Why design education must reconsider the kind of student it imagines.Photo by shraga kopstein on UnsplashFor decades, design offered artistically inclined students an appealing compromise. They could pursue a practical career without giving up creativity....
A conversation with Whitney Hess, on careers, whispers, and where to plant yourselfPhoto by Bob Bowie on UnsplashSome questions sound administrative but are not, and “why do you want to switch jobs?” turns out to be one of them. I asked it on a mentoring...
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Interface design has known this for decades. It’s baked into one of the oldest usability heuristics in the field — Jakob Nielsen’s sixth, recognition rather than recall, which asks designers to...
The signals I see today point to more adaptive interfaces, more delegated actions, and a larger responsibility for designers to define the limitsFrom fixed interfaces to adaptive systems: UX increasingly defines how software interprets, responds, and acts....
A look into design as a craft through the lens of neuroqueering.Illustration by Kristina Gushcheva-KeippiläI remember reading Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality at a strange threshold: in my mid-twenties, a few years into design as a profession, still in...
How AI, metrics, and career anxiety are reshaping designAn endless staircase for endless metrics. Planning a linear ten-year ascent assumes the steps will remain stable. When corporate staircases twist into unpredictable loops, real career resilience comes...