A love letter to the Quantel Paintbox — In 1989 the British rock band Queen released their thirteenth studio album, ‘The Miracle’. …

How AI and machine learning are toxic for the design industry — The advancement of AI and machine learning is disturbing. It used to just be chess grandmasters that were bitchslapped by new technology. Now every industry is potentially threatened by automation.

Bringing back the finesse to digital product design I LOVE Typography. I studied it at LCP. It’s arguably one of the most underrated aspects of modern digital product design, and IMHO the most taken for granted. …

Thoughts on learning piano as an adult The piano is a beautiful instrument, those 88 keys are the cheat codes to every frequency of musical happiness. Every beautiful auditory pleasure imaginable. …

How to safely navigate the murky waters of e-commerce — So this article came up on the BBC News: Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ — Which? report It seems that fake reviews are a massive issue for Amazon This bit caught my eye: ‘Amazon said it was using automated technology to weed out false reviews’. Using AI to try…

Apples new credit card, designed to disrupt both banks and credit card companies, despite literally being the photogenic 3 parent IVF child of a bank (Goldman Sachs) a credit card company (MasterCard), and Tim Apple. Apple recently launched Apple Card, an innovative, new kind of credit card created by Apple…

I have been in quite a few interviews this year, and wanted to provide a light-hearted satirical recap to explain the real meaning of some of the most prevalent questions. Is just a bit of fun so don’t @ me etc We need you to have a chemistry meeting with (insert job title here) The (insert job title here) is difficult to work…

The rise of AI and its potential impact on commerce — Robots I came across this article on Ocados robotic picking facility https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-06/how-many-robots-does-it-take-to-fill-a-grocery-order The tech is impressive but this was my takeaway: “Replacing human packers will be much harder because that requires a robot that can duplicate the dexterity of the human hand, the ability to grab a bunch of kale, say…

Hiring people: If you are asking for designers with ‘pixel perfect’ skills, then you are doing it wrong. Pixels, and the concept of polished ‘final’ or ‘pixel perfect’ visuals, are as anachronistic as the word ‘digital’.