Crux of spotting saas moat for future : What promises, under deadlines, fail to deliver at scale even with AI agents because of human limitations in using them If anyone can spin up agents, workflows, and internal tools quickly, where does something still systematically break at scale?

The ability and willingness to care for someone even when it's inconvenient to you is the most beautiful behaviour. It's a timeless enduring beauty, the kind that doesn't decay with age.

hear me out: • @signal.org forks gecko • banishes superfluous ai • makes properly private browser • hires me to do it

Any designer on the TL works on products that decide what is safe, valid, correct or worth doing in environments where mistakes cost real things (money, safety, trust, legality) Like where the cost of errors, failure is too high. Where mistakes cost money, lawsuits, or lives?

I really do adore ❤️ gameuidatabase.com. It is an amazing resource; the amount of love and skill that has poured into it is clear to see. #Gaming #UI #Design #UIDesign #GamingUI #GameDev #Frontend #UIDev

On touchscreens and UI controls acuity.design/touchscreens... as Wired has article about car controls and buttons. We did a lot of work on this about 10 years ago. #accessibility

What's the most impressive project you've seen shipped in 15 days

yo dawg i herd u didn't liek ai so we put some ai in yo comments about ai so it would come out lookin liek u liek ai www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Brian made another amazing book for open hardware, industrial design folks makeityourself.org Digital book called Make it Yourself: 1000 Useful Things to Make & it's basically a showcase of some of the best open hardware & DIY projects from across the Internet

It's my book's release day! The Patterns of Comics is now officially published, featuring an extended data-driven analysis of the structures used in 350+ comics from Asia, Europe, and North America analyzing diversity, regularity, and change over time www.visuallanguagelab.com/poc

@meganakpeters.bsky.social "My research aims to reveal how the brain represents and uses uncertainty, and performs adaptive computations based on noisy, incomplete information" sites.google.com/site/meganak... Wow!

Absolutely delighted to keynote Cooperative AI in Istanbul today: telling everyone how we built @transkribus.bsky.social, and how it has flourished under READ-COOP. I usually speak about this to DH, Library & Archive audiences - great to show our wares to researchers of coops, & fab discussions.

Rowboat A lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets rowboat.net/product/ "Open one million rows of data in one second. Your data stays private in any browser or on your desktop. No code or complex queries are needed to visualize your data"

Hi everyone! ✨ I'm an independent artist & designer who enjoys creating scientifically-informed & fantastical visuals in 2D & 3D. Prev. the establishing Art Director of the award-winning Quanta Magazine. OlenaShmahalo.com Stuff I do ↓ #SciArt #Illustration #3Dart #Design 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🐡

Tl; DR Understand discrete nature of tokenization & statistical limits behind modeling continuous phenomena Understand the living evolving context that static training data can't capture Make creative leaps & connections between unexpected disparate things that statistical models can't generate

What cannot be statistically modelled in an LLM’S vector space? What is unquantifiable in your work for which you cannot create correlations and patterns? What kind of work cannot be reduced to probability distributions over tokens

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

Regenerative UX by @alexgrantwright.bsky.social uxdesign.cc/regenerative... "The methods commonly in use today have remained remarkably stagnant for the past 10–15 years: qualitative user interviews, journey maps, personas, prototypes, usability tests, diary studies, and so forth"

Badass : Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra sobrief.com/books/badass Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra at Mind the Product San Francisco www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBtc... "Instead of solely improving your product, concentrate on making your users better at using it"

Although I will say this, one time summative assessments have zero resemblance to knowledge and skill usage in real world use. Think about this, if you get any error in your daily work do you just scrap all of it completely or just fix that particular thing and iterate?

If Vannevar Bush, J.C.R. Licklider, Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Alan Kay were to work at modern Series A startups as designers, what would their workflow have been like?

What kind of software business makes scaling unnecessary? What kind of software output generates so much value density per user, per employee that the company doesn’t need to scale headcount, bureaucracy, or user base to sustain itself?

Got radicalized by teachers teaching to the test for memorization based exams. Got me researching about project based learning, open book assessments, open education Got deradicalized again by realizing those exams are there for a reason : easiest to scale for millions

I have previously worked in an architecture team and it was great. AND...

