The best solution won't make a difference unless the problem has been correctly framed first.
Problem Design
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Nov 9, 2025
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6 min read
Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.
Oct 12, 2025
7 min read
Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.
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Sep 7, 2025
9 min read
Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.
Jul 20, 2025
8 min read
By emphasizing design's role as a producer of visual outputs, our leaders have eroded the entire justification for UX as a practice.
Jul 12, 2025
Fear is choking out thoughtfulness in tech, and it can't be replaced with "more productivity" — because productivity is not what motivates corporate layoffs.
Jul 6, 2025
When outputs are valued above all else, hallucinations and slop aren't bugs — they're features.
Jun 20, 2025
Tech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose.
Jun 13, 2025
11 min read
Industry leaders like Apple and Shopify are redefining design excellence from making products usable to solely luxury branding.
May 9, 2025
The dream of being able to generate working websites will remain out of reach until UX redefines its practice around semantic structure rather than layouts.
Feb 7, 2025
5 min read
Like our products, visual artifacts should be designed to fit their audience and purpose. That purpose is not "so that someone can look at it."
Jan 31, 2025
UX teams are optimizing themselves into being bad at UX.
Jan 24, 2025
10 min read
User research would have prevented this week's extremely expensive mistakes - but leaders are determined to keep making them.
