Some human-centred practitioners have been consigned to increasingly superficial considerations. Artificial intelligence presents an opportunity for us to bring the focus back to the fundamentals that make our work important and successful.
In Pixel Pushing, Redux I rebuilt this site with Claude Design over a weekend and £23.84, then handed off to Claude Code for the WordPress build. One thing intrigued me when setting up the design, Claude Design's first pass was to set up a design system, you can import assets and it will set up...
Web accessibility isn't compliance theatre or checking off a list. It's about designing for everyone. Exploring the curb cut effect, why disability is more common than we think, and practical steps to make your website usable by as many people as possible.
The least fun but most required part of our work.
Added /site/design as a brand reference and a contact email to the site footer.
Integrated mystical pagan symbols into UI and overhauled support page with new patronage components.
Integrating pagan symbols into the website UI with randomized drifting animations.
A super nice Saturday across town bopping about. +18 photos
Refining mobile layout, adding fediverse presence, and publishing several new blog posts on Faol.
You are not your user. Except when you are. This is a story about how I learned to be a better user of my own product.
Claude Design dropped on a Friday. I played. This site redesign is the result - some time over the weekend, £23.84, and a lot of thoughts about design systems, source of truth, and whether the tension between design and engineering has really gone anywhere.
A good idea, badly executed.
Overview of thoughful and protective design of tooling for moderating user-generated content, placing emphasis on minimising the psychological effects of exposure to heinous content, while balancing efficiency, accuracy, and the long-term wellbeing of trust and safety teams. Covering techniques for the mitigation of impact where applicable.
Chip, badge, pill, tag, lozenge, how about none?
Design is perhaps the software paradigm most wedded to the mouse and the GUI. But there’s no reason it can’t be text-driven.
Learn how to optimize your website for generative search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to improve your search engine rankings.