HTML images just got better, with the subtlest change to your codebase Photo by Adi Suyatno I know what you’re thinking. Scott, I landed on Medium on a small but not mobile-small display and the...
In the high-stakes economy of today, the cost of a friction-heavy interface is no longer just “lost clicks”, but potentially millions in wasted engineering spend and lost business value. As a veteran...
In the first part of this series , we talked about the Decision Node Audit . We mapped out the internal workings of our AI system to pinpoint the exact moments it makes decisions based on...
Last October, I was sitting in a hotel room in Lisbon, the night before I was supposed to demo a project management tool my team had spent four months building. The hotel Wi-Fi was doing that thing...
This article is a sponsored by MacPaw Your grandmother’s vacuum was a trusty but ugly workhorse hidden in a dark closet. Dyson turned that practical tool into an aspirational product, one you love...
More interfaces now render while the response is still being generated. The UI begins in one state, then updates as more data comes in. You see this in chat apps, logs, transcription tools, and other...
May has a way of sneaking in with longer days, softer light, and that first real hint of summer in the air. It’s the season of fresh ideas and just enough energy to start something new , or finally...
Through many discussions with industry colleagues, we’ve started hearing a phrase more often when swapping stories about AI adoption: “Now I don’t have to bug [someone].” Product designers don’t need...
In early 2026, I noticed that the UX designer’s toolkit seemed to shift overnight. The industry standard “Should designers code?” debate was abruptly settled by the market, not through a consensus of...
For web professionals, session management is a balancing act between user experience, cybersecurity, and resource usage. For people with disabilities, it is more than that — it is a barrier to buying...
Imagine that you need to improve the UX of a legacy system . A system that has been silently working in the background for almost a decade. It’s slow, half-broken, unreliable, and severely outdated —...
Designing for autonomous agents presents a unique frustration. We hand a complex task to an AI, it vanishes for 30 seconds (or 30 minutes), and then it returns with a result. We stare at the screen....
Generated by DALL-E Turning knowledge into reusable AI agent instructions for a small, fast-moving team. We're a small Android team at Medium, just a handful of engineers maintaining and evolving the...
When I joined Medium , it was because I still believe in the internet as a place for ideas. Not noise, not outrage, but content that connects people through shared curiosity. Medium’s mission is to...
Photo by Mario Verduzco on Unsplash Medium Android App — Migrating from Apollo Kotlin 3 to 4: Lessons Learned In this post, I’ll share my experience migrating the Medium Android app from Apollo...