Notes on AI
Notes on design, AI, type and the business of all three. Written by me, for designers who work with machines.
Is AI Stealing Your Design Work? The Tool Isn’t the Only Suspect
A hammer can put a nail in a wall. The same hammer can kill someone. Nobody walks into a hardware store and demands the hammer be banned. We blame the…Stop Guessing What to Charge!
Most freelance pricing advice sounds suspiciously simple: "Calculate your monthly bills, divide by 160 hours, add a bit of profit, and double it for confidence." If you’ve spent more than…The Last Hand on the File
Design has been displaced by machinery at least four times since 1886, and every time the sequence has run the same way. A body of skilled manual work gets absorbed,…Half of Designers Now Ship Code. Four Per Cent Got a Pay Rise.
The job changed. The job description did not. The 2026 AI in Design report, produced by Designer Fund and Foundation Capital from a survey of more than 900 designers across…Why (Font) Size Matters…
Type size is among the oldest and most consequential variables in typographic design, yet it is routinely reduced in practice to a single guideline figure or a brand convention. This…Why AI Hasn’t Replaced Graphic Design But It Has Raised the Stakes
The question everyone is asking the wrong way Walk into any boardroom conversation about brand spend in 2026 and one question hangs over the room: Do we still need a…AI Beyond the Hype: Synthetic Data, Specialized AI Agents, and the Workflow Revolution Are Quietly Rewriting Business in 2026
The AGI debate is sucking up all the oxygen. Meanwhile, the real revolution is happening in the boring middle layer, and the companies paying attention are the ones pulling ahead.…The Transition from UX to AX
The digital design world is going through a massive shake-up right now. In fact, it's probably the biggest structural shift we've seen since the jump from print to digital media.…How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Screen Reading
For most of us, the letters on our screens are just there. But for the better part of thirty years, getting those letters to look "just there" was an invisible…Build Your Own Private Machine Learning Powerhouse with Zero Budget
Tired of paying for AI subscriptions? It’s time to take back control. The rapid democratization of Artificial Intelligence has moved the center of power from giant data centers straight to…How AI-First Development is Dismantling Traditional CRM and ERP Monoliths
Introduction to the Agentic Era of Enterprise Software The enterprise software landscape is currently undergoing a seismic architectural transition, moving from passive systems of record to autonomous, agentic systems of…The Orchestration of Intelligence: Analysis of Frontier AI Systems and Multi-Model Frameworks in 2026
The artificial intelligence landscape of 2026 represents a definitive maturation of large language models (LLMs) from experimental conversationalists into specialized, autonomous operational entities. This shift is characterized by the emergence…
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