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medium.com

Design at the speed of thought

That thrill of being a designer is back. Only this time, the friction isn’t technical — it’s cognitive.

jarango.com

Don’t let the drawings distract you: AI is not about the output

AI’s real value isn’t in generating flashy outputs; it’s in making sense of unstructured information to support better decisions.

metastable.org

Five things AI will not change

The dramatic diversity of opinions about AI tells us we truly and deeply do not know what’s going to happen next.

paulrobertlloyd.com

Bored of it

We're all bored of it. The pervasive, all encompassing nature of it. The inevitable, dehumanising consequence of it.

blog.scottlogic.com

AI’s biggest flaw? The blinking cursor problem

AI’s potential is immense, yet clunky user interfaces and a lack of discoverability are holding it back from seamless adoption.

shirleywu.studio

What killed innovation?

How interactive data visualization has gone from bold experimentation to polished, predictable formats.

kupajo.com

Stamina is a quiet advantage

The ability to sustain focused effort despite pain or discomfort (or to stay true to your values especially when it’s hard to do so).

bit.ly

Leadership over measureship

If you’ve ever had an app randomly interrupt your day to ask if you love it. That's measureship.

jenson.org

Design for a small planet

UX Design is going through its own “you cost too much” phase right now. How can we have our “Design for a Small Planet” shift?

polotek.net

The frontend treadmill

A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings.

datagubbe.se

Past and present futures of UI

Is there a real new paradigm around the corner? And is the desktop going to disappear?

wattenberger.com

Our interfaces have lost their senses

Recently, we've been too focused on fitting to the computer's shape, and not enough to our own bodies.

vsanchezgomez.substack.com

Why it’s so hard to align our work with our values

Many of us accept that what we do to earn money and what we do to benefit humanity must be separate activities.

vanschneider.com

One step forward, two steps backwards

We're essentially taking these crystal-clear images captured by the latest camera technology and intentionally degrading them.

whatever.scalzi.com

The billionaire boycott conundrum

With every attempted boycott, there is some backlash, and backlash to the backlash.

doc.cc

Our human habit of anthropomorphizing everything

Should we be humanizing AI?

benholliday.com

You are here… or they are here?

Technology gave us the Google Maps experience that says “You are here.” Modern maps put everyone at the centre of the world. That's dangeous.

christianheilmann.com

Nobody should be a “content creator”

Social media platforms don’t care about quality content – they care about interactions.

jagilley.github.io

I quit my FAANG job because it’ll be automated by the end of 2025

Taking a medium-term look at the market dynamics, I’m now convinced that my former job will be obsolete by the end of the year.

youtube.com

Death, and how tech forgot about mortality

How tech companies that safeguard our data are more likely to "die" before we do.