When anyone can produce something that looks good, the question becomes not “Can you make this?” but “Can you tell if it’s any good?” Or: “Can you make it better?”

Very, very long piece about stuff around the disability pride flag, some sort of weird conflict it seems to have with an earlier disability flag. Some interesting observations about what it really means to design with a community as well.

The idea that product (design) teams need a vision to work towards. The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn. And something we, as a school, should do as well?

A critique on the National Design Studio. Easy, of course, but interesting.

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

I agree with the idea that businesses do not need to grow. Growth is the ideology of a tumor, of a parasite.

The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim.

In retrospect, this accident of history has been a disaster, since almost all the opinions pushed by the commercial propaganda were false, and, in addition, the propaganda has been so effective that for many those opinions have become dogmata that can no longer be challenged without committing heresy.

A good alternative to wetransfer

Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,

Hilariously detailed article about hacking a vacuum cleaner.

Very useful, extensive guide. Many points apply to other fields of design as well.

Creating a tool to execute the idea means innovation. Compromising the idea to the tool leads to stagnation.

I should sit down one day with some colleagues and write a similar useful guide to bad web design.

Interesting observation that the idea and the form of a quick sketch changes.

Observations about shrinking time, the idea that the computer didn’t give us more time, as promised, but instead filled our lives with micro tasks. We should leave the clock at the door in many situations, like the art/design classroom

A comment on the value of estimating the carbon footprint of websites.

Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.

A tool to create bright CSS gradients.

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:

very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

Your brain is less active when you use tools instead of just your brains. Not very shocking. Rather obvious.

Fun exercise that compares internet speeds to nerve-speeds in animals.

Fantastic article about NTP, the complex system that synchronises time on the internet.

Another super relevant set of guidelines to work with

Productivity did not go up

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

The other costs of LLMs. Or should we start calling them IPs? Internet Parasites?