Digital Skills

The future of design isn’t about pixels. It’s about function. And the organisations that figure that out first will be the ones that win. Press enter or click to view image in full size Design value by McKinsey Every time I join any new organisation — whether it’s a product company scaling its fifth round … Weiterlesen

Animacy isn’t something you design. It’s something you trigger. In 1973, a Swedish psychologist named Gunnar Johansson ran an experiment that should have changed how we think about design. He placed twelve reflective dots on a person’s joints — ankles, knees, hips, elbows, wrists, shoulders — and filmed them walking in a dark room. The … Weiterlesen

Everyone is selling you this pitch about AI and design: it’s faster. Ten times faster. Ship in an afternoon what used to take a month, watch a prototype assemble itself while you sip your coffee. I bought it too. Then I spent the better part of a year rebuilding my studio’s entire design process around … Weiterlesen

Ten years ago, roughly 15% of job applications resulted in an interview. In practical terms, that meant submitting six or seven applications often led to one interview. Today, that figure has fallen to roughly 2–3%, meaning many applicants now submit 30 to 50 applications just to receive a single interview. Meanwhile, recruiters report receiving more … Weiterlesen

The one-line difference from a note: a note is background knowledge Claude always carries, a skill is a tool it reaches for only when the job calls for it. Get Christine Vallaure’s stories in your inbox Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer. Remember me for faster sign in What it fixes: The tasks you do … Weiterlesen

Video and Animation — Grok Grok is the toy in the kit, and I mean that as a compliment. When I want a short video or a loose animation to make a point land, I open Grok and let its image-and-video side, Grok Imagine, do the work; the current video model arrived in mid-2026. It’s … Weiterlesen

Something strange happens when you look closely at the AI assistants we use every day. Two of them can be built on the same underlying model, trained the same way, given the same instructions, and still feel like two different people. One is warm and a little vague. The other is sharp and slightly cold. … Weiterlesen

A recap of ideas from our panel discussion for a topic that’s on everyone’s mind Continue reading on UX Collective »

As apps become more context-aware, the designer’s job is shifting from shaping screens to shaping systems. Systems thinking — going beyond the screen. Image generated by AI. Apple made a clear shift with their AI strategy at WWDC 2026: Siri now draws on Gemini models through a Google partnership, and their Intelligence Framework gained a selection of new features. … Weiterlesen