1. Con­tin­voucly Morged Value

But all this also means that humans are turned into mere correction engines. We apply our experience not to shape ideas from first principles, but to smooth out the edges of thoughtless, generic AI output. We are handed something that looks finished and are being asked to make it actually finished.

The underlying assumption: AI does in seconds what expensive humans take hours to do. Finally!

…

The artifacts aren’t the work. They’re the residue of the work. And you can’t get them without the real work.

A friend and I were discussing this piece, particularly how it relates to my feeling that the forces that pull towards velocity directly contradict the forces that push towards quality. Maybe it’s time to update the “fast, cheap, good” diagram:

[ VELOCITY ] < - - - - PICK ONE - - - - > [ QUALITY ]

2. Detail

A nice collection of design tips in here, even if some give me the heebie jeebies.

3. modern.css

This collection of CSS tips has a nice UI to compare old vs new snippets for various frontend techniques. Many of these replace Javascript with pure CSS implementations, and there’s a handy browser support percentage, too.

4. Accessibility for designers: where do I start?

A great set of resources on accessibility from Stéphanie Walter.

5. Launch it 3 times

But if you’re moving with conviction, and you’ve created something meaningful, and if you’re serving a real community that you have a deep understanding of, then it may be the case that you simply need to try again. If you are not moving with conviction to create something meaningful for a real community, then you don’t need to do it three times, because you don’t even need to do it once.

What am I up to?

• I wrote a little update on running a business without any social media presence
• I’ve published the first of my design process interviews, with Joshua Galinato. Please share if you find it interested, and send suggestions of designers you’d be interested to hear from.
• My next available Unoffice Hour slot is 1 April
• I have limited availability for new projects from April.

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