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alearningaday.blog

Everything is television

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.

vsanchezgomez.substack.com

We’ve all bought into technosolutionism, but we can opt out

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

world.hey.com

When design drives behavior

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.

drobinin.com

Designing software for things that rot

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

frankchimero.com

Beyond the machine

Frank Chimero is back again with one of the most spectactular pieces of design writing I've read in a while.

anildash.com

The majority AI view

We're in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned.

yusufaytas.com

Most of what we call progress

Reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.

rosswintle.uk

Software can be finished

You probably don’t want to build “finished software”. But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?

uxdesign.cc

The “£532,000” dot job

Why did a tiny logo change cost GOV.UK so much?

phirephoenix.com

Choosing friction

Convenience is all destination and no journey.

suffsyed.com

Designers have to move from the surface to the substrate

Designers once controlled 85% of UX through UI and interactions. Now, with intelligence moving beneath the surface, that control has collapsed to 5%.

mechanicalsurvival.com

Team dynamics after AI

So much of the discourse around AI assumes an inevitability to adoption, seeing quality as the only barrier to that.

bharath.sh

Vercel vs Cloudflare: two philosophies of building for developers

Neutral observations on the Vercel vs Cloudflare race to win the edge and developer mindshare.

suffsyed.com

Designers should look to Demis Hassabis, not Jony Ive

The future of design will still be shaped—just not by designers like Jony Ive.

itsnicethat.com

Light and shade: exploring creativity’s AI conundrum

A series interrogating the challenges and opportunities at the heart of the AI-creative conversation.

blog.nilenso.com

The common sense unit of work

What if we were to model a typical software development lifecycle in code?

hidde.blog

The writer, the text and the audience

Meaning in art comes from more than the artifact.

idiallo.com

The modern trap

The word modern has become the cure-all solution, promising to solve not just our immediate problems, but somehow prevent future ones entirely.

joincolossus.com

AI will not make you rich

The disruption is real. It’s also predictable.

geoffreylitt.com

AI as teleportation

Here’s a thought experiment for pondering the effects AI might have on society: What if we invented teleportation?