Christopher Butler

The National Design Studio is a Scam

Doing (and Directing) Great Design Requires Detail Obsession

Single-function Devices in the World of the Everything Machine

The Best Interfaces We Never Built

The Designer's Hierarchy of Career Needs

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Why Embodied AI is the Red Line We Cannot Cross

If This, Then That, Except for When...

The Art Secret Behind All Great Design

PAC – Personal Ambient Computing

Action is Worth More Than Advice

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Good Design Comes from Looking, Great Design Comes from Looking Away

Order is Always More Important than Action in Design

Printing Everything and Owning Nothing

The Compound Interest of Small Ideas

In Defense of Screens

We Cannot Talk About AI Without Talking About Capitalism, Fascism, and Liberty

Periodical 22 – Technological Entitlement

You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown

Developing Digital Disgust

Discernment in the Digital Age

Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds

No Orphans to Ambition

From Pascal's Empty Room to Our Full Screens

What We Owe to Artificial Minds

Simplification Takes Courage

In Defense of Text Labels

A New Kind of Wholeness

The AI Debate We're Not Having