I'm Matt Davey, I'm a design leader at 1Password, I take photos of things and places, create what some might call art and am always agreeable to a cup of tea and a biscuit.

Recently

Measuring maturity in AI For a long time, I’ve described design as a spectrum from art to science. That spectrum still holds, but the centre is collapsing.

Norway Fjords

Spring in Norfolk

Lately

Strategy, Systems, Craft
Keep the Robots Out of the Gym Such a good post about how AI can help us but also make us unable to help.
Noise-cancelling for your screen A nice way to add some focus, just wiggle the cursor.
I have many questions about this house. Let’s start with, does the fighter jet come with the property? search.savills.com/property-det...
Well this is just lovely. This is the best kind of software, the kind that feels like it could be a story. apps.apple.com/us/app/lost-...

Lost Post App - App Store
Morphing icons with Claude This is delicious.
Well we should protect Fiona at all costs. #thetraitors
Agreeing with mostly everyone that Pluribus on Apple TV is incredible.
Fix the Signal Reframing things from an optimistic perspective is so important.
Weather based theming What a wonderfully creative way of theming a website.
Cap Watkins – Make things happen Such a good post.
Oooo bases is out on Obsidian. Now to try and ignore that and write up my notes I need.
An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art Christoph’s storytelling is so authentic, I share so many of these questions.
A conversation with Jony Ive An insightful look into Jony Ive and the purity of his views on design and it's role.
10 things I learned from 10 years at Figma
Our interfaces have lost their senses Just beautiful and so accurate as to how the industry is moving. Time to design for all senses.
Chamberí Typeface Such stunning lettering with so much character.
52 Things I Learned in 2024 I love this series of internet rabbit holes, each one wildly different from the last.
MacWhisper For anytime you have to take notes or want a summary of a YouTube video. This does local transcription for sensitive things and an AI fuelled version for everything else.
Wulkan Serif A seemingly rather standard serif but with alternate characters that make it wildly expressive. Love the mix.
100 useful coaching questions. Usually when a post starts with a number you should avoid it but this is an exception to that rule. This is a great resource if you're trying to be mindful to coach over manage. You should really be consuming Matt Rutherford's entire back catalogue, go ahead I'll wait.
A course on giving better design feedback. Such an incredible training resource, even if you believe you're great at critique. This covers so many great elements of giving and recieving feedback on your design work and it's presented in a ridiculously easy to digest way.
Articulating the definition of taste. In the age of AI, taste is ever more important to cut through the dense noise of AI generated, low quality, six fingered nonsense. This is a level of definition I haven't been able to articulate. (Sent to me by a friend)
The heirloom tomato org chart at Config 2024. You will always end up shipping your org chart so create a structure that you would want to ship. Great advice here from Nan Yu at Config, so many times we optimise for the wrong thing.

Around the internets

Listen to past episodes of my radio show on the wonders and weirdness of Norfolk.

The 1Password podcast with security and banter, cohosted by me and friends.

Coffee Roasters A running list of the UK's coffee roasters, some of which I've had and others I'm yet to.

Bucket List you can learn a lot from someone's bucket list.