AI is making it easy to recreate professional tools. I suspect there’s a bigger opportunity being overlooked.Editing in PhotoCraftOctober saw the release of PhotoCraft, an open-source Photoshop clone built with AI that had a similar capability set, but...
As the all-you-can-eat AI era is ending, UX designers must adapt to a new realitySince the democratization of AI, roughly by the end of 2022, companies sold access to their products for less than it costs them to run.That didn’t last long.Now, to try the...
Throne Room Politics: Inside Designers Obsession with BathroomsHow one close look at everyday bathroom flaw will permeantly ruin your routine.I paused, leaving the bathroom. Something strange was happening, but what was it?There was a woman in a wheelchair...
In-System Design 3/3A practical guide for designers: why I stopped choosing between canvas and code, and how one prototype travels both ways.For designers who know Figma well and have never written production code, and for the design system teams around...
In-System DesignWhy builders hand you a lookalike, what has to exist before an agent can use your components, and the MCP setup I use.Prototyping in code is what designers do now, at least according to LinkedIn. I tried it, and after two days I wanted to...
How a machine I didn’t trust taught me to be bad at things again.Monet’s Impression Sunrise would not have existed if someone hadn’t invented the right medium (Source)I was a skeptic.Let the record show, I too, was against it.When Ted Chiang wrote in The...