How agentic interfaces are changing what designers control, from interactions to agency, orchestration and attention.Agentic canvas can now brings context from across tools into one place, then acts on it without needing step by step instructions....
The closed system of software engineering, where the complexity of the code acted as both a wall and a gatekeeper.AI didn’t touch what engineers actually know. It ended their power to be the only ones who could say what was possible.When I started out as an...
The operator dwarfed by the machine that generates his future for him. The film’s real subject was never the screen.Steven Spielberg’s Precogs Are The Sharpest Portrait Of Generative AI Anyone Drew Before It Arrived — Fluent, Confident, Acting On Their Own,...
One description, four renderers. That is the whole argument in a picture.Every assistant draws its own way, and the bill lands on the people who already maintain your button component. This is a call to arms to fix this.Connecting was the easy part and the...
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....