A small collection of websites, essays, and tools I keep returning to — mostly around design, fabrication, interfaces, and the growing overlap between designers and engineers.
Experimental Websites
- Since You Arrived — Taken — Shows what websites can infer about you the moment you visit them.
- Since You Arrived — Live counters showing what humanity has collectively been doing since you opened the page.
- GCode Vase Maker — Generates procedural vase forms directly as G-code.
Design & Industrial Design
- Caligra C100 Developer Terminal — Pentagram — A beautifully restrained developer-focused hardware concept.
- Pentagram Industrial & Product Design — A strong archive of industrial and product design work.
- Sidebar.io — My go-to source for design and development updates.
Essays & Articles
- The Future of Design Jobs — On how AI is changing the role of designers.
- What Is a Design Engineer? — A good introduction to the design engineer role.
- The Adolescence of Technology — Dario Amodei — A thoughtful essay on the current phase of technological growth.
- The Death of Design — On how design roles are evolving alongside AI and automation.
- Can AI Help You Build Your Design Portfolio? — Practical ways AI can assist portfolio building.
Design Engineering & Learning
- Design Engineers — “People who are really serious about user interface should be able to implement it themselves.”
- DesignEngineer.io — Job board focused on design engineering roles.
- The Odin Project — One of the best free resources for learning web development.
- AI Goodies — Where I found many of these links.