Digital Skills

Good design is frictionless, right? When a product seamlessly fits into our lives, when a digital experience is smooth and without problems, that is what we call successful design. It’s when we experience friction with a product that we start to pay attention. A Slack outage. A phone where the user interface makes it hard … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “This photographic series slips into the hours after the badge comes off — the unbranded life where designers become someone the job never meets.” Get Fabricio Teixeira’s stories in your inbox Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer. Remember me for faster sign in Five to nine … Weiterlesen

We know it’s not human. We feel heard anyway. What mind attribution does to your users, and why it’s now a UX design dial. Continue reading on UX Collective »

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