Digital Skills

The film gave us two futures. We rebuilt the one that was easy to demo. The film cautioned against predictive systems and pre-crime, and the we turned it into a screensaver. For two decades, Minority Report has been shorthand for the future of interaction. Show the film to a designer and one image surfaces: Tom Cruise … Weiterlesen

The closed system of software engineering, where the complexity of the code acted as both a wall and a gatekeeper. AI didn’t touch what engineers actually know. It ended their power to be the only ones who could say what was possible. When I started out as an information architect, one of my first projects … Weiterlesen

How agentic interfaces are changing what designers control, from interactions to agency, orchestration and attention. Agentic canvas can now brings context from across tools into one place, then acts on it without needing step by step instructions. AI-generated visual, Aurélie Radom ©. For most of the history of software, the interface has been the place where … Weiterlesen

On unbundling the Send button, so that words can work as sketches Continue reading on UX Collective »

A case study in GenAI accessible color palettes. Continue reading on UX Collective »

The operator dwarfed by the machine that generates his future for him. The film’s real subject was never the screen. Steven Spielberg’s Precogs Are The Sharpest Portrait Of Generative AI Anyone Drew Before It Arrived — Fluent, Confident, Acting On Their Own, Hallucinations Included. Watch Minority Report again and count what people quote from it and the answer … Weiterlesen

How Gestalt principles power any great design system Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to design for advanced features nobody uses Continue reading on UX Collective »

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Interface design has known this for decades. It’s baked into one of the oldest usability heuristics in the field — Jakob Nielsen’s sixth, recognition rather than recall, which asks designers to minimize memory load by making elements, actions and options visible, so that nothing has to be carried from one part … Weiterlesen