Digital Skills

What It Should Look Like: Building Shared Standards for AI Interfaces None of this happens by waiting. Here is where the work is. Name the patterns before the vendors lock them in. The web got semantic markup because designers agreed on what a heading, a list, and a link meant before the tools decided for … Weiterlesen

The Greeks knew the answer to this problem, 2300 years ago Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Dimitri: https://www.pexels.com/photo/office-meeting-with-focus-on-a-timer-29218403/ “We cut design production time from four days to six or eight hours. Exponentially decreasing the time to market. But optimizing my internal processes, that is the easy part.” — … Weiterlesen

Design used to let us wander; modernity replaced that wandering with efficiency — now, every product decides where you’ll end up before you do. Press enter or click to view image in full size Play & Design Living within the ‘rush’ Initially, I noticed this as an absence, rather than a symptom; rushing through chores … Weiterlesen

The work didn’t vanish with the screen. It fell one layer down. Press enter or click to view image in full size Five manual steps collapse into one delegation — and everything that coordinated them drops below the line, into a layer nobody was trained to draw. Generated with Gemini. I read John Maeda’s Design … Weiterlesen

Press enter or click to view image in full size For most of my career, my creative tool was a canvas. Figma, Illustrator, a sketchbook, a wall. Something visual I could mess with. For almost two years, that canvas has been a terminal. A black screen where I spend my days talking to agents, running … Weiterlesen

What happens when the entity that designs everything is itself being designed by machines? Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by cottonbro studio from Pexels I need you to pause for a moment. Think about the last time you sat in a strategy meeting where someone said, “We need to … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “That question didn’t exist not that long ago; and now, it’s becoming less obvious to answer (at least in some cases). As consumers, we evaluated creative work on its quality and the overall outcome. We have rarely been given access to the work’s process or “behind … Weiterlesen

On the surface, the argument makes sense. These models are trained on enormous collections of human-created work. They learn from rankings, comparisons, reinforcement learning, and millions of examples of what people tend to prefer. As the models improve, they become increasingly effective at predicting what users are likely to consider successful. But prediction is not … Weiterlesen

The most important design decisions aren’t made when everything works — they’re made when it doesn’t. Today is my daughter’s birthday. A few years ago, I volunteered to bake her cake — and my family was skeptical. Not in a mean way — the way families are when someone announces they’ll do something they’ve never … Weiterlesen