On the small delay that makes a brainstorm actually storm Press enter or click to view image in full size Note by Hiroshi One day, I was invited to join a brainstorm. I opened the Zoom link they had sent. The team looked well composed for a brainstorm — six or seven people, a good … Weiterlesen
The habit loop that built social media is now wired into every chatbot — here are ways to use it without becoming the dealer. 16 min read · 14 hours ago Nir Eyal published Hooked in 2014, and product teams have been running its playbook ever since. It was a topic I taught in General … Weiterlesen
How I use Claude Code to challenge assumptions and turn research into a living artifact Press enter or click to view image in full size Claude Code can already do plenty of basic research work. It can search the web, compare products, synthesize documents, and organize the result into a template. These are useful capabilities, … Weiterlesen
Everything got faster, closer, more certain. The person inside stayed the same. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “We increasingly talk about taste as though it were something that can be collected, measured, or encoded. We assume that if enough people agree, or if enough data is available, the right answer will eventually emerge. But taste has never worked that way. Taste begins with knowing what good looks … Weiterlesen
Universality isn’t designed into things. It’s selected by surviving constraints — and often, people are the constraint. On Sunday evening, the tournament ends, and almost all of it stops existing. The identity FIFA has spent four years rolling out — the mark, the type, the color system, the motion package, the stadium dressing, the lower … Weiterlesen
Will it happen again? Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Jonas Schindler on Unsplash When AirPods were unveiled in September 2016, many of the initial reactions were skeptical or openly mocking. They looked like wired EarPods with the cord snipped off. The Guardian compared them to “a tampon without … Weiterlesen
Surprise, Sincerity, Sublime — a Future of Liminal Design Press enter or click to view image in full size What’s the point of Eden without slither in the grass? If the current state of design seems pandering, predictable and insincere with indoor cats anxiously circling the food bowls of corporate America, it would also be … Weiterlesen
We spent a decade hiding behind the interface. Now it’s gone. Eight months ago, the questions started showing up in meetings I wasn’t supposed to notice them in. “Can’t Figma AI just do that?” “We used Claude for the mockups — do we still need to bring in a designer?” “If the AI can generate the screens, what exactly are … Weiterlesen
One source of truth in the middle, two copies that stay honest, and why AI makes it urgent. A design system exists twice at once. It is in Figma as components, and it is in code as the real thing engineers ship. Those two are supposed to be the same. They never quite stay that … Weiterlesen