Matthias Ott

We are all makers. Making is how we learn and grow. You shape a thing, and it reacts, it pushes back, and that’s how you find out what it’s made of. Nowhere is this more true than on the Web. You only learn how to design and build for this fluid, unpredictable, edgeless medium by making things with it. You write a line of CSS, the material answers – immediately, honestly, in the browser – and you know something you didn’t know a minute ago. Do that for years and you have judgment: you can tell whether something merely works or is actually good.

Now we’re told that coding is solved and that the models can design. That we’re the human in the loop now. But what does our work become when we stop touching it? What does the Web we make become? And what do we become?