Why Designers Are the New Bureaucrats
There was a time when design meant making something—actually making something. You’d open Photoshop (or, if you’re older, Illustrator 9), throw…
Interfaces Are Too Polite: The Case for Assertive UX
In the race to make digital products “friendly,” we’ve made them timid. Apps apologize for every notification, websites whisper their…
Blogging Is Dead. Long Live the Blog.
Let’s say it out loud: blogging, as we once knew it, is dead. That romantic era of handcrafted posts, quirky sidebars, and…
The Death of Ownership in Web Design — and Everything Else
There was a time when being a designer — or honestly, just being a consumer — meant owning the tools…
The Evolution of Web Development: From Static Pages to AI-Driven Experiences
Web development has always been a strange cocktail of creativity, technology, and a bit of chaos. In its earliest days, it…
Why Web Design Must Finally Break Free from Its Graphic Design Roots
Web design has always been haunted by its graphic design roots. In the early days, we didn’t know what we were…
Ethical Defaults: Why Designers Must Stop Hiding Behind Settings
Let’s cut to the chase: if your product requires users to dig through labyrinthine settings just to stop you from…
Enshittification by Design: Why Every Interface Turns Against You
Every great product starts like a love story. You fall for it fast. It’s clean. It’s simple. It just gets you….
Dark Mode Is the New Comic Sans (And You Know It)
Somewhere along the way, dark mode stopped being a thoughtful accessibility option and became a design religion. In fact our obsession…
Evergreen Web Design Is a Lie (But Maybe That’s Okay)
Once upon a time, in the golden age of blogrolls and PSD mockups, web designers whispered of a magical concept: evergreen…
The Coming War of AI Browsers: Why the Web Will Never Be the Same Again
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the one piece of software you use every single day but rarely think about—the…
Feedback Fatigue: Why AI Will Stop Asking for Your Opinion
Let’s talk about the ancient art of the thumbs-up and thumbs-down — once the sacred, clumsy handshake between user and…
The AI Avalanche: Are We Drowning in Our Own Creation?
Every week—no, every day—there’s a new AI tool. A new update. A new plugin. A new model that claims to…
The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?
Let’s be honest: the designer-developer handoff was never really “working”—at best, it limped along with annotated PDFs and passive-aggressive Figma comments….
Are Closed Ecosystems Like Apple’s a Necessary Evil?
The walled garden. The fortress of control. The golden handcuffs. Whatever you want to call it, closed ecosystems like Apple’s…
Intent-Based UI Is Replacing Navigation—Are We Designing Ourselves Out of the Interface?
We spent decades perfecting the art of navigation: breadcrumbs, sidebars, hamburger menus, sticky headers, site maps. We crafted taxonomies and…
Designing for Dribbble Killed Real Web Creativity
It started with a shot. Not a launch. Not a live site. Not even a prototype. Just a shot — a single,…
The Evolution of Web Design: From Pixel Art to AI-Generated Experiences
Web design has always lived at the intersection of creativity and technology. It’s a practice that’s evolved not just in response…