Grids, cool. Progressive Blur, yass!

You can invest in good design now—or pay for bad design later.

Case in point: Sonos lost $900M in market cap after the botched launch of its new app. A brand synonymous with great UX became a cautionary tale overnight.

The ROI of design can be hard to quantify, but the cost of bad design is crystal clear.

Cutting design in the name of efficiency might feel right in the moment, but companies that over-index on this will pay for it later—because less design often means bad design.

The opposite of user-centered theatre?

This. This is the right answer.

Preach.

The opposite of depression is not joy, but expression. Creating is the antidote. My hope is that AI, in time, lets us create more than we ever imagined, verses the dark depressive alternative.

Proving once again that, if at all possible, we must regain or retain that child-like wonder.

“It took me 4 years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” —Pablo Picasso

If the statement is true, I believe this is most likely a Ctrl-Z.

For sure. I’m reminded of the MAYA principle. Most Advanced Yet Acceptable. Many of these are advanced, but are they acceptable? In time, I believe we’ll get there. Google Glass and others were doomed by their timing and the expectations of the market. Those expectations will shift eventually.

I love the notion that we start by not changing our customers, but letting our customers change us.

I wouldn’t say Siri is for conversation, rather more commands. While they only recently added the ability to chain commands, it is not even close to what you can do with ChatGPT. It’s kind of embarrassing.

It’s clear Orion is the most logical (and useful) form factor for XR in the future.

The Vision Pro is a technical marvel, but it’s also impractical for daily use, which is surprising coming from Apple.

100% this. Forget evergreen jobs to be done or customer outcomes. Business acumen is one thing, business at the cost of customer “value” is another.

We know what happens when the models start consuming their own synthetic content. Perhaps this is a good thing in the long run. Ha.