Design & Aesthetics

Typography is one of the most felt and least understood elements of design. Most people can’t tell you why one website feels elevated and another feels cheap. They can’t name the fonts involved or explain the technical decisions behind them. But they feel the difference immediately, in the first second, before they’ve read a word, […]

There is an entire category of merchandise built around the idea that the modern brain is running too many tabs at once. Mugs, tee shirts, tote bags, all variations on the same joke: 47 tabs open, half of them frozen, nobody knows which one is making that noise. It’s funny because it’s accurate. And it’s […]

I use AI every day. I want to say that clearly, up front, because I think there’s a version of this conversation that positions designers like me as AI skeptics, people who feel threatened by the technology and dress that threat up as a philosophy. That’s not what this is. I use AI to adjust […]