Eddie Lou·Oct 5Motion Is How AI Products Earn TrustOver the past two weeks I have argued that motion is functional and that motion belongs in the design system. This week, the specific…
InDesign Systems CollectivebyEddie Lou·Sep 29Motion Belongs in the Design SystemLast week I made the argument that motion is functional, not decorative. That framing is only useful if teams actually operationalize it…
Eddie Lou·Sep 21What Motion Is Actually ForFor most of the last decade, motion in digital interfaces was treated as visual flourish. Something you added at the end of the design…
InDesign Systems CollectivebyEddie Lou·Sep 16A Short History of the Design SystemDesign systems feel like they have always been part of the practice. They have not. The discipline has a real history that most…
Eddie Lou·Sep 9The Future That Was Waiting for the Web Designer to Come BackLast week I wrote about the history that produced today. The web designer of 1996 who did everything, the specialization that emerged over…
InDesign Systems CollectivebyEddie Lou·Aug 31The Web Designer of 1996 Understood Something the Industry Spent Thirty Years ForgettingThe design engineering discipline is often described as new. It is not. It is the recovery of something the industry had at the very…
InDesign Systems CollectivebyEddie Lou·Aug 25The Art of Putting Things Back TogetherLast week I wrote about decomposition, the practice of taking complex problems apart along the right seams. This week is the second half of…
InDesign Systems CollectivebyEddie Lou·Aug 17The Art of Taking Things ApartThe first move in any systems thinking practice is decomposition. Breaking something complex into pieces small enough to understand. It…
Eddie Lou·Aug 10Trust Is the Design Problem of 2026. Nobody Is Solving It Well Enough.Every AI feature shipped over the past two years has drawn from the same finite reservoir of user trust. Many of them have not deposited…A response icon1A response icon1
Eddie Lou·Aug 4The Designer, the Engineer, and the Design Engineer Are Becoming One Role.Something the industry has been reluctant to say directly is happening in product organizations right now. The boundaries between design…
