Tag: design
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The Millennial Aesthetic, 2020
Millennial pink, sage, ocher, beveled edges — a palette and a reading of the aesthetic that turned “good design” into the product itself. Built from Molly Fischer’s 2020 essay for The Cut.
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Implicit Rules, Paste Special, and Grand Theft Carp – Related to your interests, Sunday
Also: the perfect length for a list, post-Christian kitsch, and the forth R. ICYMI Original content published since last time. Related to your interests AI Summaries I wanted to read these, but I didn’t make the time, so I asked the robot to summarize them.
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Tatermaxxing
We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation with potato stamps, so we bought 8kg of potatoes, some knifes and carved a long, long evening in the kitchen. When we finally had the full aphabet we stamped it on paper, made a font out of this and called it Bodedo. Maybe my new mindset…
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Aesthetic Computing Consider “ascetic computing”: Here’s what “ascetic computing” means to me: Doing without things that compromise my personal standards or morals. Learning to live Fearlessly in the face of Missing Out. Resisting the Endless Pursuit of Shiny Things. … The goal is to live a (computing) life of principle, purpose, and focus. … Nothing…
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Agents Don’t Know What Good Looks Like – And That’s a Design Constraint, Not a Bug
Summarized by AI on April 11th, 2026. Luca Mezzalira reacts to a fireside chat between Neal Ford and Sam Newman on agentic AI and software architecture. The core argument is that current AI agents are stuck between novice and advanced beginner on the Dreyfus Model of Knowledge Acquisition – they can follow and even adapt…
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Does Platform Product Management & Design Really Happen? Or is it all just platform engineering? – Tanzu Catsup
Most organizations treat infrastructure as a series of projects to be “completed,” but successful platform engineering requires a permanent product mindset. In this episode, we explore why platform teams need dedicated product management to balance competing priorities—like security, cost, and developer experience—and why the “why” scales much better than the “what” in large enterprises. We…
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Recursive Loops, Enterprise Nanny-states, Garbage Chairs, and Improv
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Duivendrecht edition. Original Content From Platform Engineering to Stand-Up Comedian, with Lian Li, Software Defined Talk #117: “In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up…
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Related to your interests for Sunday
“Moody’s Analytics recently estimated that the top 10 percent of households were responsible for nearly half of all spending.” K-shaped. AI is used a lot for making software. Not sure about the survey demographics and methodology. Deciding on Obama v. McCain in 2008. Keep track of things you’ve done each day so you realize you’re…
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Instructive thoughts on web design. 🔗 The Creative Website Manual™
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AI is not for experts
Emma Thompson does not need Clippy Jr.: “When I’ve written something and put it into a Word document, it’s constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’” Thompson said. The UK national treasure added: “I don’t need you to [expletive deleted] rewrite what I’ve just written. Will you [expletive deleted] off. Just…
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The art of Jean-Michel Nicollet – “French cover design can be unsympathetic to cover illustration, crowding the paintings with poor type choices and purposeless graphics.” // Great looking paperback covers. // That basic framing would be good for video thumbnails…?
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“PRACTICAL ESTHETIC SERVICES ADAPTABLE TO CLIENT SITUATION.” Art card
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Inter font family – Crisp and clean.
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Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me – Less time coding means more time designing and product managing.
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Agentic Design Patterns, book draft –
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‘But I’m not creative’: The role of creativity and connection in content design – An overlooked part of creating: establish your taste in things and apply it to your work. When working with (editing) others, figuring out what their taste is, and apply it to their work.
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MCP Is RSS for AI: More Use Cases for Model Context Protocol – I like this: “I’m inclined to think of MCP as RSS for AI.” // Once prompts are used as intended – to be user initiated activity in the UI, we’ll see if things evolve. Think of an MCP prompt as adding a…
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Minimum Viable All the Things
Max Ernst, 1934. Relative to your interests MCP Authorization in practice with Spring AI and OAuth2 – Filling in the missing piece of MCP: security. The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun – Data gravity considerations for AI. We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. –…
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Data Looks Better Naked – Good advice on formatting charts and data tables. The examples are incremental, so you can choose to go all the way, or just apply some of the design changes.
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