Digital Skills

Are we makers by nature — or consumers by design? You were wired to create. The digital environment around you was designed to keep you consuming. So, what happens when something has to give? Picture a designer at the end of a working day. They’ve reviewed a dozen AI-generated concepts, responded to Slack threads, scrolled through Dribbble for inspiration … Weiterlesen

How we turned Apple’s haptic semantics into three numeric parameters that work identically on iOS, Android, and web — and mirror our Figma components. I’m currently working on a design system for a large SDUI project, and in this article I want to share my experience implementing haptics in our applications: explore the challenges you may encounter … Weiterlesen

An idea to turn folders from passive storage into active systems that organise, act, and evolve based on your intent. Folder instructions The Claws and Claudes of the world have introduced a new way of interacting with AI assistants. Yes, they can take over your laptop, act on your behalf, organise your files, and even execute … Weiterlesen

How to feed AI coding agents the brand, patterns, and visual language that aren’t in your code. An open book of code lines beside a fanned deck of design specimens — the two artifacts of a product, only one of which the agent can read. Generated with OpenAI. TL;DR. AI coding agents can grep your codebase. They still produce … Weiterlesen

The value of design in the AI era Header image inspired by the original Macintosh ads and by Barbara Kruger’s conceptual art. The 1984 Apple Macintosh computer image was prompted, and finalized by the author in Adobe Photoshop. It was generated by Gemini who is not sure what 1984 actually refers to. Type was rendered by … Weiterlesen

The language used to articulate AI is increasingly selling mathematics as magic and agency as intelligence; the words we use have power and meaning The emerging technologies of AI, especially agentic AI, have many of us reaching for metaphors to make sense of them. I have seen many compare the technology to autopilot in planes. While … Weiterlesen

Somewhere between the happy path and edge cases, we forgot to design against harmful actors. Source: Netflix Last month, Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary, “Inside the Manosphere,” was released and has generated a lot of online discourse. Brought to the eyes of the public by other programs like Netflix’s Adolescence, the “manosphere” is a network of communities … Weiterlesen

Why the industry is investing billions in better models when the real failure happens before the model ever runs A few months ago, I watched a physician abandon an AI diagnostic tool in under 30 seconds. She wasn’t skeptical of the technology. She’d actively asked for it. Her hospital had deployed the tool after a year-long procurement … Weiterlesen

The digital assembly line: Strategic orchestration and the industrialisation of user experience Order of design Whether you’re a designer, developer, or manager building or launching software and applications — you’re a victim of the AI and factory model dilemma. The digital design and development landscape is currently experiencing a significant transition, moving away from artisanal, manual craftsmanship toward a … Weiterlesen