Digital Skills

They used to be all over the web; now they’re almost extinct. What ever happened to “Download on the App Store” buttons? What buttons? Not too long ago, every website that tried to get its users to download an app to their phone had these buttons: “Download on the App Store” for Apple iPhones and “Get it … Weiterlesen

Why AI and Design Thinking were made for each other. Design Thinking and AI were made for eachother. Before a single pixel illuminates in a prototyping tool, Design Thinking asks the same question it has always asked: “What problem are we trying to solve?” Agentic AI hasn’t changed that question. It has changed who or what … Weiterlesen

The floor plan and the flexibility policy were chosen deliberately, by people who had an outcome in mind. When the results arrived, they… Continue reading on UX Collective »

Nader’s fight was never about one car, and neither is this one. AI assisted. Detroit spent a decade calling crashes driver error. The AI industry is running the same defense, now we’re all sitting in the same seat. Now is a great time to act. Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965. Only one … Weiterlesen

What 100 articles taught me about thinking, friction, and the Shoggoth on the horizon One hundred design articles, each a small act of thinking: a growing archive of ideas, experiments, doubts, and discoveries, made in the shadow of AI. (image source: Yeo) I can’t believe it. I have finally written my 100th design article. What was thought … Weiterlesen

What happens when the screen isn’t a fixed constraint? Foldables have existed in the market since 2019 with the Samsung Galaxy Fold, but it’s really only been an “Android thing.” And if your app primarily serves the U.S. market (where most smartphones are iOS), foldables haven’t been a priority to design for. Even with an … Weiterlesen

Why the ethics of AI-generated design depend on context, intention, and consequence Image source: ChatGPT I recently saw a missing-dog poster that was clearly made with AI. We all know the style by now. The overly polished image, overly energetic typography, and visual choices that somehow announce that a machine was involved. It got me thinking … Weiterlesen

He wrote about a magic you could always stop. We built the kind that gets loose. He understood us better than science fiction ever has. The one thing he couldn’t imagine was what we actually built. Shakespeare’s magic always had an off switch. Somebody could summon it and shut it down. It wore off on its own, … Weiterlesen

A house built for 38 years without a plan, and the apps we are shipping the same way. Each new feature works alone and connects to nothing. Six architectural moves that give the rooms you have already built a blueprint to obey. Sarah Winchester spent 38 years adding rooms onto rooms with no master plan and no … Weiterlesen