What happens when the entity that designs everything is itself being designed by machines? Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by cottonbro studio from Pexels I need you to pause for a moment. Think about the last time you sat in a strategy meeting where someone said, “We need to … Weiterlesen
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “That question didn’t exist not that long ago; and now, it’s becoming less obvious to answer (at least in some cases). As consumers, we evaluated creative work on its quality and the overall outcome. We have rarely been given access to the work’s process or “behind … Weiterlesen
On the surface, the argument makes sense. These models are trained on enormous collections of human-created work. They learn from rankings, comparisons, reinforcement learning, and millions of examples of what people tend to prefer. As the models improve, they become increasingly effective at predicting what users are likely to consider successful. But prediction is not … Weiterlesen
The most important design decisions aren’t made when everything works — they’re made when it doesn’t. Today is my daughter’s birthday. A few years ago, I volunteered to bake her cake — and my family was skeptical. Not in a mean way — the way families are when someone announces they’ll do something they’ve never … Weiterlesen
The quote was fake, yet the outrage was real. While we argued about it, the water, the power and the public money slipped by unwatched. The line was almost too neat, which should have been the first warning. There was Jeff Bezos, on a stage in Paris, calmly suggesting that people might drink a little … Weiterlesen
There’s a question I keep coming back to when I look at what’s shipping in 2026: what exactly are we designing anymore? For thirty years, the answer was obvious. We designed screens. Menus, modals, buttons, carousels. We organized information into hierarchies, drew flows between states, and obsessed over pixels. The desktop metaphor: windows, folders, files, … Weiterlesen
Review At The End Because AI Erodes Quality Quietly AI does not fail loudly. It fails by accretion, one plausible shortcut at a time, and the damage shows up in the codebase months later. GitClear analyzed 211 million changed lines from 2020 to 2024 and found the signature of that erosion. Refactored code, the lines … Weiterlesen
Perhaps it is the market that draws the norm into the open Press enter or click to view image in full size Note by Hiroshi Sato When I was in junior high, a classmate teased me for “actually paying attention in class.” It happened after English class. Japan’s English curriculum includes a program called ALT … Weiterlesen
DesignOps was built to bring order to design at scale. Its mission of standardising workflows, governing tools, and aligning teams around a shared process was always fundamentally about enabling designers to do their best work, consistently and at speed. For years, that mission played out in relatively familiar territory: design systems, handoff documentation, Figma governance, … Weiterlesen
“I don’t have time, the deadline is tight” — results always matter, and yeah, we need to pay bills. Optimize what can be optimized, automate what can be automated. But with criteria. Often it will make sense to use it, sometimes not. Why not? Will you know how to answer? Because, although AI is a … Weiterlesen