An exploration of Gnome’s many failings and how to fix it.

Agents can make one-off apps, but they’re usually toys. I show how we might bring malleability and composability to the kind of deep interfaces that experts live in all day—demonstrated in a writing environment, but applicable to all serious software. Little serious reading software exists, so I propose and demonstrate a new kind of malleable digital reading environment focused on expert use.

But malleable interfaces aren’t enough. Historically, inventing interfaces has required imaginative design skill, deep domain insight, and fluent programming. Few have all three, but programming is the only skill that can produce working software on its own—so interface invention culture is dominated by programmers. I share early reports of how coding agents are changing that, and what it might mean for the people and institutions inventing interfaces today.

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Very beautiful hypermedia desktop environment powered by Patchwork. At the same time, I’m a bit disturbed by how involved LLMs have become in the I&S process.

Over the past decade, I’ve worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe

I need this in my house SOOOOOO BAD!

reflections on abstractions and control

reflections on abstractions and control

Perception is an Emmy nominated design lab pioneering the process of science fiction thinking to architect the future for cinema and global technology brands.

Always trying to marry the artistic with the useful.

A bundle of guidelines, tools, and resources to help designers and developers co-create superior banking experiences.

Part 2 of The Interfaces With Which We Think

Pattern library of AIUX patterns exploring best practices for designing AI Products.

In project Beckett, we are building a version control system for scene files in the Godot game engine that preserves these meaningful spatial and structural relationships.

Spreadsheets are particularly useful for thinking through financial models, budgets, or any situation that involves considering lots of possible scenarios. Instead of laboriously redoing a bunch of math, you can quickly ask “what if?” questions and see the effects.

Very nice work by Litt and the Ink and Switch crew. Wondering if there’s a way to combine Ambsheets v1 and v2 to have both a nice interactive grid and clear formulas when you need them.

This website uses a metaphorical and interactive presentation to critically illustrate the modern web user experience, emphasizing the frustrations of constant interruptions, unnecessary animations, and intrusive elements common on contemporary websites.

Nice trip