Designers are sharpening knives for the wrong fight
AI made building free. So why is the whole conversation still about how to build? We have never made a more beautiful knife, but as a…
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No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
Many companies silently assume that everybody wants more AI in their lives. That people are craving new AI features, new AI products, new AI workflows…
Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment
Standards come up from practitioners, not down from committees. A reasonable facsimile of L. Jeffrey Zeldman up top there. AI assisted. Jeffrey Zeldman helped end…
Play and design: in favour of the novel digital experience
Design used to let us wander; modernity replaced that wandering with efficiency — now, every product decides where you’ll end up before… Continue reading on…
What 32 design leaders do when told to move faster
The Greeks knew the answer to this problem, 2300 years ago Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
The terminal became my canvas
And it’s great… but horrible at the same time Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read More
AX is just the orchestration layer
The work didn’t vanish with the screen. It fell one layer down. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared on Read…
Who made this, Designing excuses, DesignOps in the age of AI
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…
When design becomes the organisation, and AI becomes the design
What happens when the entity that designs everything is itself being designed by machines? Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared…
Taste cannot be delegated
The death of design by committee in the age of AI As AI democratizes execution, strategic thinking becomes the true competitive advantage. In my previous writing,…
The interface has left the building
How chat, voice, and agentic AI are rewriting the first principles of UX design Note: I used AI tools to refine grammar and phrasing in this…
Did you verify that — or was it just too easy to believe?
The quote was fake, yet the outrage was real. While we argued about it, the water, the power and the public money slipped by unwatched.…
The Kintsugi problem
The most important design decisions aren’t made when everything works — they’re made when it doesn’t. Continue reading on UX Collective » This post first appeared…
Craft still matters, but it’s about outcomes
The craft never lived in the metal. When the medium changed, judgment moved to a new address. AI moved craft from production to judgment; the same…
AI in the WordPress Dashboard: Which Tasks Are Worth It?
AI-based features have been available in WordPress for quite some time. Several third-party plugins facilitate connections to various AI models. However, WordPress 7.0’s Connectors API…