How “Thinking” + “Designing” need to be practiced outside AI.

And why history repeats itself over and over again.

How to build empathy with users you struggle to understand

Great ideas arrive on their own time. The design stroll is an easy framework for capturing them when they do.

My shifting view of creativity shows it grows from slow, deliberate practice, experimenting, failing, refining, not from instant results.

AI didn’t create the craft crisis in design — it exposed the technical literacy gap that’s been eroding strategic influence for over a…

The improv theater guide to AI design

The eternal challenge of B2B Design, and how reframes can help

What we can learn from Linear about trusting judgement without ignoring evidence

Domain knowledge is one of the most valuable skills designers can have

Stay relevant by honing your intuition, not your process

The most powerful communication happens before language. And there are psychoneurological reasons.

Exploration of the essence of what we do and how we do it

How to gain influence when your org doesn’t prioritize designers

With LLMs, we have built the peak of synthetic cognition without the base — and the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff shows us what that costs.

The one question you always need to keep in mind for B2B projects