Latest in: design philosophy
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.
July 28, 2025
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5 min read

What is Design Intent?

Why being deliberate with your design choices matter.
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 9, 2025
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5 min read

Minimalism, Maximalism, Optimalism

Wait, optimalism?
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?
March 24, 2025
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5 min read

A Criticism-powered Jetpack

How learning to parse criticism improves the design and designer
February 24, 2025
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5 min read

The Halo in the Holistic

To have a great design, first you need a good one.
February 17, 2025
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6 min read

The Devil in the Details

How attention to detail turns good design into great design.
February 3, 2025
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6 min read

Invisible

How can we expect people to care about design when they don't even see it?
December 16, 2024
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6 min read

Have You Got Taste?

What is taste in a world of tasteless hype? And importantly, what do we do about it?
December 9, 2024
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5 min read

How Much Design Gets Lost In Realisation?

How do the tools we use change our designs as they exit our heads?
October 7, 2024
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5 min read

Learning Design Skills

The skills we want to learn as designers are usually not the ones we need.
September 9, 2024
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5 min read

Get Obsessed

How obsessions can solve your design problems.
August 5, 2024
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Ideation and Being Human

What has boredom and failure ever done for us?
July 29, 2024
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5 min read

Punk Design: An Immune Response.

What might post-AI art and design look like?
July 8, 2024
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5 min read

Have You Got A Hangover?

#noregrats
June 10, 2024
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3 min read

Closure

When you look at something long enough, you stop seeing the gaps.
April 29, 2024
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5 min read

What Gets You Up In The Morning?

Stick or carrot?
April 22, 2024
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When Does A Designer Become A Reverse-Centaur?

Do we control the tools we use as designers? Or do they control us?
March 25, 2024
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Learning By Doing

There is only so much you can achieve by thinking and planning and refining. It's often much better to start, and learn by doing.
March 11, 2024
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5 min read

Purity of Purpose

Everywhere you look the products we use are crappier than ever because they've lost the part that made them good in the first place.
February 5, 2024
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6 min read

Have We Reached Peak Obround?

Obround: noun. (geometry) A shape consisting of two semicircles connected by parallel lines tangent to their endpoints.

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