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“Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective” game hands you a mystery and then steps away. No hint system. No turn order. Just a London map, a...

Fluxx is chaos with rules. Same core engine every time, different theme each box. You change the vibe, not the fundamentals, and it still...

Some games hand you a 60-page rulebook and a headache. Others teach you in two minutes and you are already playing. Guess which ones hit...

(Spoiler: this series also doubles as board game mini reviews and recommendations.) The game “Zombicide: Green Horde” punishes lone...

From the outside, the TARDIS looks like a blue phone box. Simple. Compact. Friendly. Until you walk in… and realize it contains infinite...

In Back to the Future, the DeLorean doesn’t just take Marty to the past - it lets him fix the future. Design has one of those too. It’s...

In Edge of Tomorrow, our armored hero learns one thing very quickly: The only way out is through brutal trial and error. He dies, resets,...

Sometimes a layout dies. You kill it off during a review. You archive it quietly. You walk away muttering, “Well, that’s not making a...

In the multiverse, every version of you made a different design decision. One chose bold typography. One went full minimalist. One...

In Groundhog Day, Phil Connors lives the same day over and over - until he learns from every tiny failure, applies what he’s learned, and...

In Infinity War, Dr. Strange looks into 14,000,605 possible futures to find the one version where everything works. That’s basically...

The Federation doesn’t yell. It doesn’t use dark patterns. It doesn’t default to full-screen popups in red. Its interfaces - like its...

In Starship Troopers, the rookies are given weapons, shoved onto a drop ship, and launched into a full-blown alien war. No real intel. No...

The Borg have the most consistent design system in the galaxy. Every interface? Identical. Every ship? A basic geometric shape, with...

The Star Wars universe looks amazing. Glowing panels, holograms, endless corridors, chrome everything. But if you actually had to use any...

Worf is a warrior. He believes in honor, clarity, and hand-to-hand solutions. He also spends a surprising amount of time visibly annoyed...

HAL 9000 is sleek. HAL 9000 is intelligent. HAL 9000 will quietly remove the humans from the equation. Which is a bit of a UX fail. On...

The Jedi Council is powerful, wise, and deeply respected. It’s also the slowest decision-making body in the galaxy. Twelve masters in a...

Before touchscreen dashboards, voice-controlled apps, or smart chairs that give posture advice… There was the bridge of the USS...

Some of the best leadership in design doesn’t come with a title. No “Lead,” no “Head of,” no “Manager of Pixel-Based Destiny.” Just...

The more experience you gain, the more feedback you receive. And not all of it is a clear transmission. Some of it’s useful. Some of it’s...

When I was a younger designer, I treated user testing like a boss battle. I'd prep like I was entering a final level: 🕹️ Defend the...

If you’ve ever handed over a design project and then hovered like a satellite waiting to intercept the first draft… Congrats, you’ve...

It usually starts with small things. You reread the same Slack message three times. Your Figma file is open, but you’re just moving...

Before Figma, before wireframes, before five layers of nested components... There was paper. And a pencil. And actual human hands making...

You’ve been there. The brief says “bold but not aggressive,” “modern but with a vintage soul,” and my personal favorite - “we want it...

Giving feedback in a design review is like sending launch codes across a galaxy. You need precision. You need timing. And if something...

The prototype was clean. The flow made sense. Even the dev team liked it. Then someone said, “ I don’t like how this feels. ” Just like...

There was a point in my career when I had so many tabs open - mentally and literally - I stopped remembering why I walked into rooms. ...

Every designer goes through it. You spend hours on a piece of work. You choose every pixel with care. You feel good - maybe even proud....

One of the most underrated design skills isn’t typography, layout, or user flow. It's a translation. I’ve spent a big chunk of my career...

There was no brief. No direction. Every design decision was “ discussed with the spirits .” And I don’t mean that metaphorically. She...

When I first started teaching design, I made a rookie mistake. A student showed me their project, and I gave what I thought was "...

When logic hits the floor and bias starts steering the ship.

Because sometimes, your brain is just a cat knocking over your logic.

Because for every pixel-perfect success, there’s a graveyard of “almost” buried just outside the spotlight.

And somehow, that was the best education I could ask for.

Even if your inner imposter is screaming.