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Visual essays, workshops and field notes on designing with AI.
The written version of my Design Outlook 26 talk. Three habits have followed me from print design through UX and into design engineering—Collect, Combine, Collaborate—held together by one keystone technique: capturing ideas as small, single-file HTML prototypes. The full deck, slide by slide, with the transcript alongside.
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The keystone habit from my Design Outlook 26 talk. How I capture ideas as small, single-file HTML prototypes — one file you can play with, reason about, share, and iterate. The why, the process, and the tips and tricks that make it stick.
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You can capture all the important qualities of AI as a mountainous landscape. Wild and abundant, complex beyond comprehension, the terrain can look terrific or terrifying depending on where you stand. The peaks represent breakthroughs, the valleys signify limitations, and the unexplored paths hint at future possibilities.
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There's been a lot of discussion about agents this year, but much of it has felt hollow. If a language model is a room you inhabit for conversation, then an agent is an office with capabilities—furnished with clocks for reasoning, bureaus for creating, filing cabinets for memory, and computers for reaching beyond.
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What if we could understand large language models not as abstract algorithms, but as rooms we enter and inhabit? This visual essay explores how thinking of LLMs as physical spaces—with windows showing their training, tools in the kitchen, and doors marking boundaries—can illuminate how they work.
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Most computers come standard with a microphone, speaker, and a webcam. We use them in pretty standard ways—video conferencing, maybe the occasional photo booth giggle. What happens when we treat them as first-class inputs and outputs for AI-powered apps? Reflections from a workshop at Design Outlook 2024.
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