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…
The Curious Tale Behind “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog”
At first glance, it looks like the start of a quirky children’s book or a line from a failed Dr….
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….
Exciting New Tools for Designers, November 2025
While new design projects might not be on the top of your mind heading into the holiday season and end…
How AI Video Is Taking Over the Internet
For years, we thought video was the peak of online storytelling—painstakingly edited YouTube explainers, expensive brand commercials, polished Netflix-style productions….
Brutalism in the AI Era: Why Ugly Might Be the Only Honest Aesthetic Left
The web is drowning in beauty. Or at least, what passes for beauty these days — polished gradients, 8px border…
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…
The UX Nightmare: Why Tech Is Becoming Unusable for Everyone Except Cyborgs
Remember when technology was supposed to make life easier? That dream is long gone. Instead of simplifying our lives, modern…
The Layered Aesthetic: Depth, Complexity, and Chaos Done Right
There’s a quiet revolution happening in design, and it’s not about minimalism’s clean white spaces or maximalism’s riot of color….
How Scrolljacking Breaks UX Fundamentals
Let’s be blunt—scrolljacking is the design equivalent of taking the steering wheel out of a driver’s hands and saying, “Don’t worry,…
Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2025
So many exciting new tools for designers this month! From AI help to UI tools to collaboration tools that make…
AI Is Revolutionizing User Testing in 2025 — and Honestly, It’s About Time
User testing used to be a clunky, expensive mess. Remember trying to recruit five “ideal users” who were just available…
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…
Designing for the 1%: Why Edge Cases Aren’t Optional
Let’s talk about the other users. Not your typical, scroll-happy, ideal-case personas. I’m talking about the people who use Internet Explorer 11…