I am mourning the fact that I no longer need Photoshop as much as I did at the start of my career. I will miss it.

This year I wanted to start writing, and just before it ends, I managed to publish one. If you read it, please be gentle with me. open.substack.com/pub/salihayd...

May God give all the time, creativity, and enthusiasm to the Helvetica haters. I’m curious to see what they will come up with.

iPad Pro is way too expensive as a drawing tablet and very useless for anything else.

A shirt I bought from Zara six years ago is still going strong, while a t-shirt from a so-called sustainable fashion brand lost its shape after just four or five washes. Real sustainability is the lifespan of an item.

so what's your favorite nano banana pro interface?

Minimalism is not about adding less, it’s about subtracting.

Adobe makes CS5 software free in 3... 2... 1...

Let’s be honest, subscription model is much more accessible than buying software in boxes.

Can Affinity clean up Canva’s bad image among professionals?

Why PDF files I saved from Figma are 10x larger?

My design career feels like a cobbled-together house, built from different disciplines and ideas. To me, different fields are just other ways of telling a story. But when it comes to showcasing my work in a portfolio, it all turns into a mess. Any tips?

You can’t design culture. You either have it or you don’t.

If your work is copied once, it’s theft. If it’s copied a billion times, it’s a trend.

First time designing a deck in Figma Slides, and I guess paragraph spacing is missing 👀

I rarely listen to new music since I switched to Apple Music

Usually, I type “bsky…” to open Bluesky in my browser, but on iOS, I have to type “Blue…” to open the app. This kind of inconsistency is something I’d never allow.

AI will empower in-house teams the most.

The design process is a constant search for what we should’ve known from the start.

What color picker/library app are you using on macOS?

We are hosting a live Figma Make workshop with @lalizlabeth.bsky.social on The Design Kids community. Stop by if you’re interested! 🎟️ RSVP: community.thedesignkids.org/c/events/tdk...

Apple Music should let Automix to order songs as it wish

I see trends like design under construction, a playground for collective creativity. Even if we don’t use them right away in the final work, we should still engage with trends to contribute to our shared heritage. So, when a trend become “cool” again, we can break it and get it perfected. #designsky

Liquid Glass really shines when holding and dragging, but let’s be honest, we rarely do that while using our iPhones. With toggles especially, something just feels off. #iOS26

Tell me like I am a 54 years old proud InDesign user

I only like my relatives in Framer

I was expecting Apple to remove that orange from Watch Ultra but they had different plans 👀

What if the back area were a Trackpad with Force Touch? You know, the back tap doesn’t really work.

Hard truth: If you can implement it with AI, it’s probably not a unique idea.

RIP Postscv handle

If the only thing we can say about a piece of work is that it was made with AI, it’s not a good work.

Remove Background in Photoshop should learn to keep shadows

Companies should practice soft-launching their rebrands.

Nano Banana is very good, but I’m not accepting defeat until it gives me an editable PSD file.

One month in with Apple Music: Loving the UI, playlist artworks, lyric translations, automix, and extensive library management. Hating the slow sync, lacking of universal playback control, constant local music suggestions despite never listening to them and having to back up my library manually.

I used to share my Postscv posts to instagram stories as screenshots. With Bluesky, I don’t want it. Did anyone build a screenshot builder with Postcv UI so I can share my thoughts on instagram using it?

It should be called "rage coding" because I'm not vibing.

Spotify put a f-cking AI generated song into my Discover Weekly and there’s no AI label or anything. WTH

Some people have expectations from life that are only possible if they were living for a second time.

Anyone has invite code for Digg?

In the end, it’s not what AI takes but what we give away.

Journal’s butterfly is so clever against the Bluesky’s

The design is changed. I feel it in the web. I feel it in the mobile. I smell it in the print. Much that once was is lost....for none now live who remember it.

Have you ever thought that maybe stories only matter to us, the designers who are always keen to learn the magic behind everything and no longer fall for marketing, visual effects or anything else?

Istanbul tip: take the ferry whenever possible.

TikTok feels like it was coded with black magic in Mount Doom. You have literally zero milliseconds between videos to look away. Forged to keep your eyes glued to the screen.

May God give us all the confidence of a large language model

Design is just moving between cluttering and decluttering. What goes around comes around, but prettier every time.

No great project starts with “I can do that with AI”

We need a feed for people with .posts.cv username only