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Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world Why design isn’t found in a prompt, but in toil and the creator’s “thinking hand.” Lucasfilm and the Art of the Matte Painting For close to …
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Recently, I was working on a problem. It was some flow that wasn’t really working, and I did what I now often do: I opened Claude and started talking. Not with a clear prompt, really. More like…
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Prompt is not interface, UI patterns that won’t survive, how to make Claude follow your design system Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The most advanced artificial …
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Discovery is the work AI gives back Productivity is the floor of AI’s value, not the ceiling. New McKinsey research on where the durable returns actually live, and what that means for teams …
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The left-handed rope On a sacred design pattern, and the long reach of small reversals On Ishigaki Island, where I live, the rope you hang at the entrance of a sacred grove is twisted in the opposite …
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Everything I know about AI, I learned from a genie A content designer's guide to not wasting your wishes on something stupid I was a lucky child. My parents and grandparents spent hours reading and …
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How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma 4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds. Claude Code can now write directly …
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Designing data-intensive applications — advice for interaction designers The things on the screen — numbers, tables, graphs, forms, dashboards — are just two-dimensional projections of a …
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The prompt is not an interface Why AI sent us back to the command line — On direct manipulation, visual intent, and the regression of AI tooling. “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and …
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Users own the present. You own the future. Users know their day. They don’t know your roadmap. Why smart users give convincing wrong answers, and how to do research that opens product space. A few …
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The first taste of Joy How a few fries, a piece of chicken, and a beginner’s mind became my first lesson in Joyful Design. This is the story of my first advertising campaign, guided by generous …
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We built this. Now we own it. The dark side of ‘user-friendly’ AI. There is a teenager in Florida who is no longer alive. He had spent months talking to a chatbot modelled on a Game of Thrones …