I sat down with Tom Scott recently to talk about a wide range of topics about how we design at @Superhuman (formerly Grammarly). We touched on hiring, how roles are shifting and how AI is still continuing to change everything.

Ikea have a wonderful design principle when it comes to home technology they call The Escalator Principle. Because if an escalator stops working, it's still usable just as normal stairs.

This is perfection:

Czechbox

Job update: I’ve joined @aftershootco and will be leading design there. They’ve created a great and successful AI tool for pro photographers (before the hype) and this year we’re taking it to the next level 🦾

Woah - I was able to use Claude to take @pjonori's Dieter Dots code and convert it to little web app. Took 5 minutes. We're all going to be building our own on-demand mini apps very soon.

Using Claude's new artifacts feature, and realised it's fantastic wireframing tools. You can build clickable semi-working wireframes incredibly quickly.

One of the original design principles of the Figma UI was that it was purposely utilitarian, neutral and out-of-time, so it's interesting to see them go away from that and actually take a stance on a specific design style.

Logically it makes sense, but you start to get into these fiddly situations with overlapping interactions.

Curious if left sidebars will fall out of favor as more product teams adopt Arc. Dealing with double, collapsible sidebars can be quite frustrating.

In my ongoing efforts to learn German, I still often struggle with understanding article genders and grammar. I started exploring what it could be like if you could inspect written text to understand the sentence structure.