Design

Immediately after watching How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude | Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic), the tinkery part of my brain lit up and I found myself ordering a twenty-dollar M5StickC PLUS. The Claude Desktop Buddy GitHub repo code has everything you need to run the basic ASCII pets (18 variations!) and a GIF-pets example starring the Bufo froge. But, did I want ASCII pets? No. Bufo GIFs? No. I wanted Clawd GIFs. Animations of Claude’s mascot. ...

Following the release of Fable in early June, I thought a fun Claude Design + Fable project would be creating a virtual version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies Deck, a set of lateral thinking dilemmas I’ve long admired. I got started shortly before our brilliantly boneheaded government made the questionable move of taking away our access to Fable. So, let’s pause for hamstrings. Anyway, I was more interested in initial output than a process of refinement, and what follows is all the former and none of the latter. A documentation of the process, if you will. ...

Bad energy.

I love that I can have an idea, and because of agentic tools, shortly thereafter have a result. ...

What was I up to about 20 years ago? Thanks to the Web Design Museum, you, too, can be transported back to earlier days. ...

At the risk of turning my site into a clock blog… Would that really be so bad? 🤔 Anyway, more clocks! ...

Aren’t all designers moved by the display of time? A functional object with design potential that provides real-time feedback. What more could you ask for? When I started coding with ai, I built a lot of clocks in different styles as a repeatable excercise to help me learn the process. I didn’t spend too much time on any of them, but I was reasonably happy with the way this slide clock turned out on desktop (sadly, not mobile-friendly). ...

Some clocks I’m obsessed with. ...