How do we make our digital gardens full of life?

On our relationship to the tools that shape us, how machine intelligence understands, and the value in the human capacity for feeling.

How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back

Ah yes, this old chestnut. It pops up as reliably as daffodils in early spring.

Whenever I’m in a room without a whiteboard I feel trapped.

How throughout history, increasing computing capability has lead to increasing burden on users.

2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life.

Apple doesn’t need developers.

My older kiddo and I watched a short documentary about artist and engineer Peter Vogel this morning.

How to remain relevant amid pervasive change.

A List Apart founder and web design OG Zeldman ponders the moments of inspiration.

The idea I am coming to value most in my professional life is the feeling of “play”.

Embracing ambiguity as a superpower.

In this article I’ll be using Sit. as an excuse to talk about some wider ideas

In a world of influencer-peddled illusion, we need to normalize being normal.

And why is it designers?

There’s something very off with the user-centeredness of design.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

On subjectivity, gatekeeping, and the risk of leaving design industry terms like taste undefined.

You have the power, not Google.