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4 items tagged "Design".

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The AI building boom echoes the postwar one

Katie Dill on how postwar construction copied the same style again and again, and why today's AI-built work is starting to look the same.

Oct 2026
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Where do we draw the line with "good enough" software?

Vibe coding made good enough software nearly free to produce, so the real question is no longer whether we can build it, but how much it matters if it is wrong.

Oct 2026
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Natural selection of interactions

David Lightbown on how software interactions evolve: difficult ones die off, simple successful ones get reused and refined.

Dec 2017
Idea

What widely-used software does this?

Jonathan Adamczewski on the questions to ask when designing a feature, especially one with UI.

Mar 2017