Digital Skills

Design is, by nature, a discipline that works with imagination (Folkmann, 2010; Tully, 2012). Every act of design is, in some way, speculative, since a designer’s work consists of bringing abstract ideas to life, ideas that eventually materialize into physical reality (Auger, 2013; Ward, 2020). When a designer is developing a product, digital or otherwise, … Weiterlesen

Lessons in clarity, confidence and community Nearly 1 billion runs were recorded on Strava in 2024. Targeting runners is a big market. And it’s a market that’s growing — according to Strava, running was the ‘fastest growing sport globally’ with ‘Gen Z turning to running to create community and connection’. Which is the winning strategy … Weiterlesen

The consequences of making habit-forming apps. Press enter or click to view image in full size Are our designs rotting brains? Image by Daley Wilhelm via Canva. I have two YouTube videos in my Watch Later that I have ironically been procrastinating on watching: replacing doomscrolling with writing (how to finally write your novel) and … Weiterlesen

Bridging the gap between atomic design and conceptual models To truly understand a digital product as a complete entity, our industry has two powerful but somewhat disconnected frameworks. Brad Frost’s Atomic Design gives us the language for the visible architecture of a product, the tangible components we see and interact with. Parallel to this, the … Weiterlesen

Press enter or click to view image in full size Philosopher Karl Popper The moral armor of tolerance Popper saw tolerance as a civic safeguard. That means a system designed to protect disagreement so reason could do its work. But somewhere along the line, tolerance stopped being a discipline. Let’s look at where things are … Weiterlesen