Digital Skills

Partitioning a system into clean modules doesn’t remove complexity — it relocates it to the seams. Cities learned this by zoning. Software is relearning it one microservice at a time. Press enter or click to view image in full size Cape Coral from above: a grid of parcels with the connective tissue of a city … Weiterlesen

This is the work Lou Rosenfeld, and spent careers formalizing in Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond — organization, labeling, and the semantic structures that let people, and now machines, understand what a piece of content is before acting on it. Press enter or click to view image in full size The bookshelf with … Weiterlesen

It’s time to shake off the grip of the templated web and celebrate a world of Brand x Code Thanks to a combination of Napster and my parents’ AOL account, I started designing websites when I was a teenager. And since then, I have been lucky enough to work for some of the best design … Weiterlesen

Recently (July 2026), I had lunch with a colleague, Maxim Safioulline, Professor of IxD; we both teach at the ArtCenter College of Design and at the Santa Monica College IxD programs. Like any nerd conversation today, it drifted into AI, and we discussed some of the challenges of adopting AI as a foundation when teaching … Weiterlesen

The Pattern Rhymes This has happened enough times to have a shape, AI or not. These are the AI cases. In the summer of 2023, Zoom amended its terms of service to claim broad rights over customer data for training and tuning models. Nobody noticed for months. When a technology blog surfaced the clause in … Weiterlesen

The invisible man at the chocolate fountain If you have ever used a chocolate fountain, you know the physics. The chocolate is thin. It drips. A child holding a skewer of marshmallows is a guaranteed spill. The counter around one of these should look like a crime scene by nine o’clock. This one never did. … Weiterlesen

Designers often say that UX isn’t really about screens. It’s a line I see in portfolios, I hear in interviews; that’s the line we use to signal that we’re thinking beyond just pixels. But honestly, for most of my career, that wasn’t true. In one way or another, the job was screens: building flows in … Weiterlesen