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Searching for results.The tenor saxophonist.”* The absence of a house style wasn’t a failure of management. It was the whole point. Each designer’s background — painter, photographer, sign-maker’s son — shows up directly in the work, because…
Highest quality output: “Approach this as a staff engineer who cares deeply about code quality, maintainability, and avoiding over-engineering. [Then your request.]” Or even more specifically: “Before writing code…
The most important figures in American design. Active as an architect, a product and exhibition designer and a writer, he was a leading voice in the discourse on design and architecture over several decades. “The…
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Engine, where I encountered professional design being practiced for the first time in my career. Design was also nested in close collaboration with engineering, product management, and business. I knew it was the right…
I built a career in design for a simple reason: I love to make things. There is a specific, quiet joy in the intersection of a big idea and meticulous craftsmanship. For a long time, I treated this path as a sort of…
And rewarded online, and that it’s our responsibility to teach it better. The book blends philosophy, ethics, and a parent’s mindset to reframe an intimidating topic in a surprisingly human way. Thought-provoking…
Sketch from Charles or Ray (the Eames Archive intentionally doesn’t disclose the artist) from a trip abroad. Charles’ proposal letter asking Ray to marry him, even though he’s broke. Polaroids from Charles and Ray’s…
Morality, and fulfilling our potential. This model can help us understand design goals. We could aim to satisfy only the bottom three layers—function, reliability, usability—but real fulfillment is found at the top…
In general, and when I first met, um, read I think Danella Meadow's book on systems, um, systems thinking, it was like, oh, okay, these two things completely make sense if you're, you know, if you, um. If you extract…
Our world doesn’t quite know what to do with multidisciplinary thinkers. It can’t find the right category for us. Eli and I are exactly those kinds of people — we have wide-ranging interests, we like the big picture…
Points or burndown charts, even development velocity charts — let alone, God forbid, design integrity — good luck, right? Because they’re stack ranking by ROI. And you’re in there being like, let me explain to you why…
It’s easy to feel like a victim of workplace dysfunctionality. But nobody likes a victim. Even CEOs don’t have complete agency over the workplace. Companies operate on social contracts that may be guided by executives…
A few years ago, before the term “vibe coding” was coined by Andrej Karpathy, I created a “Design Better Radio” using ChatGPT to make a simple CSS/JavaScript/HTML app. 1 The idea was to make a little web-based player…
The designer Stefan Sagmeister isn’t known for being subtle. A poster he created in 1999, for an AIGA lecture he delivered in Detroit, was carved with an X-acto blade into his chest and torso . One prominent feature was…
Illustration by Luis Mendo A few months ago, I was on a flight to San Diego, to visit my parents. It was my dad’s birthday in a few days, and mine shortly after. He was in hospice, so I knew it was probably the last…
As metaphor when we spoke with him last year to describe what generative AI is doing to software. “So now we’re in this Cambrian Explosion of sorts where there are just so many new models and capabilities and apps and…
Condemnation of the text box, but instead a moment of recognition of priors and an act of curiosity and bravery. It makes me want to be just as brave. To design for transformation at every level. Moments of Noticing…
For selling their products. We're building a global infrastructure for them to share their knowledge . We guide them on pricing looking at the global market and to how to factor in their time, materials, and studio…
My creative exploration. It features a stacked plot of radio signals from a pulsar star. Boing Boing has the backstory. The idea of data, space, and digital and analog colliding was the starting point for my design. I…
But this is my first time re-reading Endymion, which explores themes that seem very relevant right now. It’s set in the far future, and explores what forms AGI might take, and what happens when technologies have their…
Turn It Over This week on the show: Aaron Draplin , founder of Draplin Design Co ., on origin stories, junk stores, and the kind of generosity that never makes it into a design portfolio. Listen to the episode Aaron…
Help teams think together. The result is that everyone is accelerating in their own direction, and collaboration is quietly eroding. Jess Holbrook , who leads UX research across Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, and Edge…
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