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* Don’t invite someone to a meeting if an email or 1:1 conversation will do the job just as well. * Don’t fly if you can show up virtually and get the job done. * Instead of asking a group of people when a good time to meet might be,

Framer, Webflow, Figma pages (coming soon?), ChatGPT, all of these things are merging together to allow the unicorn of an idea—design and dev happening together. We’re not there yet. Right now you mostly need a person who understands both disciplines to be able to design and engineer apps.

I don't know about Android but Apple software has a handy "Include Location" option when exporting images that you should almost always set to off. In the case of my blog, the static site generator I wrote would to just copy the raw image to the

Vibe coding, which is a rising trend, pairs a human programmer with an AI like chatGPT. The AI is doing most of what a human used to do, and generating far more lines of code per hour than a person might. The problem is that often, no one knows exactly

So would I do it again? I went into it saying no. One and done. That said, lying there under the blue sky watching my muscles writhe around, in the park in Southampton city centre, there was a part of me going, I think I could have done better knowing

Here are two words that might make you swoon with longing or simmer with envy: book leave. For most journalists, though, book leave might not be an option, either financially or realistically, thanks to a news cycle that’s more like a nonstop slog. ... “By carving out a dedicated space

But friction is where the growth happens. Ideas need resistance to evolve. If your thoughts can’t survive three smart people pressing on their weak spots, they weren’t thoughts. They were vibes. And if your only collaborators are people who agree with you, you’re not collaborating. You’re

Recently I wrote a post that turned out to be a duplicate of a post from a month earlier, albeit with an updated idea to add on the original idea. I caught the problem toward the end of the post so I was able to tweak it a bit before

Recently I tried printing my own shirt design for my day job. In the early years of my career screen printing was such a joy. At first I switched between working the silk screen presses along with designing the graphics. But a few crooked and failed shirts later and I

Right now is a massively unstable moment for designers. We don’t know what will happen next. The floor is changing out from under us, and we’re each waiting to catch our breath and see what the rest of the year, and the years following, bring. For some this