WYSIWID: What you see is what it does

How concepts enable a new approach to LLM coding.

August 31, 2025 · 9 min · Daniel Jackson

The End of Agile

Why agile no longer makes sense in the LLM era.

July 18, 2023 · 10 min · Daniel Jackson

A Concept Experiment at Palantir

Lessons learned from deploying concepts at scale.

June 26, 2023 · 5 min · Daniel Jackson

Three Stages of Enlightenment

A brief intro to concept design in three parts.

May 2, 2023 · 13 min · Daniel Jackson

Dark Concepts in Software Design

The building blocks that social media apps use to control us.

March 27, 2023 · 20 min · Daniel Jackson

Conceptual models missed the point

Don Norman’s book helped improve interface design, but it also misled us.

October 18, 2022 · 6 min · Daniel Jackson

The siloing of UX design

There’s no single role for UX design. Instead it’s split up, with bad consequences.

October 14, 2022 · 7 min · Daniel Jackson

Design Moves for Software

Or how to become a great software designer.

April 18, 2022 · 6 min · Daniel Jackson

The Essence of the Essence

Save yourself the trouble of actually reading the book.

January 31, 2022 · 35 min · Daniel Jackson

Concept Design Sketchnote

Early concept design ideas, drawn by MJ Broadbent.

November 20, 2021 · 1 min · Daniel Jackson