They keep arriving with open arms and leaving with your wallet. That’s not an accident. It’s a playbook.

Designers are struggling to slow teams down for research. Here’s what helps.

AI-designed experiences are failing real people. The designer, the PM, the vendor, and the company are all pointing somewhere else.

Trying to define Design Engineering today, and why the confusion around it turned out to matter.

If you want to put AI adoption at risk, ignore the design debt at your own peril

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.

What we lost when design became mainly UI, and what AI gives us the chance to reclaim

On judgement, context, and why AI makes taste more important, not less.

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Democratisation, panic, quality collapse, then new norms emerging. This isn’t new terrain.

Antitrust regulation, the birth of “Silicon Valley” and approaching the limits of Moore’s law

Something has shifted in the way the design field operates, and I think most of us can sense it even if we haven’t yet found the words or…

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.