Luke Wroblewski

The Ask LukeW feature on my website has been answering people's questions about digital product design for over three years. How well it answers depends on the content available to it. So in addition to improving conten…

design

Several years ago I read Jeff Hawkins’s A Thousand Brains, which dug into his theories on how our brain works. In it he argued intelligence comes from thousands of cortical columns that each learn their own model of the…

physics

Apple

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intentapp.dev

After seeing lots of posts over the years arguing that design has become homogenized, I decided to pull together historical and modern designs for a few different product categories: TVs, phones, cars, etc. You don't ha…

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mathematics

In today's AI-powered software, you manage agents, they manage more agents, and those agents manage even more agents. Chat threads break with that scale. We need to know what agents are planning, what they've already do…

For as long as I've been working on design systems (20+ years, oof!), I've seen the same pattern play out... design teams invest a lot of time in creating a system, then struggle to keep it up to date as the actual prod…

designAI agents

The software profession has spent years designing, developing, and shipping tools. Tools that, when learned, give people the power to create reports, videos, programs, and much more. But the pervasiveness of tools may h…

A persistent attribute of AI-powered applications is their propensity to generate text: lots and lots of text. Text requires scanning and scrolling for the useful bits and too much of it gets pretty monotonous pretty qu…

discipline

As AI can agents tackle more work, we naturally assign more work to them. The most notable example this week was OpenAI's use of 10,000 concurrent agents to propose a solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Probl…

OpenAI

Just about every chat-based AI application kicks things off with a question. What do you want to do? Ask anything! They just assume that people always know what to ask for and how. But what if we start AI-powered experi…

Last year, I walked through the evolution of AI products to date starting with AI models behind the scenes and ending with an assertion that "the inevitable next step is for AI models to collaborate and interact to get…

AI agents

Big AI models like ChatGPT and Claude get all the attention, but the continually increasing amount of fast, low cost models means today's software can embed little bits of intelligence anywhere they're needed. And when…

AnthropicOpenAI

The Ask LukeW feature on my Web site has been answering people's product design questions using my writings, talks, images, and videos for over three years. During that time, I've seen people ask lots of different kinds…

design

A few years ago I wrote about the upcoming shift from canvas-centric image and video editing tools to object-centric ones. At the time it was mostly early demos and research projects hinting at what object-centric editi…

Large scale AI models can produce an innumerable variety of output (text, images, code). In most applications, though, teams want very specific output aligned with brand, design, and coding guidelines. An intentional st…

design

There's a growing sentiment that AI lets you do everyone else's job: designers picking up Claude Code, developers spinning up Figma Make. But maybe the most interesting question isn't "what other jobs can I take on?" bu…

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