Digital Skills

A content designer's guide to not wasting your wishes on something stupid I Dream of Jeanie I was a lucky child. My parents and grandparents spent hours reading and reciting fairytales to me. Most of them weren’t age-appropriate, of course, involving children being eaten and loved ones dying on every other page. But there was always … Weiterlesen

Users know their day. They don’t know your roadmap. Why smart users give convincing wrong answers, and how to do research that opens product space. Generated with AI by author A few years ago I sat in a research session at Moonfare. Since private equity is a premium product, our clients are mostly C-level executives, founders or … Weiterlesen

Why AI sent us back to the command line — On direct manipulation, visual intent, and the regression of AI tooling. Image generated via Google Gemini “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak.” — John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972 [1] The most advanced artificial intelligence systems in history now ask us to communicate through a … Weiterlesen

The things on the screen — numbers, tables, graphs, forms, dashboards — are just two-dimensional projections of a multi-dimensional data landscape. That data landscape in turn is just a representation of real-world phenomena and domain concepts. The design practices in this article will help you “see through” the product surface into the data and domain layers, and re-orient your … Weiterlesen

4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds. Claude Code can now write directly to the Figma canvas through Figma MCP. You describe an interface in natural language; it builds it. Visually, the result can be pixel-perfect. But click into any layer and you’ll find #5C6AC4 … Weiterlesen

How a few fries, a piece of chicken, and a beginner’s mind became my first lesson in Joyful Design. Continue reading on UX Collective »

The dark side of ‘user-friendly’ AI. There is a teenager in Florida who is no longer alive. He had spent months talking to a chatbot modelled on a Game of Thrones character. He fell in love with it. He told it so. Shortly after, he took his own life. The company that built the bot … Weiterlesen

Brand visibility determines whether your business gets found or gets passed over — in search results, on social feeds, and increasingly, in AI-generated answers. It’s one of the highest-leverage investments a marketing team can make, and also one of the most commonly mismanaged. Most teams treat visibility as a byproduct of other activities: run some … Weiterlesen

The creator’s code is dead. It’s time to replace moral outrage with something more permanent. They cooked. With your work. They scraped. With your work. I’ve been designing for over 30 years, and I’ve never been angrier about how things are currently. We’ve spent years perfecting our craft, only to watch the last couple of years … Weiterlesen