One of the greatest inventions of the last 48 hours

Working on a *massive* iconography project at the moment. Which everyone _thinks_ involves drawing lots of icons... Which it could, eventually. Right now it involves being lost in a swamp of 1000s of ye-olde PNG files, asking "why?", "what?" & "wtf?" and crashing all of my tools regularly. 1/2

Hmmm... Am I waiting because Figma's crashed, or am I waiting because Figma's running as normal and just talking ages? I honestly don't know how I can tell.

Father got lost in a maze Mother left & took the kids Zampano writing crazy things Johnny-T is editing Adding to a narrative That's spiraling around OUR #HOUSE IS SO VERY HARD TO LEAVE OUR #HOUSE ATE MY BROTHER, NOW I GRIEVE OUR #HOUSE NON-EUCLIDEAN & DEEP OUR #HOUSE GIVES THE NAVIDSONS THE CREEPS

So... Today, my work has mostly involved watching a "working" spinner in Photoshop. I can't do much else, as all laptop resources are driving the stuff behind that spinner. Fun, I guess. Yay, Photoshop?

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

Life as an Enterprise UXer goes in cycles. One moment it's "do this specific thing that you have no data for" and "we can't see the benefit in getting the data u need". The next it all falls into place and a burst of progress happens. I'd like step two to happen at some point, please.

When asked, “What is artificial intelligence?” Ted Chiang replied, “A poor choice of words in 1954.” To this day I think that is the only good answer to that question that I have seen.

One of my favorite animals is the black-footed cat. These adorable murder machines are smaller than house cats, make hunting attempts every 30 minutes after dark, and are successful 60% of the time, making them one of the world's most efficient predators. 🌿 Behold, the world’s deadliest cat:

This is *glorious*. It's like a visual cautionary tale for #EnterpriseUX... and I may have to use it as such :)

A discussion about investing in design systems. "Design systems become a “hair on fire” problem and get buy-in when people in the organization encounter a catastrophic or near-catastrophic event." daverupert.com/2024/01/are-...

Well played, blue plaque. Well played.

So... I'm here now. Not 100% sure about this place. It's more _slick_ than the fediverse, less _trashfire_ than the birdsite but still a little bit whiffy on the ethics front.

For a nominal fee, I will attend your enemy's design pitch and ask them, "OK, but really what were your GOALS here?"