Design

The Brief

Two structural pressures dominated today's signals: domestic aviation is entering a capacity squeeze — IndiGo's losses, groundings, and rationalisation strategy will tighten seat supply and push fares upward on trunk and Tier-2 routes for at least two quarters — while EaseMyTrip's profit collapse signals that the discount-driven OTA model is no longer self-funding at scale.

For Cleartrip, these are not independent events: higher fares reduce conversion at the top of the funnel, while a weakened EaseMyTrip creates a genuine window to recapture budget-travel segments without matching unsustainable coupon depth. The design and tooling signals are equally pointed — Figma Make and the designer-as-implementer pattern are not future-state; they are current workflow changes happening at teams like Notion right now, and the gap between teams that have restructured around them and those that haven't will show up in shipping velocity within two quarters. Benedict Evans's 1997 framing is the right lens for the AI signals today: the question is not which AI features to ship, but which ones create compounding advantage that a resource-heavier MakeMyTrip cannot simply replicate. The thread across all of today's issue: structural change is compressing the window between signal and competitive consequence — in aviation supply, in OTA economics, and in product tooling.