blog.jim-nielsen.com — Oh Hey, It’s Not Just Me
My whole life I’ve felt like I have great eyesight (and I still do). But lately I’ve been noticing what feels like…some slippage. Nothing big. Just this...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — The Fruits of AI
Terry Godier has a post titled “Mea culpa” (which, given his framing, might’ve been better titled “Claude’s Culpa”). I’m not sure how much to even trust...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — A License to Act
In the past, search engines and the open web granted access to other people’s knowledge but the task fell to you to synthesize an understanding from it and...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — The AI Aesthetic
Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Can the Tide of AI Investment Life All Boats on the Web?
Jason Grigsby has a great article where he surfaces an opinion from the Safari team about how AI agents shouldn’t get special treatment: An agent acting on a...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Podcast Notes: Ed Catmull on David Senra
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Disney Animation, was on the David Senra podcast and I quite enjoyed the interview. (If you like the...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Make It Work vs. Make It Good
There are two wolves inside of me, lol. Some days I want to be a “designer”. Other days I want to be a “developer”. On the days I find myself wanting to feed...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Podcast Notes: Iain McGilchrist on “The Great Simplification”
I wish I could remember how this podcast came across my radar so I could give credit where it’s due. But alas, I cannot. It’s episode 217 with Dr. Iain...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — What’s an Icon in 2026?
As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts. They mainly revolve around two perspectives: What I think of icons as a long-time user...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Family Feud: Mac-assed Mac App Edition
“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes!...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Making a Shuffle Button
I made some updates to my notes blog, including a change to how my “Shuffle” feature worked. Figured I’d blog about it. Shuffle? On a Blog? At the time of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — This Page Left Intentionally Blank
I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Notes from Bryan Cantrill’s “Intelligence is not Enough”
I quite enjoyed this talk from Bryan Cantrill where he discusses the difficult engineering problems they overcame while working on their company Oxide. Some...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — My Om Malik Story
If you have’t heard, Om Malik passed away. People are sharing stories of their graceful encounters with him. This one is mine. Back at the beginning of 2021,...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Consistency, But in Excellence Not Appearance
Consistency serves a purpose in visual design, but it seems to have become the purpose of a lot of visual design. Look no further than these evolutions of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Full Page Paralysis
You’ve probably heard the term. It’s meant to convey how difficult it can be to start something. “Blank page paralysis”. But for my money, beginning is easy....
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Being “Good” at Things
Golf content on social media is my online junk food and the other day I came across a video interviewing professional golfers that asks: “What does an...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Coding Is Designing
Code isn’t just a way to implement a design, it’s a way to find one. With an interface, you have to use it, feel it, interact with it, and poke at it to see...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — An Ode to the Exacting Pedantry of Computers
The very first computer programming class I ever took introduced me to the idea of there being different kinds of numbers, like integers, floats, and doubles...