Most people don’t like bats. There are probably ingrained and insidious reasons as long as time itself for this. There is Dracula I suppose and it is October, spookiness abounds and you never know with all the ghosts and ghouls roaming about. Most people don’t like bats, but
Nobody likes being outside and looking down at your phone. We all do it, but nobody likes it. In fact, being outside is one of the few times we really don’t feel like looking at a display. The maps, you say, give me turn by turn directions. They do,
Vibe vs Agile in the ultimate showdown I’m now open to new opportunities where I can help solve problems through design, strategy, and research—whether that’s improving user experiences, guiding product decisions, or uncovering insights that drive better outcomes. Happy to chat about how we might work together.
At this point, if you have anything to do with using a computer on a regular basis, you don’t have to use those two letters even. AI is conceptually becoming the Internet, a thing-place which was once a thing you go to, and now is just sort of everywhere.
2 min read Agents, agents, agents. You can’t open the internet without reading about how AI agents are already changing everything from how we shop to how we understand and appreciate sliced bread. They’re everywhere, devious little operatives lurking in the shadows doing things out of sight, resolved
I’m now open to new opportunities where I can help solve problems through design, strategy, and research—whether that’s improving user experiences, guiding product decisions, or uncovering insights that drive better outcomes. Happy to chat about how we might work together. Email me You might have heard, there’
There are no shortage of AI graphics generation demos out there, but Adobe’s Project Turntable is easily one of the more captivating. It’s easy for me to get honestly excited by new graphics tools. I’ve been using them, 2d, 3d and in between, for about half of
The Nintendo Alarm wins with radar, lateral thinking and fun, reminding us what design can bring to our lives.
I’ve been doing what I imagine a lot of us are lately, which is typing at machines quite a lot lately. It’s not really with is it? Tell me the average thing of that. Make me a picture of a tabby cat with rocket launchers on its back
The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents. “Challenging The Myths of Generative AI” (Tech Policy Press) If design is about figuring out and describing what to make or what to fix, there is likely way
Using LLMs should work like asking a trusted doctor or mechanic
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
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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
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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
Textile 2024 week 11 note Users. Participants. People. The fact is that you always have to be thinking about them when you’re designing and building software. How to understand what potential users might be thinking is key to building software. Everyone knows this. There’s many ways into people’