Why I’m Giving Up My Design Title—And What That Says About The Future of Design — Suff Syed
Suff Syed, former Head of Product Design, announces his shift to a technical role, arguing that design has been commoditized in the AI era while technical depth is now where innovation happens. He argues design has become baseline, while innovation now lies in systems, agents, and orchestration. The
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Features like avatars look trivial in products with user profiles, but most times, they are not. (Is anything actually trivial?). It’s even more interesting, as with Engage, when users can’t uploa...
Explaining Code using ASCII Art – Embedded in Academia
This piece is about pictures drawn using a text character set and then embedded in source code. I love these! The other day I asked around on Twitter for more examples and the responses far exceeded expectations (thanks everyone!). There are a ton of great examples in the thread; here I’ve categorized a few of them. Click on images go to the repositories.
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.
I first came across this term when I was browsing the subreddits for adhd and autistic women. After reading more about it I realised belatedly (in my 40s) that I have been coping with this my entire life. Strangely just finding a name to something formerly ambiguous can bring so much clarity and comfort, along...