Choosing became the work
Hick's Law didn't fail, the menu did. On AI tool fatigue, from a designer who ships with AI and is knackered anyway.
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Notes on design and how I work.
99% Fake
I shot one frame with hard light and clean geometry. A detector called it 99% AI. The machine read craft as prompt.
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What the interview didn't ask
Craft is becoming abundant. Judgment isn't. The interview tested the part of the job machines are absorbing fastest.
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The domain changes. The craft doesn't.
Most job specs lump domain knowledge and design craft into one category. Craft takes fifteen years to build. Domain knowledge takes about three months to acquire.
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Subjectivity is what makes art powerful. In a design review, it's what kills it.
A photograph means different things to different people. That's the point. In a design critique, that same logic becomes the problem.
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On designing for trust
Trust isn't a feature. It's the receipt of every small decision a system made while the user wasn't watching.
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