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Hello 🎇 Last week I focused almost entirely on AI, this issue is a deliberate change of subject. Apart from a mention the coming weeks' BIID sessions, there is no AI in it at all. It is about direction instead. Over the course of a year I watch a good many design businesses at close quarters, and the pattern I see most clearly is that a business goes where it is driven. The designers who chart ...

Hello 🎃 I use AI every day. It drafts, sorts, checks and summarises. It hasn’t made my weeks shorter, but it does allow me to achieve - without exaggeration - three times as much, and I recommend designers use it to boost both their productivity and the quality of their work. I am not writing as a sceptic. And yet, after a week in which almost every meeting turned to AI, the conversation that s...

Hello 🍂 There is a particular energy to the last quarter of the year: enough time left for a final sweep of the to-do list, and enough distance from January to settle next year's plan calmly, well before the panic of new year's resolutions sets in.  This newsletter is also about the unglamorous part of running a design business: the parts nobody photographs, which hold everything else up. The b...