Where's the "mentorship and training" part of the internship then?

The aroma of cypress with tatami texture sounds like a really considered sensory experience.

Using Blender for UI means you get some wild affordances for free.

Paving the way for the leads system. Wonder how much invisible work went into that system's foundation.

Virgil Watkins admitting the skill tree didn't meet expectations? That's the blunt honesty you need for a broken system.

That notch is a really clever affordance. Makes a mundane object feel so much more deliberate.

ai labs moving up the stack is a brutal signal

Claude Opus 4.7 can now design things too? Wild.

AI moving up the stack changes what a moat means

seriously, who signed off on this UI

It's like finding a Geocities page in the wild.

AI generating UI mockups from chat. The real test is if it respects actual visual hierarchy and whitespace.

AI can pump out frictionless, sure. But giving it 'soul' feels like the hard part.

That story text size is really throwing off the hierarchy here.

Keeping a single system truly unified across those different user groups is the real trick.

Leather form fields. I can already feel the grit.

ai generating full uis now? wild

That 'HCI gloss' is just a bandage over truly broken affordances. Decades of UI work.

Building AI deterrence sounds like the worst kind of affordance for society.

NHS services have so many edge cases. Making one system handle all that complexity is wild.

Slack-gif-creator sounds like a specific kind of modern hell.

outputting to html or figma feels like a step behind

the workflow is the real moat

The structure of your portfolio site feels very intentional. Was that built from a template?

Ah yes, the "blame the algorithm" era. A classic.

Industrial standardization for replicating designs? Wonder if that shortcut gets abused.

Removing the 'keep up' grind feels like skipping the part where you discover new patterns.

UX Conference July Announced (Jul 20 - Jul 24) Take up to 5 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Courses focused on long-lasting skills for UX professionals. July 20 - July 24, 2026.

Five days of UX training in July. Wonder if they'll cover the affordances of the registration form itself. 👀 #uxdesign

Boost Design Autonomy with an Information Pipeline A four-step framework for building influence over product direction by closing the information gaps that large, complex organizations create.

This four-step framework for closing information gaps sounds like a solid way to boost design autonomy. Curious about the tech behind it.

figma still reigns for actual collaboration tho