Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999
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“We have extraordinary capability and almost no shared conventions for handing it to people — no settled patterns, no agreed vocabulary (ambient, really? They’re just fancy Cron Jobs), half the tooling still being written as we use it, literally by the technology itself. The tools are remarkable; the ground under them is soft, shifting like a tech quicksand.
That isn’t a complaint. It’s an invitation.”
Designing for AI means designing like it’s 1999 →
94% say research matters. Only 27% act on it. →
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Editor picks
Designing locality, by redrawing the lines →
On Bruno Munari, an old Buddhist phrase, and an empty field.7 things that Vibe Design can’t replicate →
Vibe design with intention, eyes open.We haven’t lost the battle for empathy. Have we? →
A meditation on presence.
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Mechanical pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us →
Make me think
When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing →
“Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?”Cynicism is a luxury; hope is a necessity →
“A working system has that strange quality: it disappears. We notice the plumbing only when it leaks, the power only when it fails, the road only when it is closed. Attention is drawn to friction—to the broken and the missing—and slides off whatever is quietly doing its job.”The orchestration tax is you →
“Starting more agents is easy now. However, more agents running doesn’t mean more of you available—your cognitive bandwidth doesn’t parallelize. (…) Orchestration tax is basically the price you pay for forgetting this and the only real fix is to start architecting your own attention like you architect any concurrent system.”
Little gems this week
The book cover as a relational object →
You are no longer the user. You are the principal. →
Is hot coral a feature or a liability? A closer look at your bank card →
Tools and resources
Designing how designers master AI →
Personal, divergent, and never finished.The permalink problem in AI chat →
AI chat made the conversation ephemeral.AI and cognitive delegation →
The hidden cost of AI that works too well.
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