Are we cut off from the outer world, trapped alone in our personal experience?

Is there a need for designers to up their skills and knowledge in the new industrial revolution?

Visual symbols are powerful ways to make social constructs —from fashion to government— feel legitimate, trustworthy, and familiar.

On design systems and this idea of “a source of truth.” Whose sources, and whose truths?

Some software interfaces are windows into collections of features.

Design has become intertwined with the most harmful dynamics of the social web.

I remember the first time I opened Microsoft Paint and created something on a computer.

Who are the humans and who are the bots? Human authentication, while preserving privacy, and removing anonymity is the answer.

It is tempting to build abstractions so developers have to do less and build more.

How returning to the craft taught me to be a better leader.

In 1995, I got my first PC with Windows 95 and my first web browser, unbeknownst to me at the time, was Internet Explorer 1.0.

I haven’t signed to any major web labels.

The importance of revisiting past decisions. Especially when it comes to the web.

Design Thinking is dead yet there it is, smeared all over LinkedIn, peeking out from job descriptions and lurking in resumés.

Exploring the role – and discipline – of design in a world where no one is a "user".

We’re seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again.

A short illustrated story about growing up online.

We have a skewed image of what we should be as developers. And more and more people get depressed and feel bad because of it.

It’s been five years since I’ve created myself an actual, personal website.

So we’re stopped at the light. And I say, “Hey, Ben. What color is the light?” And he says, “It’s green.”