What we lost when design became mainly UI, and what AI gives us the chance to reclaimDesign practice is changing again. The process is shrinking, and most tasks, especially the ones usually reserved for junior designers, are being automated. Speed is even more important than before, and the go-to-ma
An entire generation of designers climbed the ladder. A third say it got better. A third say it got worse. A third aren’t sure.Photo by 360floralflaves on UnsplashSomeone asked me what I do at a dinner last month. Normal question. I’ve answered it a thousand times. But this time I paused. Not becaus
If you want to put AI adoption at risk, ignore the design debt at your own peril.It doesn’t announce itself, but sits there, quietly, underneath every product decision you make, until one day the cost of moving forward is so high that you have to look down.This is a very accurate (and literal) way o
What are we willing to pay to get paid? Embracing non-commercial creativity.I used to dream of having a job where I could be creative. I wanted to be paid to do the thing I loved. I had read about starving artists and struggling creatives, and I was happy and proud when I found a job in the creative
Trying to define Design Engineering today, and why the confusion around it turned out to matter.“UX Designer”, “UX/UI Builder”, “UX Engineer”, “Product Builder”, “Design Engineer”… As job titles multiply, so does the confusion about what’s actually expected. — Made with GeminiHave you ever read a jo
AI-designed experiences are failing real people. The designer, the PM, the vendor, and the company are all pointing somewhere else.Photo by Austin Distel on UnsplashA man’s father died. He asked a chatbot what to do next.Jake Moffatt’s father had just passed away. He needed to book a last-minute fli
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They keep arriving with open arms and leaving with your wallet. That’s not an accident. It’s a playbook.You notice it only in retrospect, and with increasing frequency. A tool you’d started to take for granted, something you’d quietly woven into your process, turns out to have been in a probationary
The intelligence revolution won’t be televised — it will be automated over a longer arcIf you want to understand where AI is taking us, stop staring at the future. Look back about 150 years.Highland Park — the birth of the modern assembly line at Ford Motor Company.The Industrial Revolution didn’t j
