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Moving beyond the pixels.

A weekly exploration of HCI, AI co-creation, and system architecture for the modern product designer.

Designing For Paleolithic Hominids

We Are Not Designing for Users. We Are Designing for Paleolithic Hominids.

Mar 22, 2026

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Designing For Paleolithic Hominids

We Are Not Designing for Users. We Are Designing for Paleolithic Hominids.

Mar 22, 2026

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Designing For Paleolithic Hominids

We Are Not Designing for Users. We Are Designing for Paleolithic Hominids.

Mar 22, 2026

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Getting a job offer

The Algorithmic Fortress: Why Your 2025 Job Search is a Digital Arms Race

Dec 19, 2025

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Getting a job offer

The Algorithmic Fortress: Why Your 2025 Job Search is a Digital Arms Race

Dec 19, 2025

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Getting a job offer

The Algorithmic Fortress: Why Your 2025 Job Search is a Digital Arms Race

Dec 19, 2025

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Designing for the Post-Bubble Reality: Why "Wrappers" Die and Resilient Systems Survive

Dec 12, 2025

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Designing for the Post-Bubble Reality: Why "Wrappers" Die and Resilient Systems Survive

Dec 12, 2025

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Designing for the Post-Bubble Reality: Why "Wrappers" Die and Resilient Systems Survive

Dec 12, 2025

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Interfaces vs. Intelligence: The Shift from Automation to Co-Creation

Dec 5, 2025

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Interfaces vs. Intelligence: The Shift from Automation to Co-Creation

Dec 5, 2025

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Interfaces vs. Intelligence: The Shift from Automation to Co-Creation

Dec 5, 2025

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TOOLS

TOOLS

USEFUL TOOLS

USEFUL TOOLS

Collection of tools I use and want to share with you.

Uncut.wtf

Uncut

UNCUT.wtf is a free, curated catalog of contemporary typefaces, mainly for designers looking for open-source or commercial-use fonts. It focuses on categories like sans serif, serif, monospace, and display fonts, and it’s known for a clean browsing experience.

CTA Library

CTA Gallery

CTA.gallery is a curated inspiration library of call-to-action designs for websites and apps, focused on helping designers and marketers create higher-converting buttons, forms, pricing blocks, and pop-ups. It presents “web’s best Call-to-Actions” and is positioned as a design reference rather than a build tool.

Minimal Mockups

Minimal Mockups

Minimal Mockups is a free graphic-design resource site that offers mockups for presenting designs, with categories like smartphones, posters, laptops, boxes, magazines, and business cards. The pages show individual mockup downloads and note they’re free for personal and commercial use.

Shots.so

Shots.so

Shots.so is an online mockup and presentation tool for turning screenshots, designs, and product visuals into polished device mockups, social graphics, and animated previews. It emphasizes quick creation, browser-based editing, and a “create amazing mockups” workflow.

Noun Studio

Noun Project

The Noun Project is a large icon and stock photo library for designers, presentations, websites, and apps, with millions of SVG and PNG assets available. It’s best known for its icon search, consistent visual style, and easy licensing for personal and commercial projects.

Unicorn Studio

Unicrorn Studio

Unicorn Studio is a no-code WebGL design tool for creating animated, interactive visual effects for websites and apps. It’s aimed at designers who want to build and embed motion-heavy scenes without coding shaders from scratch.

MockRocket

MockRocket

MockRocket is a browser-based tool for creating photorealistic 3D device mockups and animated promo videos from screenshots or app designs. The app.signin link leads to its dashboard for paid users, while the main site offers a free trial with watermarks.

Variant AI

Variant

Variant is an AI-powered design tool that generates endless UI mockups and layouts for apps or websites just by scrolling and entering a prompt. The /community page links to their chat or inspiration area where users can browse, rate, favorite, or remix shared designs.

Stitch

Stitch

Stitch is Google's AI-powered UI design platform for generating high-fidelity mobile and web app interfaces from text prompts, images, sketches, or wireframes. It’s an experimental Google Labs tool that streamlines ideation to prototype with features like infinite canvas, voice commands, and interactive previews.

Are.na

Are.na

Are.na is a minimalist platform for creative research, where you collect web clips, images, videos, texts, and notes into customizable "channels" to organize ideas. It’s built for artists, designers, academics, and thinkers as an ad-free alternative to Pinterest or Tumblr, with a focus on private or collaborative projects.

Fonthare

Fontshare

Fontshare is a free font library from Indian Type Foundry with over 100 professional-grade typefaces for personal and commercial use. All fonts come under a permissive license with no restrictions on projects, and they include variable versions for flexibility.

Framer

Framer

Framer is a no-code platform for designing, prototyping, and publishing interactive websites with AI tools, CMS, and animations. It combines Figma-style editing with direct hosting, so you build once and launch without switching apps.