Writing archive

There is some consternation about Europe not being able to keep up with the US and AI. In the tech press The Continent is often portrayed as quaint but ultimately slow if not failed in this regard, completely unable to get past it’s regulatory programmes and concern for humans

I have a new website! There it sits proudly on my domain (jimkosem.com), under my name. A piece of internets I claimed ages ago to be my spot out there on the webs. I could have started with the Shakespeare bit about names but we’re talking about domains

1password sat there open with its graveyard of 710 logins, among them the forgotten remains for a pizza place in another country I haven't lived in for six years that I can’t delete. I can't come up with a better metaphor for the haunting that

Textile 2024 week 24 note When you give a talk in front of a bunch of people you should probably have your facts straight. This is especially the case when you’re a designer giving a talk at a tech event, such as IPFS Camp in Brussels where I’ll

Textile 2024 week 23 note Generative AI UX Design Patterns There are lots of questions about how AI will impact “knowledge” work moving forward as we all huddle in front of our machines for terminal velocity to be achieved to see if things calm down. One thing is for sure

Textile 2024 week 22 note In What can LLMs never do? Rohit Krishnan, exposes some fascinating gaps in the AI takeover of everything. There is no shortage of polar swinging discussions around LLMs and “AI” in general. It is either going to save humanity and single handedly make a better

Textile 2024 week 19 note Accessibility seems to be trending. This is new in a way that is almost disturbing for a number of reasons, the first of which is why has it taken so long, and the second being what caused this. I think it might have to do

Textile 2024 week 17 note I might be doing some more speaking at another developer conference or two quite soon. This is a good, but slightly uncomfortable spot to be in when you’re a designer. You’re typically talking a different language to what is hopefully a crowd of

Textile 2024 week 16 note We’re in the midst of designing and prototyping a number of sites, showing what we’re working on at Textile, which I’ve been writing about or around in the past couple of weeks or so. At first we talked about just putting a

Textile 2024 week 14 note Colour can count for a lot. Recently with Tableland Studio we’ve been piloting a dark mode colour scheme. This is a bigger deal than you probably think and the history of dark mode is an interesting one. We’ve been working with the idea

Textile 2024 week 15 note This past week has been a lot of making web prototypes, namely in Framer, a tool that allows designer to design and publish web sites without coding. I learned how to make websites a long time ago, longer than most could imagine or want to

Textile 2024 week 12 note Part of being a design at Textile means doing a bit of everything. This means not just the user experience, but also visual design. This is great for me as a user experience designer, because my first degree is actually in graphic design, and that