A new medium is here, or perhaps something more akin to a new fundamental force of nature.

An entire generation of designers climbed the ladder. A third say it got better. A third say it got worse. A third aren’t sure.

How direct interaction is being replaced by hidden automation and why tactile control matters.

How AI turns translation into runtime and why preserving intent between human ambiguity and machine precision is now the real craft.

Free browser-based ASCII wireframe editor. Design UI mockups, lo-fi prototypes, and text diagrams with drag-and-drop components.

On friction, patience, and planting trees.

How to choose between modals and pages, when to avoid modals, and how to determine the right level of interruption or navigation.

A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection.

A rare, honest roadmap through the industry’s noise.

How ignoring physical limits turns an ambitious roadmap into a collective illusion.

What happens when you treat an AI as a participant in its own cognitive architecture.

Navigating ambiguity, advocating for humans in systems optimised for efficiency, and solving their problems through thoughtful design.

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

A design philosophy for the age of AI. No intermediary. No translation layer. No friction. From intent to artifact, directly.

It’s time to retire that icon wrapper component.

Most of us will experience anxiety at some point, sometimes triggered by a stressful moment, other times as a chronic condition.

The web is a material. Like wood, it has a grain. You can work with it or fight against it.

Your possessions came alive. Now they won’t stop talking.

A collection of details that make your interfaces feel better.

Human skills in anticipatory design and user flows are crucial to combat the ‘uncanny valley’ of AI UX.