Not a huge insight, but I believe car gps navs went mainstream right as discourse about urban traffic simplification started to gain traction, thus allowing the complexity bloating to continue unhindered.
Is Extreme Programming Just Old Wine in New
Bottles (2005)
Can't tell you how much I enjoyed reading your LinkedIn post and the twenty hashtags that accompanied it.
Don‘t forget German 2nd order cybernetics trying to get a piece of the cake: www.arminbwagner.com/misc/gotthar...
NPC Centered Design
The soldier not pulling the trigger is an individual transcending the artificial boundaries of teams, and the fact that he is part of a majority is a win for humanity.
This topic is *old*. Ancient. The idea that seniors ”signing off“ thousands of AI-generated lines of code… the idea that this is an adequate approach to a major problem of a (supposedly) industry-changing paradigm shift is… absurd.
“[…] the human in a highly complex and automated system may become simply a component—accidently or intentionally—that bears the brunt of the moral and legal responsibilities when the overall system malfunctions.“
Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (Elish, 2019)
3rd row. Collaboration outside design team.
left: 51% of hiring managers think this is one of the top 5 designer-skills. OK. Fine.
right: 23% have noticed an *increased* emphasis on that skill when it comes to non-designers
@erikahall.bsky.social Have you seen this? The Figma “State of the Designer 2026” report. Can you make sense of it? What are we even comparing here?
Architect or bee? (Cooley, 1987)
Remote working is an interesting case. It's not just the removal of the commute (product of industrialization). At its best, it restores cognitive conditions for sustained thought (open office vs 19th century "private study").
The idea is that efficiency gains are reinvested into more production and higher expectations (dishwashers did not reduce the total time spent on domestic work).
Considering all our technical advances, do you think you have more time for "creative work" than a computer guy in 1987?
I guess attention is all they need
Bullshit receptivity is linked to a lower analytic thinking, insight, verbal ability, general knowledge, metacognition, and intelligence (Littrell & Fugelsang, 2024; Littrell et al., 2021b; Pennycook et al., 2015; Salvi et al., 2023).”
vibe bombing
Maybe you should call Jeremiah.
Ironically, the very moment “human-centeredness” could have become something meaningful to rally around, large parts of our profession pivot to an “AI-first” worldview - without even flinching.
Changing user-centered design to human-centered design was a misstep. It moved the focus from representing specific groups of people to some sort of vague, oppositional stance. Which humans are we putting in the center? All of them? Against what, concretely?
We should do a ”workshop“ about that.
The Jungian Glitch… the metalhead cousin of the Freudian Slip.
I’m running an llm locally - on the 2nd-hand C64 I got in the 80s.
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Cuba was known to be very restrictive.
As a comparison… this is how Netscape 4 looked like… in 1998.
A screenshot showing Netscape 6 in all its gimmickry glory.
"Platforms must be transparent." - https://
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/
He's got a point… and if you don't remember how gimmickry Netscape 6 was, this is how it looked like in 2002:
