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A new informal lunch-and-learn for designers, creatives and makers exploring where AI and design meet, hosted with Chris Armstrong at Ormeau Labs in Belfast on Thursday 10 September.
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On design, technology and whatever I'm currently obsessing over. Subscribe via RSS.
AI Will Eat Itself
Pop Will Eat Itself took their name from the idea that culture recycles itself until it feeds on its own output. Forty years on, generative AI is learning from a web it increasingly wrote, and watermarking might be part of the way out.
Connecting a Sega Mega Drive to the Internet Without Connecting It to the Internet
MegaWord has online leaderboards, but the Mega Drive never goes online. How a short code bridges a 1990s console and the modern web.
When Does a Design Stop Belonging to Its Creator?
Fender is reportedly sending cease and desist letters over Stratocaster-style guitars. A look at what happens when a product design becomes so iconic it stops being a product and becomes a category.
72 Hours With Claude Fable
I made an endless racer with my kids using Claude Fable, hours before the US government blocked access to it for foreign nationals and Anthropic had to pull it. This is what we built in the window.
Your Product Is Their Feature
Apple is reportedly building AI calorie tracking into the iPhone. Bad news if that's your startup. A look at Sherlocking, platform power and why value is moving from functionality to trust, community and workflow.
Life Beyond the Feed
On personal websites, owning your own corner of the internet, and why authenticity is becoming more valuable than reach.
MVP to Meaningful
AI has made it easier than ever to ship an MVP. But MVPs are not the finished article. They're proofs of possibility. The real climb begins when you try to make something meaningful that people actually want to use.
Claude Design, Google Stitch and why design is most certainly "not cooked"
The launch of Claude for Design and Google Stitch sparked another wave of "design is cooked" takes. I think the opposite is true. AI is raising the baseline, but it's also making taste, judgement and original thinking more valuable than ever.
Building MegaWord: Bringing Wordle to the Sega Mega Drive
How I built MegaWord, a Wordle demake for the Sega Mega Drive, using SGDK, AI tooling, pixel art pipelines and real hardware constraints.
Hello and what this is
An introduction to Tim Potter's site, covering product design, creative technology, AI, games, tools and experimental software projects.
