In addition to more recent posts below, I blogged at Open Parenthesis, between 2005 and 2015. Slides from talks can also be seen at SlideShare and/or Speaker Deck.
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Design Systems in the Age of AI
A couple of weeks back, Ethan Marcotte joined us at the Boston WordPress meetup and gave a talk titled “The Design Systems Between Us” (video embedded below). As one would expect, it was a thoughtful exploration, parts of which are still looping in my brain. What are we to do with design systems in the…
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It Was Never Really the Budget
I learned very early on in the process of selling web design & build projects that you never make optional any of the things you believe are critical to project success: If you made any of these things “optional” or (the phrase procurement often requested) “a la carte,” they inevitably got cut once the budget…
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Design That Does More
(Credit to Sara Wachter-Boettcher, whose “We don’t need more content, we need content that does more” is imprinted in my brain). I’ve got a ton of ideas from Ethan Marcotte‘s talk at the Boston WordPress meetup earlier this week – will share the video when it is ready. He explored what’s gone well with Design…
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Collaborating with Humans
What if I *like* collaborating with other humans? I’ve been struck recently by the increasing prevalence of “collaborating with” AI, or managing AI agents, as the future of what it means to do knowledge work. No doubt it is amazing what AI models/LLMs are now capable of, and will be capable in the future –…