AI-assisted coding is like the blind men and the elephant. Everyone's experiencing it from different vantage points. Makes it genuinely hard to know whose experience is worth learning from. Sketched a graph to illustrate & wrote about the patterns I'm seeing. blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/26/y...

Attaching a code-generating firehose to our development process that was largely trained on short-form code examples means we need to really stay on top of the bigger picture as it emerges one test and one refactoring at a time. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/t...

I wrote a blog post today "The Microskills Theory of Programming": coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/10/the-...

I found the term for what I've been doing tacitly for years: conceptual blending. It's the practice of intentionally mixing disparate disciplines to discover novel intersections that don't exist in any single field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept...

Transferable Skills Are Cool. But Do They Transfer? – Education Rickshaw educationrickshaw.com/2020/03/27/t...

A cognitive science research question At what level of performance of a skill can we identify pattern of thinking that can be translated from one domain to another A question of transferrability of a skill

OOUX: A Foundation for Interaction Design by Sophia V. Prater alistapart.com/article/ooux...

In your field, what’s the smallest valuable act you repeat that actually makes you better? If you had to turn that act into a daily exercise for others, what would it look like?

One thing I realized, difference between quality of an ivy professor's assignments vs online course instructors

'This report looks at who gets to be an artist in the UK today, and considers whether access to a career in this vital industry is equitable and accessible'. Such a relief we've got the White Paper on post-16 skills and education deeply committed to rectifying this anomaly in England... 2/2

'Are you from a professional family, went to private school, have a postgraduate degree, and live in London with a load of cash in the bank? If so, congrats – you’re three times more likely to become an artist than anyone else.' 1/2

What customer segments consistently reject products designed by elite-educated teams because the solutions miss their actual pain points?

KG-PLPPM: A Knowledge Graph-Based Personal Learning Path Planning Method Used in Online Learning mdpi.com/2079-9292/14... Using knowledge graphs, the method personalizes learning paths by mapping concept similarity, learner mastery, and planning optimal routes.

MOOCCube: A Large-scale Data Repository for NLP Applications in MOOCs aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai... "A large-scale data repository of over 700 MOOC courses, 100k concepts, 8 million student behaviors with an external resource"

Vadalog is a system for performing complex logic reasoning tasks over knowledge graphs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadalog How could Vadalog's graph-based knowledge representation be adapted to model student learning pathways and competency networks?

EDUKG: a Heterogeneous Sustainable K-12 Educational Knowledge Graph arxiv.org/pdf/2210.12228 github.com/THU-KEG/EDUKG A systematic literature review of knowledge graph construction and application in education www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I think the reason why the term taste in design is so nebulous and mysterious because unlike devs designers dont have an industry practice of documentation. Almost every piece of software, any library, api, framework has docu for it, its an established practice to write docs.

Is there any lab that takes research in HCI and converts it into practical workflows, methods, techniques that UI designers, PMs in industry can use? Think HCI research to chunkable PM routine pipeline

A Philosophy of Software Design by John K. Ousterhout www.amazon.in/Philosophy-S... "This book addresses topic of software design: how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently"

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

When you think about it what exactly is the end goal of welfare, of social good, can we describe it in concrete mundane routines and touchpoints and outcomes? If we strip the moralism away, the end goal of welfare can be described as:

UI Design worksheet Inspired by Five Design Sheets fds-design.github.io IxD process steps by Jonathan Korman

Fun times. It's going to be a busy week 🙂 For those wondering, this is exactly the reason I wanted to soft-launch the branding: to give me time to deliver the feedback to the creators. Beyond that, I'm incredibly pleased by the reaction to my own team's work. www.theverge.com/news/792368/...

New video is OUT! - How We're Building Audacity 4 youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38?...

Has anyone on the TL tried recreating a prototype from CHI papers via industry tools? (figma, framer, rive, vibecoding) I want to figure out how to design this Augmented Physics: Creating Interactive and Embedded Physics Simulations from Static Textbook Diagrams arxiv.org/abs/2405.18614

Each of them imagined interfaces for a world that didn’t exist yet. They worked backward from a desired cognitive state Engelbart: “collective intelligence,” Kay: “kids as authors of media,” Nelson: “freedom from paper metaphors.”