I spent last year bouncing between Asian countries. Almost 6 months in Japan, a month in Korea, a month in Taiwan. Then I tried living in the West for the first time: Sydney, since November. It was more of a culture shock than I expected. Car-dependent, spread out, and after Asia where everything is walkable … Weiterlesen
Insights from products that grow and grow. A few years ago, after running a complex global product launch, I wrote down everything I learned. To track my own ideas. To make sense of things. I’ve kept adding to it ever since. I’ve worked on products used by a handful of people and products used by a meaningful … Weiterlesen
The problem with over-simplification of AI Agents’ interfaces. I noticed that I’m becoming increasingly annoyed while talking to AI agents. Not because they are not intelligent enough, but quite the opposite. I can spend an hour discussing an idea with a model, while walking with my dogs. We’re moving between design, engineering, psychology, physics, and … Weiterlesen
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The discourse surrounding generative AI in the creative arts is frequently characterised by a sense of historical rupture, a seismic shift unlike any that has come before. Critics often frame the emergence of Large Language Models and diffusion-based image generators as an unprecedented existential threat to the ‘soul’ of … Weiterlesen
The Anatomy: Tokens Up Top, Prose Below Open a DESIGN.md and you find two zones. Up top, fenced off, sits YAML frontmatter: typed groups for colors, typography, spacing, rounded corners, and components. Below the fence, Markdown prose, written in a fixed order that opens with Overview and closes with a short list of do’s and … Weiterlesen
Marshall McLuhan argued in Understanding Media that every new medium changes not only how information is distributed, but also how it is created. Search engines rewarded discoverability, social media rewarded engagement, and LLMs reward interpretability. Whether we realize it or not, we are beginning to design with this new audience in mind. The problem begins … Weiterlesen
For a century we designed the office around a single question — how do we see work? AI is quietly changing the question. Press enter or click to view image in full size The room reads as a cathedral, but from any desk you can see the whole floor — beauty and the gaze built … Weiterlesen
Your boarding pass has been sitting in that app for three days. But right now, as you sprint through Terminal 5, it’s the last thing you… Continue reading on UX Collective »
Once an obscure job title, creative technology is becoming a new way of working, and a core capability inside modern product teams. Soon, many of us may be working this way. Press enter or click to view image in full size Image credit: Header by Ioana Teleanu As AI collapses the distance between idea and … Weiterlesen
Building data color schemes with Generative AI. Press enter or click to view image in full size The workflow for fusing two sequences to create a diverging data color scheme combined with Perplexity’s listing of suggested data color schemes. Here, I explore the use of Perplexity, a text-based generative AI model, as a color suggestion … Weiterlesen