It’s incredibly valuable to make a design system available to all–no matter what the bean-counters say.

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too.

A reality check from leading researchers.

How factory tours connect people to how things are made, despite rising barriers.

Rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

On elevating craft through critical thinking.

How accelerating tech progress compresses the economic lives of objects, and what we lose when fewer things are built to last.

When people stop visiting websites directly, they're filtering content through an opaque system.

Two very different technologies whose relationship is complicated at best.

We used to use software; now software started to use us.

Software development is fundamentally a practice of problem-solving, and so, most of the work is done in your head.

AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it.

The shift in product design with the advent of AI and a potential generative experiential future.

Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.

How the cause for the global decline in intelligence could be attributed to the fact that we now get to carry this box in our pocket.

Dismantling a culture that idolizes privately owned tech as a method of social progress.

In some cases, design is what something looks like. In other cases, design is how it works. But the most interesting is when design changes behavior.

Why building for rot is nothing like building happy-path apps.