Interface: on connection, multi-modality, and self-expression
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
“Design tools come and go. People's habits evolve. New devices are born. The way we designed interfaces five years ago is very different from how we do it now. The only common thread in our work is understanding people. Everything else is just a vehicle for that.”
Interface: on connection, multi-modality, and self-expression →
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Editor picks
The design of shallow thinking →
How the internet’s design choices rewired the way we think.Musk thinks UX and coding are the same →
Is there a divide between exact science and the humanities?Design is a conversation →
Can we put the vibes aside and focus on what matters?
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Make me think
Seeing like a software company →
“Thinking in terms of legibility and illegibility explains so many of the things that are confusing about large software companies. It explains why companies do many things that seem obviously counter-productive, why the rules in practice are so often out of sync with the rules as written, and why companies are surprisingly willing to tolerate rule-breaking in some contexts.”The melancholy of history rhyming →
“Even many of the critics have completely integrated “AI” propaganda and myth-making into their worldview, assuming Large Language Model progress as inevitable, blinding them to the inherent weaknesses of the tech, and leading them to promote “careful” adoption of a tech whose variability is inherently destructive to productivity, reliability, and quality.”I am an AI hater →
“But I am more than a critic: I am a hater. I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”
Little gems this week
What designers can learn from the first interface—the human face →
The first 30 seconds: how to show value in AI product onboarding →
The middle-class burden of digital products →
Tools and resources
Digital twin modeling →
A vision of an AI future with UX at the helm.Vibe design for designers →
Tips from months of experimentation & AI transformation.OKLCH with ChatGPT-5 →
A universally accessible color triad.
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