How to make sense of AI
Keeping up with a fast changing, revolutionary technology can seem scary. Here are some ruthless guidelines to make sense of it effectively.
Friday03/20
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Elizabeth’s declassified guide to product design
A rare, honest roadmap through the industry’s noise.
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Judgment and creativity are all you need
Why senior leadership hinges on decision-making quality over raw output.
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AI Particle Simulator
Generate and publish massive 3D particle swarms with custom AI logic.
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Thursday03/19
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Capacity is the roadmap
How ignoring physical limits turns an ambitious roadmap into a collective illusion.
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Matchbook Book
A vast collection of miniature windows into the graphic sensibilities of a former era.
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How do you want to remember?
What happens when you treat an AI as a participant in its own cognitive architecture.
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Human strategy in an AI-accelerated workflow
Navigating ambiguity, advocating for humans in systems optimised for efficiency, and solving their problems through thoughtful design.
Wednesday03/18
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The 49MB web page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
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Zero-vector design
A design philosophy for the age of AI. No intermediary. No translation layer. No friction. From intent to artifact, directly.
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Soon owning will be impossible
It‘s maybe time to think about the theoretical limits of the current economic system (which could surprisingly soon become very practical).
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Designing for people with anxiety
Most of us will experience anxiety at some point, sometimes triggered by a stressful moment, other times as a chronic condition.
Tuesday03/17
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Why designing in code makes you a better designer
The web is a material. Like wood, it has a grain. You can work with it or fight against it.
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The Anthropic Institute
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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The two worlds of programming
Why developers who make the same observations about LLMs come to opposite conclusions.
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Monday03/16
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Details that make interfaces feel better
A collection of details that make your interfaces feel better.
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What do coders do after AI?
It's not so simple as "bosses are firing coders now that AI can write code".
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Sizing chaos
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women.
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Every company is a startup now
Large companies spent years rewarding the representation of work over the work itself. In the AI era, that has led to a crisis.
Friday03/13
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Why AI-generated UX still feels off
Human skills in anticipatory design and user flows are crucial to combat the ‘uncanny valley’ of AI UX.
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Cache Monet
An exploration into the serendipitous collisions that occur between two randomly generated arrays.
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Statistical significance isn’t the same as practical significance
Determining whether something is worth acting on.
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European Tech Map
Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are built with GDPR in mind, and store data in Europe.
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New habits for tech writers in the age of LLMs
Any LLM can put together plausible docs with some context and a simple prompt.
Thursday03/12
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Designing AI experiences people actually use
AI doesn’t just add intelligence — it redistributes it. Here’s how that shift can make or break a product.
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Terminal Trove
A comprehensive collection of terminal tools with advanced search and filters.
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The evolution of Mac app window corners
Is “a softer feel and elegant concentricity” a nonsense?
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Anatomy of a CSS phone mockup
A step-by-step walkthrough of how a realistic iPhone frame is built from scratch.