His principles were never about technology for its own sake. They were about restraint, honesty and most importantly clarity — exactly what the rush to ship AI keeps leaving out. Ten rules from a designer who keeps no screens, read again for the age of AI. AI assisted. Dieter Rams, one of the greatest designers no one other … Weiterlesen
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Moving past the myth of productivity and experimenting with your own rules for imagination. AI often makes me feel like I am having one big, long crisis. Like I’m in limbo or purgatory, or something. Doom and gloom, and WTF are we going to do? But then there’s the other side. When I see things … Weiterlesen
Perfection used to prove a person had tried. Now a machine conjures it in seconds, for nothing. So what is polish actually worth? Volunteers in a 1960s psychology study were played a tape of a man auditioning for a quiz team. He was dazzling, reeling off answer after answer, until near the end he clumsily knocked … Weiterlesen
How to navigate the uninvited participant in your next client meeting. Image source: Adobe Stock I was working with a client I’ve known for over fifteen years when they casually mentioned that they had asked ChatGPT to review the website design I’d recently delivered. To be clear, we have a strong relationship, and I don’t think there … Weiterlesen
Why Claude Design, Lovable, and v0 all wear the same face — and what a dynamited St. Louis housing project predicted about it. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Cybernetics might just be the most important body of knowledge in 2026 and beyond. But don’t take my word for it. Look at the evidence: from technical staff at Anthropic to a production engineering talk at Factory, and YC founders speaking at Stanford — a pattern keeps emerging. They’re all talking about cybernetics. And as far as … Weiterlesen
Online used to be a place you could leave. We designed the exit out of it because an exit reads as a leak. Here is why building it back is… Continue reading on UX Collective »
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Super efficient, but over time, that efficiency started to shape how I thought. I was moving faster towards answers, but along narrower paths. Ideas felt more predictable, and I was less surprised by where I ended up. The work converged quickly, sometimes too quickly. That’s when I started noticing … Weiterlesen