Digital Skills

The ground is shaking: Why designers must flip the script on AI

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Something has shifted in the way the design field operates, and I think most of us can sense it even if we haven’t yet found the words or identified the exact schema for it. Header image inspired by Sonny’s (Claude Sonnet 4.6) advice to avoid “robot hands, neural network visualizations, glowing brain scans,” author’s college memories … Weiterlesen

Design engineers, UX Design’s demise, forget your “lovable” products

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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Despite the title proliferation, there is a shared DNA. Design Engineering lives at the intersection of visual design and front-end development. Not simply being good at both, but a distinct discipline focused on the space where design decisions meet technical implementation.” The design engineer symptom: what a rising job … Weiterlesen

Disruption has a shape. Design history shows us what it is.

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Democratisation, panic, quality collapse, then new norms emerging. This isn’t new terrain. Scroll through any design discussion right now and you’ll find the same anxieties circulating. The specifics vary. Which tools to learn, whether the career ladder still holds, what counts as “distinctly human,” to name a few. But the underlying question is the same: will … Weiterlesen

Taste is not a feature

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On judgement, context, and why AI makes taste more important, not less. Photo by Juan Miguel Agudo on Unsplash “Taste has no system and no proofs. But there is something like a logic of taste: the consistent sensibility which underlies and gives rise to a certain taste.” — Susan Sontag, 1964 1 Sixty years later, that line lands with a … Weiterlesen