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Build the info radiator

If your house had more simple information “radiators”, would it be easier? Every remote worker has the same problem. Somebody in your household (a kid, a spouse, a roommate) needs to know whether you’re in a meeting right now. The…

Build toys with known outputs

I keep going back to the Dad Joke format as a first pass for new tech For about four years now, I’ve been asking my computer to tell me dad jokes. Not constantly. Every eighteen months or so, when some…

You’re using AI wrong

Photo by Sen on Unsplash I asked a friend this week what he was building with AI. “I’m doing some pretty interesting things with ChatGPT,” he said. I waited for the rest of the sentence, and there wasn’t anything else.…

Use your Exoskeleton

AI speeds up the game. It doesn’t remove the product decisions needed. Emoji seem like a small thing, but the ones that stick make it to the keyboard of every mobile phone in the world, so the process is pretty…

Design Navigation from the Inside Out

Instead of starting with a nav item, identify what users want In 2023, I wrote about building software from cow paths. The idea was simple: study how people actually work and design around those natural paths. Don’t invent workflows in…

The Three Minute AI Skill Test

The first time I used a large language model, it felt like cheating. I dropped in messy notes and got back a cleaner argument than I could have written in one pass. It surfaced connections I had not named yet.…