work
strategy
Look Up from Your Tools: AI for Product over Production
Today’s focus on AI production efficiencies is only the first stage of a far more exciting arc.
podcast
Lean Stories: AI as Design Material
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred join Jonathan Bertfield to explore how the Lean methodology supports Sentient Design and other innovation work, digging into the messy realities of innovation in complex organizations.
podcast
UX Fika: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred
Don’t settle for an interview that “only” talks about the future of design when you can also get life advice about the Beastie Boys, embarrassing childhood stories, practical magic, and what it’s like for this father-daughter duo to work together.
sentient design
Has the “AI Edge” Become a Dull Blade?
Today’s cutting-edge technology is becoming tomorrow’s ho-hum office tool. And that’s a good thing.
design system
The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring
Design systems should solve problems that designers confront over and over again, so that they can turn to more interesting challenges.
agents
When Using AI Leads to ‘Brain Fry’
A BCG study of US-based workers found that intensive oversight of AI agents can cause cognitive exhaustion that the researchers call “AI brain fry.”
agents
The Shape of the Thing
Ethan Mollick notes that AI has begun to unlock radical changes in the shape of work. What that shape will ultimately become is uncertain—which means now is the moment to influence it.
ai
Boring Is Good
Scott Jenson suggests AI is likely to be more useful for “boring” tasks than for fancy outboard brains that do all our thinking for us.
design
Redesigning Design, the Cliff in Front of Us All
Greg Storey exhorts designers to recognize that it’s a new era, like it or not. Don’t look back, he says—reinvent.
inspiration
A Unified Theory of F*cks
Mandy Brown reminds that work won’t love you back. Give your heart to the living, not to institutions.
ai
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
Writer and programmer James Somers shares his personal journey discovering just how good AI is at writing code—and what this might mean both individually and for the industry.
leadership
Do More with Less: Digital Leadership in Lean Times
Josh Clark shares nine principles to guide high-performing teams to deliver faster/better/cheaper in an era of shrinking budgets.
podcast
“Pair Curiosity with Generosity”
Josh Clark joins Phil Burgess on the IT Career Energizer podcast to talk about crafting a healthy and fulfilling career in the industry.
productivity
The Tools I Use
Josh Clark shares his personal toolkit for making things happen, part of An Event Apart’s “The Tools We Use” series.
ai
The Pop-Up Employer: Build a Team, Do the Job, Say Goodbye
Noam Scheiber reports on algorithms that seek to build an entire organization for you with a click.
principles
Politics Are a Design Constraint
John Warren Hanawalt writes that software design is inherently political. Make sure that your software’s politics line up with your own.
business
Dan Mall on Freelance.tv
My pal and collaborator Dan Mall shares the goods on what it takes to be a world-class indie designer.