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Jun 4
Software spent 70 years designing for a "median user" who doesn't exist.
@ronaldaveling on why that constraint may be softening and what design systems, headless content, and AI agents change about it 👇
In the 1950s the US Air Force measured thousands of pilots and found not one was average across 10 dimensions. The "average man" didn't exist. Software spent 70 years designing for him anyway...
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May 29
AI let mid-level engineers ship what used to need a senior. The productivity was real.
The cost showed up later: code that worked but nobody fully understood, reviews that drifted into skimming, dependencies added because they were easy to generate.
@jeprisk on what the speed boost actually costs, and how teams stay sharp from here.
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May 22
Cross-disciplinarity isn’t new. @ronaldaveling on what the AI in Design 2026 "Frankenjob" framing missed:
May 22
“Frankenjob” is an cool POV on the AI in Design 2026 report.
But it overlooks the fact that teams like @thethinkmill have been doing the cross-disciplinary dance for years. AI didn’t create the practice; but it sure made it visible at scale.
Thoughts: thinkmill.com.au/blog/a-beha…
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May 6
AusCycling had a growing network of websites and a patchwork of tools to manage them. We built a multi-site CMS and token-powered theming system so editors can launch new branded sites in minutes.
Shipped in time for the Olympics 🥇
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Apr 2
Government services have to work for everyone. Accessible, secure, and built to last beyond the team that ships them.
We've been doing that work with agencies like DFAT, DAFF, ASIC, and the Queensland Government.
We've now given it a page 👇
thinkmill.com.au/services/go…
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Mar 24
Medical annotation tools. MCP servers. Conversational assistants. AI-assisted finance workflows.
We've shipped a lot of AI work.
Here's how we approach it:
thinkmill.com.au/services/ai
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Jan 22
At Thinkmill, design is a conversation between multiple practices, not something that “designers” do, and others wait to build.
It encompasses everything that contributes to a positive user experience outcome.
Find out more about how we work 👇
thinkmill.com.au/services/pr…
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Jan 15
CI pipelines tend to slow down as teams scale, especially in monorepos.
In this piece @dpandiyan shares a CI pattern shaped by one of our key principles for sustainable software development: build once, consume everywhere.
thinkmill.com.au/blog/faster…
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4 Dec 2025
Great engineering comes from curiosity, and sometimes that means building your own setup from scratch.
In this article, Thinkmill engineer @dpandiyan
shares how he customised Arch Linux with Hyprland for a fully tailored development environment.
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dineshpandiyan.com/blog/arch…
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26 Nov 2025
Features don't exist in isolation. Users experience them as part of a journey.
User Journey Mapping helps us understand what users are doing, thinking, and feeling as they move through a product.
Read more about how we use it: thinkmill.com.au/method/play…
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18 Nov 2025
APIs shape the product experience long before UI work begins.
In this article, Thinkmill designer @murphytrueman shares how designers can collaborate on API design using systems thinking.
👉 blog.murphytrueman.com/p/sim…
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12 Nov 2025
We partnered with ASIC and Meld Studios to reimagine how Australia’s 3 million companies interact with Registry Services.
👉 Read the full case study: thinkmill.com.au/work/asic-r…
If you’re redesigning complex government or financial services, we’d love to help.
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10 Nov 2025
We recently published our November newsletter.
It introduces our new audit offering, @KeystoneJS updates, plus our usual list of interesting links and resources from across the web.
Read it here 👇
thinkmill.com.au/newsletter/…
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6 Nov 2025
We helped ASIC build a design system foundation to increase UX consistency and developer efficiency – unifying style guides, delivering accessible docs, and enabling teams through hands-on training.
Check out the case study 👇
thinkmill.com.au/work/asic-d…
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5 Nov 2025
Transformations power every data pipeline, but efficiency depends on how you structure them.
In this post, Thinkmill engineer Luke Bennett shares how loops and maps can make your data transformations faster and more expressive.
lukebennett.dev/posts/using-…
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31 Oct 2025
Not all UX issues are visible in the interface.
Our UX Audit looks deeper – at the code, patterns, and flows behind user friction – so teams can see what’s slowing them down, and fix it for good.
đź”— Find out more:
thinkmill.com.au/services/ux…
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28 Oct 2025
When usability and business intent drift apart, conversion and retention suffer.
Our UX Audit helps teams see where that's happening (in the interface and the stack) and how to realign both.
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22 Oct 2025
Like any other product, design systems need testing and iteration.
Our Design System Audit help your team see whether your system is accelerating delivery, or quietly slowing it down.
💡Find out more: thinkmill.com.au/services/de…
#DesignSystems
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20 Oct 2025
Are your design tokens scalable?
Are patterns usable across stacks?
Are handover flows helping or hindering?
Our Design System Audit helps you answer these questions with clarity.
👉 Find out more:
thinkmill.com.au/services/de…
#DesignSystems #WebComponents
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16 Oct 2025
#Accessibility isn’t just about compliance.
It’s about making products work for everyone and everything, with fixes that teams can actually maintain.
Take your first step towards better #A11y with our new offering: Accessibility Audits 👇
thinkmill.com.au/services/ac…
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