I’m excavating a series of old essays from a defunct blog that feel pertinent to current conversations in design and artificial intelligence This essay was first shared on August 07, 2017Since the introduction of the Mac, and the Adobe-Quark-DTP worldview that followed, computer-based design tooling has largely revolved around dragging rectangles. Want to insert a photo? Drag a rectangle. Want to change the width of your columns or gutters? Drag a bunch of rectangles. Want to take a screen de...

I’m excavating a series of old essays from a defunct blog that feel pertinent to current conversations in design and artificial intelligence This essay was first shared on August 07, 2017Since the introduction of the Mac, and the Adobe-Quark-DTP worldview that followed, computer-based design tooling has largely revolved around dragging rectangles. Want to insert a photo? Drag a rectangle. Want to change the width of your columns or gutters? Drag a bunch of rectangles. Want to take a screen de...