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AI-first?

Tech buzzwords are so snazzy! Move fast and break things, machine learning, internet of things, big data, blockchain, pivot to video! All of them a...

June 12, 2025

UX court

Let me paint a picture for you. A team is well into the inner depths of a project. The large brush strokes of the concept have been put down, an el...

June 18, 2024

Stop testing design candidates

Testing potential candidates sounds like one of those fun ideas a designer came up with while slamming work beers. But it isn’t. File it away with ...

September 11, 2020

Would you hire me?

Please consider the following resumes for future employment at your tech company

July 31, 2020

No Mr. Spool, not everyone is a designer

Jared Spool, is a professional designer who has made a living designing software and running workshops where he teaches design thinking. I like Jar...

September 10, 2019

The Female Dick Pic

Online dating is by and large a mess. For all intents and purposes, it’s a blind date. Sure you can see what they look like, where they went to sch...

February 15, 2019

Android 9 and the death of design

I downloaded the Android 9 update and realized fairly quickly that it kinda sucks. Longtime, loyal Google fans like me might be starting to wonder ...

August 28, 2018

Adobe products are a nightmare

Adobe approaches design the way Stephen Miller approaches D. C. area prostitutes, with insidious rage and murderous intent.

June 22, 2018

Brutalism

A critique of the brutalist design trend in web design

October 23, 2017

Design + Crime

What criminals can teach us about design thinking

February 07, 2014