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Designing user interfaces for complicated systems.

The UI reflects the tasks you ask of your user.

Minor inconsistencies and overly generic responses that frequently mar AI's output.

Robot Juice

Robot, meet robot.

Robots all the way down, baby.

The endless ride: the attention economy.

Too much of everything.

We spent $30 million to create the world's most optimal breaded chicken experience.

Chicken tenders are breaded by robots.

Unveiling the morality crisis in the age of AI.

Capitalism has no clothes.

What the title says.

The UX of Crypto Sucks

A safe critique stemming from uncertainty about providing more comprehensive feedback.

Drop-Shadow Comments: A Drop-Dead Sign

Tap into the web's core philosophy of open, intuitive access.

Everything should be a website.

Berry's Law

Visibility is everything in design.

If your work isn't for sale in a store, in a museum, or on a website, it doesn’t exist.

Measuring a player's contribution compared to a "replacement-level" player.

Applying Sports Metrics to Startup Talent Evaluation

Investing in scaling without addressing internal flaws amplifies inefficiencies.

The Cost of Scaling: Improving Before Expanding

A heuristic for organizing and presenting your data.

Simplifying List Management: The Few-Some-Many Heuristic

Early commitment to an unorthodox name reflects the founders' long-term vision, passion, and courage.

Quirky Brand Naming: Timing is Everything

Centralized computing poses a risk to serendipitous discovery.

Preserving Discovery

Promoting inclusivity and empathy, counterbalancing impersonal global solutions, and enriching our collective human experience.

Solving Problems at Human Scale

Demystifying the elusive 'magic' in product design.

Crafting Magic in Product Design

The art of balancing innovation and agility.

Navigating Application Surface Area

The future of long-form content creation.

Dictation Event Horizon

A unique experience for passionate fans will justify the investment.

Sports Driving VR Adoption

It delivers the promise science fiction describes.

Apple Vision Pro: "Uh oh."

AI shifts software from low-entropy precision to high-entropy creativity.

Embracing Digital Entropy

Crafting a resilient design is a process of patience and precision.

Layers of fidelity.

Web development is complex, but embracing simplicity leads to resilient and timeless web experiences that are accessible and relevant.

Why is the web so damn complicated?

Call 878-PATTERN!

Bad Design Hotline

Turning food illness into an Orson Welles saga.

Never waste an opportunity offered by a good crisis.

Forgetting curates attention.

Forgetting is a feature.

Digital consumption today is like fast food: quick and engaging but not always healthy.

The slow web.

A refreshing approach to creativity.

Design Snacks

Web usability is always about returning to basics.

Put important things first.

Commerce has evolved from conversations to industrial standardization and now back to conversations.

Conversations as Commerce

POSE advocates for content ownership by creating on your own platform and syndicating elsewhere.

Post Once, Syndicate Elsewhere

Actively develop small AI apps to understand their potential and become AI literate.

Build your own AI

Tragedy of the Commons affects virtual spaces too, leading to overuse and misuse on open platforms like Twitter, Facebook.

Tragedy of the Commons: Online Communities

Optimal code remains unwritten, mirroring how the best UI feels invisible.

Write Less Software