Designers have spent years saying they would do better work if the organisation got out of the way. Not always in those exact words, obviously. It usually comes out as something more reasonable: we...
This article is a sponsored by MacPaw The phrase “artificial intelligence” has many excited, especially those in tech. But for those of us in creative fields like digital art and design, AI can be...
How a feature goes from idea to prototype to shipped For years, there’s been this really popular Chrome extension for adding a table of contents to your Medium stories. Props to Vinicius De Antoni...
React Server Components don’t send HTML to your browser. They don’t send JSON either. When a server component renders, what actually travels over the wire is a custom streaming protocol called Flight...
We’ve all heard of the sacred rule in modern web development, the rule never to be broken. The rule of “Never block the main thread.” You almost can’t miss it as a web developer; it’s in almost every...
Many companies silently assume that everybody wants more AI in their lives. That people are craving new AI features , new AI products, new AI workflows — that would all magically replace all existing...
When a branding project fails, it usually happens long before the logo stage: in the strategy phase, when words like “modern,” “trustworthy,” “premium,” “friendly,” and “disruptive” are left...
Mental health applications keep facing a continuing, measurable crisis: many people stop using them quickly. The data is stark: almost 95% of users who open the app on day 1 abandon the app by day 30...
This article is a sponsored by Kirki For years, WordPress users have relied on traditional page builders to create websites without writing code. While these builders made web design more accessible,...
We often hear about shiny new tools that change everything (yet again). But in practice, most people don’t need more tools to deal with in their daily lives. What we actually need are better...
The design community has entered a period of conversational tunnel vision. Because Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on dialogue, the industry has collectively decided that the chat bubble is...
This article is a sponsored by Level Access We know that right now, a senior engineer is shipping a checkout flow they “built” in a single afternoon. AI assistant does the heavy lifting, happy path...
The scent of rain after a hot day, watching the moon rise on a summer night’s sky, or going for a swim in a nearby lake — July is full of small, distinctive moments that can quietly spark new...
In 2024, an Air Canada customer asked a chatbot about bereavement fares. The bot confidently gave him a refund policy that didn’t exist. The airline refused to honor it. A tribunal ruled in the...
For decades, science fiction has cushioned us with the idea that the “android revolution” was a distant fantasy. But the reality is unfolding rapidly. As the line between human and machine blurs, we...