Are starter packs no longer a thing now that everyone has sort of started

Just throwing this idea out there, because someone somewhere once said “we can just make a new currency out of some code” so it must be possible. What about Mini Cheddars as a new form of currency? They are kind of coin shaped too.

Everyone’s obsessed with how fast they can build things, not why they’re building or what problem it solves. Stemming from one of my most useful design tools being just taking a walk around the block; I wrote some design principles on knowing when to stop designing principles.design/articles/pri...

I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶 Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything. Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: elenajs.com

Everyone’s obsessed with how fast they can build things, not why they’re building or what problem it solves. Stemming from one of my most useful design tools being just taking a walk around the block; I wrote some design principles on knowing when to stop designing principles.design/articles/pri...

Humility is a core part of being a good designer. Without humility you won’t be able to let a robot do your design job on your behalf.

Most design principles fail. Not because teams don’t have them, but because they’re written like slogans instead of decision tools. principles.design/articles/why...

Having a bit of weather

Everyone in the uk screaming font-family: maths;

It was the 90’s…

Many of my long time followers over the past five or six decades will know that I often post that my dishwasher has a “Quick 45” setting which runs at 45°C but has a 44-minute cycle.

Save “wife-thought-the-delivery-guy-was-me-and-said-well-helloooooooo-through-the-ring-doorbell-in-a-silly-voice-and-confused-him-and-embarrassed-herself.avi”

I’m going to invent a dustbin that accepts hot ashes

First bluebottle of the year

What’s worse than noticing a typo in a skeet? Deleting a perfectly okay skeet that you imagined had a typo in it.

The boy copied down a credit card number of mine & some personal data he found as a clue on a treasure map he was making. I explained how not to copy personal data etc. He then said “It’s okay I can just get your chainsaw from the barn and cut up the map”… which has led to a new parenting problem…

I’ve just seen claims of an AI designer role in London for £300k per year. That’s still not enough money to have to go into the office 5 days per week.

I was about to share an article with @benbrignell.com, written by @benbrignell.com. Ludicrous. principles.design/articles/why...

You’re not supposed to put cotton buds in your ears

Do you use design principles in your design system? I’m expanding the collection on principles.design and have just added a new Design Systems filter: principles.design/examples If your team has published principles, share a link, and I’ll include them in the library

Scooby Doo’s favourite pantomime.

When you reach a certain age, and someone asks for your design portfolio, you end up sending them a spreadsheet.

It’s hard to believe that they’re the same size

Do you use design principles in your design system? I’m expanding the collection on principles.design and have just added a new Design Systems filter: principles.design/examples If your team has published principles, share a link, and I’ll include them in the library

Yet AI still can’t help me find where I left my glasses

7yo: Oh I thought a warehouse was like an abandoned house, all creepy. Like werewolf. But a house.

I will say it: I don't *love* that cafes can now be home to multiple people having work calls and Zooms while wearing noise cancelling headphones

A reminder that anyone investigating mysterious urban phenomenon should check the proximity of the nearest art school

Waiting over three hours for a take away delivery. About to eat a pair of flip flops.

I have cooked too many chips. Does anyone want some?

I remember when my contact page was all fields

I’ve been reorganising a few things and have added a new filter for examples of principles in design systems. principles.design/examples

Some sad personal news, our barbecue cover has just blown away in the wind

Clarence Coles Phillips

I accidentally spilt anti-aging cream on my brother's newborn baby and it disappeared.

My initials are ⌥⌘B ⌥⌘B

Don’t really understand this whole vibe coding “one person can replace a whole product team” thing. That one person being someone who now has all the responsibility, is now involved in planning, development, launch and maintenance and can never go on holiday in case something goes wrong.

I wrote a short piece on the paradox of honesty in artificial intelligence. medium.com/@benbrignell...

The kids call tortellini “belly button pasta”

I wrote a short piece on the paradox of honesty in artificial intelligence. medium.com/@benbrignell...

I’m in the queue at the post office and a guy has placed his car keys and phone on a shelf to free up his arms to hold a small envelope with both hands - he is aware they’re still on the shelf but is moving closer and closer to the counter as the queue reduces. Keys/phone are 4 metres away now…

Looking back through some old emails I just realised I replied to a prospective client “No worries thanos!”

Most design principles fail. Not because teams don’t have them, but because they’re written like slogans instead of decision tools. principles.design/articles/why...

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The ’possum is running wild: Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome. Same open source core, a much bigger future. Watch our video and support us on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

Microsoft joins Mozilla in backing down on its AI push, after being yelled at for 2 years straight So much money wasted on ignoring something they already knew

If you want to get unusually high blood pressure try Figma Make

You always think it'll happen to somebody else but I just realised I forgot to put the bins out

I once saw Trevor McDonald on the bus. He wasn’t on the bus, I was.

It’s almost that time of year where you convince yourself that working on your laptop outside in the sun is viable