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Now that we're here, where do we go?
August 18, 2025
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6 min read
August 11, 2025
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5 min read

It’s Speculation, All The Way Down

You'll see it too, when you start glazing over.
August 4, 2025
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7 min read

The Art of Duck Alignment

Managing tasks on your own timeline, when some things simply won't wait.
July 31, 2025
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2 min read

July Linkdump

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for July 2025.
July 28, 2025
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5 min read

What is Design Intent?

Why being deliberate with your design choices matter.
July 21, 2025
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4 min read

Performance Anxiety

Design's silent killer (of ideas).
July 14, 2025
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6 min read

Clap For Your Damn Self

Create something onto which others can base their assumptions. Nobody will do it for you.
July 7, 2025
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7 min read

Saying It’s Sustainable Doesn’t Make It So

If you want to design for sustainability, you can't just keep doing what you've always done.
July 3, 2025
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3 min read

June Linkdump

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for June 2025.
June 30, 2025
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4 min read

Time to Build

When you have time; build.
June 23, 2025
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6 min read

Did You Stop to Ask Why?

Become better informed, make better decisions, and take more effective action.
June 16, 2025
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6 min read

There’s No Such Thing As User Error

Only usability error.
June 9, 2025
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5 min read

Minimalism, Maximalism, Optimalism

Wait, optimalism?
June 2, 2025
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6 min read

Agnostica Operatio

What happens if what you depend on vanished tomorrow?
June 1, 2025
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2 min read

May Linkdump

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for May 2025.
May 26, 2025
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7 min read

Can We Talk About io?

Is io to Open AI what frog Was To Apple?
May 21, 2025
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5 min read

Want To Learn Something?

Lincoln's one-step guide to self-reliance
May 14, 2025
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1 min read

Earflo @ Futureproof

Exhibition presented by RMIT & (Redacted). Come and have a look-see.
May 12, 2025
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7 min read

Design Rides a Trojan Horse

Perhaps the way to value design is by sneaking it in as something else.
May 5, 2025
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6 min read

Designing For Murphy’s Law

How an innocuous design decision can cost a user thousands of dollars.
May 2, 2025
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3 min read

April Linkdump

A collection of interesting design, design-adjacent, and unrelated links for April 2025.
April 28, 2025
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5 min read

Designing By Feel

Despite all the structure and process that can go along with design, sometimes it's ok to go on feels alone.
April 21, 2025
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5 min read

Mo Features, Mo Problems.

Just because the product is slapping you on the wrist, doesn't mean it's your fault.
April 14, 2025
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9 min read

AI for Designers – What’s Now and What’s Next?

Post-hype, what is AI doing for and to designers?
April 8, 2025
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1 min read

lincolnblack.cc is now lincolnblack.com

What goes around, comes around.
April 7, 2025
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3 min read

Housekeeping

Simplifying and streamlining.
March 31, 2025
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7 min read

Bereft of All Common Sense

Improving quality of life means letting users be human
March 24, 2025
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5 min read

A Criticism-powered Jetpack

How learning to parse criticism improves the design and designer
March 17, 2025
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6 min read

Competence vs. Competent

Being competent is more than just how good you are at the task at hand
March 10, 2025
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8 min read

Keyshot For Solidworks: A Retrospective

How to Import Meshes and Make Better Decisions for Self-Reliance
March 3, 2025
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3 min read

Introducing: Titan Medical

Something big this way comes.

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