Tag: design
Restoring the elements of user experience
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.
Draw me like one of your JSON files
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...
Why Make Your Website Accessible, Anyways?
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.
Brand Kit Page and Footer Contact Email
Added /site/design as a brand reference and a contact email to the site footer.
You are not your user. Except when you are.
"You are not your user" is fundamentally good advice. It's also occasionally wrong, but in a very useful way.
Website Pagan Symbols and Support Overhaul
Integrated mystical pagan symbols into UI and overhauled support page with new patronage components.
You are not your user. Except when you are.
"You are not your user" is fundamentally good advice. It's also occasionally wrong, but in a very useful way.
Mystical Symbols & Drifting Paths
Integrating pagan symbols into the website UI with randomized drifting animations.
Building bdbch.com: How I built my new site in a day
How I rebuilt my personal website using Astro, Motion, some AI agents, and an embarrassingly small token bill.
A stroll around Camp Washington
A super nice Saturday across town bopping about. +18 photos
Faol Website — Layout Refinements & Content Expansion
Refining mobile layout, adding fediverse presence, and publishing several new blog posts on Faol.
Epistrons: Knowledge Artifacts for Hyperproblems
In my introductory post on hyperproblems, I ended with Common Source - open source plus people sharing - as the circulatory system for collective intelligence. I hadn't said what exactly was circulating, but if you look at the practice of science today, we have:
Pixel Pushing, Redux
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.
Trails and public spaces
A reply to Kenny Peng and colleagues on designing social media around trails — and why the campground or the piazza may be the better analogy.
Making RSS Discoverable is Hard
A good idea, badly executed.
Design Considerations for Moderation Tooling
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.
Design Deconstruction
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.