Most AI output has a bland sameness, but that also sounds like a lot of contemporary graphic design. Is AI a chance to break free?

The fundamental design challenge, then, is not just about creating useful software. It’s about designing for ephemerality.

Seemingly conscious AI is coming.

Current AI interfaces lull us into thinking we’re talking to something that can make meaningful judgments about what’s valuable.

Simple is the opposite of complex, where easy is something that’s familiar to us. Different things. Especially in software.

A designer’s search for meaning in a world that's hyper-focused on productivity.

Even if we manage to snap out of the AI bubble, we are never going to get these years back.

Gardens are so slow-moving that they’re anchored in our past choices, and don’t represent our current knowledge or skills.

How does generative creation influence our creative processes?

Why it can be hard to believe that people get work done using these tools.

A vital shift is underway in software development, one that redefines how we build, but also who we are as developers.

If we were still in the zero-interest-rates era, maybe I would have increasingly baroque conditions about what job I’m willing to accept.

On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions.

AI might be a trillion billion balloons filled with confetti.

For AI, the level of impact is determined by the amount of mastery needed to make an impactful product.

The heroic systems required to bring all the elements of our lives together are invisible to many people.

Being high potential in tech careers comes with a real stress of not really enjoying your present.

This is not a precise theory, but man, what do we do even if the outline is true?

Just like living a healthy life means paying attention to what we eat and how we move, we'll need to be more mindful of when we decide to use AI.

There is a widespread belief in tech circles that AI is a bigger opportunity than the web itself.