Every website starts out loving you, then one day, it turns on you. Enshittification by Design exposes how beautiful, user-friendly interfaces quietly become manipulative tools built to trap you. It’s not a glitch in tech — it’s the business model,...
Your privacy shouldn’t be a scavenger hunt hidden in settings menus. In the AI era, every default switch is an ethical stance—and too many companies still choose exploitation over trust. If you think “opt-out” equals user consent, think again…
While new design projects might not be on the top of your mind heading into the holiday season and end of the year, there are still new tools for designers and productivity to help you stay on track. Even if...
AI video isn’t the future—it’s already eating the internet alive. From fake influencers and auto-generated TikToks to corporate “spokespeople” who don’t exist, the flood of synthetic content is rewriting what’s real online. The question is: when everything can be faked,...
AI is turning the web into one big pastel gradient with rounded corners. Brutalism is the middle finger we need — raw, jarring, and impossible to fake. In a sea of safe, AI-generated beauty, ugly might be the only honest...
Dark mode is the Comic Sans of our time—born useful, hijacked by aesthetics, and now forced on users. It’s not kinder to your eyes, often wrecks accessibility, and turns UX into a design monoculture. Looking “premium” on Dribbble doesn’t make...
“Evergreen” web design sounds noble, but in reality, it’s just safe, bland, and creatively bankrupt. Designers chasing timelessness are often just afraid to take risks—and that fear is killing originality on the web.
AI browsers aren’t just changing how we surf the web—they’re rewriting the rules of the internet itself. Instead of visiting websites, we’ll soon consume summaries of them, filtered through someone else’s algorithm.