2026s on Greg Walsh - Design Researcher

AI is the Team You Can't Afford to Hire

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:39:47 -0400

There’s a big problem with the way that I see people use AI in their design work. A lot of times people treat AI as an answering machine, meaning you ask it a question or you tell it to do something and it just gives you something back. I have seen student designers overly rely on it. I’ve seen student designers dismiss it entirely. I have seen professional designers over-rely as well as dismiss it. In reality, neither side of that spectrum is useful to understanding how AI can help in a design practice.

Goodbye Chair

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:10:55 +0000

I got rid of the barber’s chair as my desk chair. It was much too heavy.

POSSE and Social Media

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:42:37 +0000

I’ve always wanted to control my social media from my main website and send messages out from there. I recently read about POSSE, which Google says is: > POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) in the context of the Fediverse refers to the strategy of posting content on a personal, self-hosted website (like WordPress or Hugo) and then automatically sharing it to decentralized platforms, such as Mastodon or PixelFed, via protocols like ActivityPub. This approach ensures you own your data while still reaching audiences in the federated, decentralized network. I first read out it on the Indie Web site on their creatively titled article POSSE. I’d love to figure out how to pop things I put here out to Bluesky and Mastodon. I’ll probably keep my Instagram and Flickr where they are.