Digital Skills

10 controversies and a brief history of the Framer marketplace Full disclosure, I do not work at Framer, nor do I have any affiliation with them. I’m just a regular creator who has been in the space for a while and watched the evolution unfold in real time. I sold my first Framer template in April … Weiterlesen

Two generations learned what a thinking machine looks like from a production line of individuals and the picture is not holding. AI assisted. The saga imagined thinking machines as immortal individuals in metal bodies. Real AI showed up as copyable software, and every difference is worth understanding. We grew up with the droids. R2-D2 beeping … Weiterlesen

How structured emergence solves manager burnout, team bottlenecks, and systemic design debt Observing the flock based on how individual biological behaviors aggregate into structured group intelligence (image source: Asa Leonard) Molly Graham wrote an essay a week ago that ruined the traditional management approach for me. In it, she asked what would happen if we stopped long-term … Weiterlesen

If you’re comparing Scrunch alternatives, start by separating monitoring from execution. Monitoring tools show how brands appear in AI-generated answers. Optimization tools add recommendations, content briefs, or workflows that help teams act on those findings. Answer engine optimization (AEO) has become a budget priority. In Conductor’s 2026 survey of more than 250 enterprise digital leaders, … Weiterlesen

The trusted face is the mask, but the machine underneath doesn’t know when it’s wrong, and that’s exactly what you won’t check. The more we trust a name, the less we question the machine wearing it, and the more that name has to lose when the machine is confidently wrong. A few weeks ago my team … Weiterlesen

How models change what we notice, question, and understand Tiny furniture [Content warning: This article contains images of miniature death scenes.] I recently started building a miniature house in my free time. I am clumsy and have messed up a lot of things, but I still find the process therapeutic. Part of it is how cute … Weiterlesen

Make your website feel more luxurious using a simple CSS trick. A cover image for “The CSS hack that extends your website on iOS Safari” Introduction People who read a lot of books know that paperbacks get read faster, they get shoved into backpacks, they get dirty and folded around, but they sure enough get read. In contrast … Weiterlesen

How “Everyone can Design” means designers don’t have to wait for permission Continue reading on UX Collective »

Two science-fiction futures for machine intelligence: the lonely oracle and the crowded junkyard. Only one of them came true. AI assisted. Droids are cheap, specialized, everywhere, and slightly annoying. That commodity vision maps to how artificial intelligence is reaching your desk right now. Science fiction gave us two competing pictures of artificial intelligence, and for decades … Weiterlesen