and Don Norman. LOW DEGREE · LOW BETWEENNESS Specialists Tier 3 enterprise practitioners and citation HCI researchers. Cite and engage as peers; not distribution engines yet. HIGH DEGREE · LOW BETWEENNESS Megaphones Big inside one cluster. Aakash Gupta, Jakob Nielsen, Pawel Huryn, Pavel Samsonov. Volume, not wall-jumping. Circle — a voice. Color shows their cluster, and bigger dots are higher tiers. Diamond — a broker: a publication or distribution surface, not one person. Hollow square — a citation: cite and cross-pollinate, not a direct-outreach target. On the climb High-momentum AI-for-UX voices punching above their current reach — worth tracking before they consolidate. Click any to spotlight them in the chart. Anna Arteeva Design leader turned AI-coding educator; agentic coding and prototyping for designers — squarely your Claude Code lane. Christine Vallaure moonlearning.io; teaches Figma-to-code and “Figma to Agents.” Bridging design and agentic build. Maxime Rabot “AI without losing craft” — recurring lessons on AI + design systems and visual craft. Kate Syuma Growthmates; growth-design + AI onboarding. Growth↔UX crossover with real newsletter reach. Erin Essex Sr Interaction Designer at Google/YouTube; the practical, real role of AI in day-to-day UX. Caitlin Sullivan Ex-Head of UXR at Spotify; teaches Claude Code for customer insights — a UXR-to-AI tooling bridge. John Whalen Cognitive scientist (Johns Hopkins PhD); agentic AI for research and synthetic users. Sherveen Mashayekhi Prolific Maven host on AI for PMs and designers — agent interfaces and Figma Make walkthroughs. Want to be on the next index? New voices, movers, and rising stars are added every month. Get listed, or reach out with a suggestion or a correction. Get listed × ‹ swyx (Shawn Wang) Marily Nika › Dan Shipper AI WRITER (TECH) SUPERCONNECTOR every.to • LinkedIn 64 Degree 62 Betweenness — Fit score High reach and broad spanning — a superconnector. Whatever lands here propagates across communities, not just one. Why they're on the map Co-founder and CEO of Every; writes Chain of Thought on AI and knowledge work, the allocation economy, and practical AI workflows read widely by builders, writers, and PMs. A high-reach broadcaster adjacent to your themes. Details NicheAI and knowledge work PlatformEvery How to approach PathEngage direct on their main platform. First moveCite; pitch a guest essay WhereLives on Every — start there. CadenceAI writer (tech) — high-reach broadcaster a UX audience already reads. Engage by citing or translating their take into UX terms; rarely a two-way peer. Where they sit × Columns Choose which columns appear in the table. Name always shows. Exports follow what's visible. Tier Quadrant Niche Platform Deg Btw Fit Show all Hide all Done