# Jess Telford

Loves building and creating. Especially websites, design systems and games.

## Find Jess on

- [GitHub](https://github.com/jesstelford)

- [**GraphQL for designers** 
Why do developers love GraphQL and how can designers best work with them?
November 2022](/content/blog/graph-ql-for-designers/index.html)

## More posts from other Thinkmill voices

- [**Designing beyond the median user** 
For seventy years software has shipped one shape to every user. The confluence of design systems, headless platforms, and agent-native exposure has coalesced to make that constraint optional. A retrospective of the median-user problem and the new architectural horizon now opening.
June 2026 ·10 min read](/content/blog/designing-beyond-the-median-user/index.html)
- [**What engineering teams owe for the AI speed boost** 
AI-assisted development genuinely accelerated engineering teams, but many organisations stopped at the velocity gains and ignored the accumulating debt. The costs: code nobody fully understands, weakened code review culture, bloated dependency trees, and architectural decisions made without real judgement about tradeoffs...
May 2026 ·4 min read](/content/blog/what-engineering-teams-owe-for-the-ai-speed-boost/index.html)
- [**A behavioural framework for the monsters in your team** 
The AI in Design 2026 report captures a profession mid-mutation. The "Frankenjob" label the coverage put on it misses the seam where the real work happens.
May 2026 ·5 min read](/content/blog/a-behavioural-framework-for-the-monsters-in-your-team/index.html)

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