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56,966 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0b68b-4cda-7307-ac1e-bfe7784f7375", "title": "Jonas Downey", "url": "https://jonas.do", "published_at": "2026-09-07T05:20:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd0c1d14d9", "title": "Stop lending your personal credibility to AI", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2026-08-01-stop-lending-your-credibility-to-ai/", "published_at": "2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd0c6ef664", "title": "It's hard to be good at your tech job right now", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2026-06-06-your-tech-job/", "published_at": "2026-06-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd0c85dbc6", "title": "Designing the wrong way is finally right", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2026-04-22-designing-the-wrong-way/", "published_at": "2026-04-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd0d78e34c", "title": "How to build a resilient design team", "url": 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"01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd126209a8", "title": "Processing painful work exits", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2022-11-05-processing-painful-work-exits/", "published_at": "2022-11-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd12f44194", "title": "To manage or not to manage?", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2022-10-19-to-manage-or-not/", "published_at": "2022-10-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd130cf005", "title": "Expansive and reductive modes of creative thinking", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2022-02-12-reduction-and-expansion/", "published_at": "2022-02-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd13ce9bad", "title": "Software’s missing humanities", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2022-02-07-software-humanities/", "published_at": "2022-02-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd13f80f79", "title": "“Should designers code?” is an obsolete debate", "url": 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"2021-08-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1636134d", "title": "Staying vulnerable", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2021-05-16-staying-vulnerable/", "published_at": "2021-05-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd16d57608", "title": "This website stinks", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2021-05-08-this-website-stinks/", "published_at": "2021-05-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd17a21a12", "title": "Surviving through creative low points", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2021-04-09-surviving-through-creative-low-points/", "published_at": "2021-04-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd17eb037c", "title": "Software gardening and death", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2021-03-03-software-gardening-and-death/", "published_at": "2021-03-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd18e0795c", "title": "How money dictates design decisions", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2021-02-23-how-money-dictates-design-decisions/", "published_at": "2021-02-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1997375a", "title": "Achieving “simple design”", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2020-07-08-simple-design/", "published_at": "2020-07-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1a616ad1", "title": "How to focus in an open office", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2019-08-22-open-office/", "published_at": "2019-08-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1a788618", "title": "Nobody really owns product work", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2019-06-12-nobody-really-owns-product-work/", "published_at": "2019-06-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1abd2244", "title": "The right amount of perfect", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2019-01-31-the-right-amount-of-perfect/", "published_at": "2019-01-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1b2ce684", "title": "Working in quality time instead of clock time", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2018-10-09-working-in-quality-time-instead-of-clock-time/", "published_at": "2018-10-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1beaa5a6", "title": "How you’re being manipulated by software", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2018-09-17-how-youre-being-manipulated-by-software/", "published_at": "2018-09-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1c21ab19", "title": "Software is breaking our brains and businesses", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2018-03-12-these-software-features-are-breaking-our-brains-and-businesses/", "published_at": "2018-03-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1c6e1f96", "title": "An ode to experimental design", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2018-02-23-an-ode-to-experimental-design/", "published_at": "2018-02-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd1c7a29ca", "title": "The mortality and joy of productivity", 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"https://jonas.do/writing/2016-02-03-knowing-the-words-is-half-the-battle/", "published_at": "2016-02-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd240800e1", "title": "A rallying cry for the Weird Wild Web", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2015-09-25-a-rallying-cry-for-the-weird-wild-web/", "published_at": "2015-09-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd24918d34", "title": "The special recipe for delight", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2015-06-03-the-special-recipe-for-delight/", "published_at": "2015-06-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd254a4870", "title": "Asking why", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2015-01-26-asking-why/", "published_at": "2015-01-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-e202-72bd-b3f1-99bd2569e55e", "title": "Strategies for getting feedback (and not hating it)", "url": "https://jonas.do/writing/2015-01-20-strategies-for-getting-feedback-and-not-hating-it/", "published_at": "2015-01-20T00:00:00+00:00" 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2026

Jonas Downeyoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Stop lending your personal credibility to AIoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2026
It's hard to be good at your tech job right noworiginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Designing the wrong way is finally rightoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026

2025

How to build a resilient design teamoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2025
Reigniting the spark of humanist software designoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2025

2024

Building community on Blueskyoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2024
Own your weirdnessoriginal ↗
11 May 2024
How to make a great case studyoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2024

2023

Year in revieworiginal ↗
31 Dec 2023
Why side projects are essential for creatives—and employers should embrace themoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2023
Threads & the terrible greatness of everything at onceoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2023
The daily haikuoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2023

2022

The soul of a companyoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2022
Processing painful work exitsoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2022
To manage or not to manage?original ↗
19 Oct 2022
Expansive and reductive modes of creative thinkingoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2022
Software’s missing humanitiesoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2022

2021

“Should designers code?” is an obsolete debateoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2021
How to keep your work and personal computing separateoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2021
A recipe for design job searching & interviewingoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2021
The eternal challenge of making one UI do two thingsoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2021
Reviewing the Safari redesign in iOS 15original ↗
8 Aug 2021
Staying vulnerableoriginal ↗
16 May 2021
This website stinksoriginal ↗
8 May 2021
Surviving through creative low pointsoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
Software gardening and deathoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2021
How money dictates design decisionsoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2021

2020

Achieving “simple design”original ↗
8 Jul 2020

2019

How to focus in an open officeoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2019
Nobody really owns product workoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2019
The right amount of perfectoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2019

2018

Working in quality time instead of clock timeoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2018
How you’re being manipulated by softwareoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2018
Software is breaking our brains and businessesoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2018
An ode to experimental designoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2018

2017

The mortality and joy of productivityoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2017
Move slowly and fix thingsoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2017
The unnecessary fragmentation of design jobsoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2017
How to launch software changes without pissing people offoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2017
Strategies for building a dual-platform mobile apporiginal ↗
5 Mar 2017

2016

The underappreciated value of incremental designoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2016
The art of designing with heartoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2016
Just keep chipping away at itoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2016
Why we need paid family leave in the U.S.original ↗
9 Jun 2016
Let’s stop trivializing design workoriginal ↗
12 May 2016
Why I love ugly, messy interfaces — and you probably do toooriginal ↗
6 Apr 2016
How we made an iPhone app on the sideoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2016
Knowing the words is half the battleoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2016

2015

A rallying cry for the Weird Wild Weboriginal ↗
25 Sept 2015
The special recipe for delightoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2015
Asking whyoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2015
Strategies for getting feedback (and not hating it)original ↗
20 Jan 2015

2014

Writing-first designoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2014
The power of free design: why you should do pro-bono work (sometimes)original ↗
26 Aug 2014
It’s OK not to use toolsoriginal ↗
21 May 2014

2013

On writing interfaces welloriginal ↗
24 Sept 2013
A message from some far off staroriginal ↗
5 Aug 2013
Tips for quick and flexible design prototypingoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2013
What my daughter taught me about worryingoriginal ↗
2 May 2013
Learning programming made me a better designeroriginal ↗
22 Feb 2013
An ode to writing at nightoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2013

2011

Building a website with Symphonyoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2011
This Ephemeral Yearoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2011

2009

Glitch artoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2009
Collecting lifeoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2009