The Open Hiring Harness is a spec for portable professional identity. It was built for humans — but it turns out agents need it too.

Introducing the Open Hiring Harness

AI can generate assumptions, but it can't judge which ones matter. Learn why designers must own the load-bearing beliefs that shape product success.

Don't leave assumptions up to AI

An open design library with an MCP server that gives Claude real-time access to usability heuristics.

Introducing Human Standards: an open design library with an MCP server

AI commoditised design execution. What remains valuable? The human judgment to know what's worth making. That's taste.

AI ate the design process. What's left is taste.

A study on whether being polite to LLMs improves their output.

Hostile and effusive tones boost LLM creativity

Real UX comes from enforcement mechanisms that make user research non-negotiable. Here's how organisations escape FaUX.

RUX: Fighting fake UX with real UX (and what it actually takes)

Workshops that go nowhere. Research that's ignored. Designers with no influence. It's called FaUX — Fake UX — and it's costing more than you think.

FaUX: The rise of fake UX (and how to know if you're practicing it)

Interface design is shifting from crafting screens to defining the grammar from which infinite appropriate interfaces can emerge.

Design for grammar, not layout

Engage in dialogue with your imagined future self to set goals, learn from regrets, and gain confidence for your hero's journey.

Why talking to your future self can craft your hero's journey

Types of cognitive load, and solutions to reduce it, including chunking & progressive disclosure.

Reducing cognitive load for usability

Every startup is built on assumptions. Can you identify the load-bearing belief that broke?

Assumption Autopsy

Test your product instincts. Prioritise features for a new B2C Fitness App MVP based on impact and effort.

Product prioritisation game

A searchable database of effective prompt patterns for designers.

Prompt pattern library

Interactive tool helping designers decide when to use AI vs. traditional methods.

AI decision tree

Evaluate the data ethics of your AI features across 6 key decision areas.

AI data ethics canvas

Helps teams assess whether a component should be built, bought, or AI-generated.

Component complexity calculator

Converts design tokens between different formats/systems.

Design token translator

Auto-generates accessibility annotations for Figma frames.

Accessibility annotation generator

Get matched with relevant AI capabilities for your design problem.

AI capability matcher

Quantify and prioritize design debt across your product.

Design debt calculator

Evaluate feature ideas based on evidence, not opinions.

Feature confidence scorer

Document emerging patterns in AI-powered interfaces.

AI design patterns catalog

3-minute interactive lessons on design + AI topics.

Micro-lessons library

Template helping designers document their work systematically.

The perfect middle

Assumption Autopsy

Product prioritisation game

Prompt pattern library

Guidebeam

Human Standards

Cumulative Design

Kindred