This is a good thread. I'll also add that more men need to mind their business instead of dictate what women do, including but not limited to how women choose to dress themselves

You know what food I hate? Your personal favourite food. Inedible garbage.

Watching this and wow it's painful hearing these men speak

While I appreciate the sentiment around wanting to make designs "simple," I tend to find its a catch all term to describe many different things. Product makers tend to use this word and mean like 20 different things, like, reduced cognitive load, minimal interfaces, increased funnels for leads

I think anytime a design manager puts pressure to present work, it often comes off as for purely bureaucratic reasons more than anything else If it's framed as "this will help you now and for the future whenever you talk about this project".. that's a lot more incentivizing and motivating imo

I didn't particularly enjoy working in a top-down environment that required a more intense level of stakeholder management than what I'm normally used to, but.. having polished presentations makes writing case studies about lot easier, that's for sure

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

It's awkward to end a case study like "and then I didn't get to finish this project" but when that's the state of the industry... 🤷🏻‍♀️ I swear I'm a good designer, I don't make these decisions, please give me money 🙏🏻

Renewed my Peacock annual subscription and got the "are you sure you want to cancel.." offer that is much cheaper than the offered price In my mind this is the "Adobe method" of pricing

mother off resumes January 11

Web Design trends in 1995 – Apple – Adobe – Pizza Hut – Netscape #WebDesignHistory

Good morning! ☕ 🎄 🌈 🎭

Getting emails from recruiter places about design jobs that are offering $18-$20 an hour. People, I got $16 an hour at my very first production design gig more than 25 years ago. Adjusting for inflation that's equivalent to getting kicked in the teeth.

Trying to decide on a career for when the economy crashes and we return to the ancient times. I'm leaning toward soothsayer but I'm also open to banditry

I miss Nailed It!, especially the holiday episodes..

Decided to scrap this idea because I don't think I can make a coherent story of it.. also realized I'm missing some notes that maybe would've helped, oop

Fighting burnout by smaller boosts of productivity here and there But.. I didn't sleep particularly well so will have to see how far that takes me today lol

tech companies continually learning people don't want these things

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

I really don't like the "just disable it" argument for AI features.. Just seems to ignore the broader/ethical reasons people have issues with AI It's just a less hostile version of the "it's here and it's never going to go away, so get used to it" argument

Matt Levine's newsletter ftw www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

I think I had one of these as part of a present.. but my Coach ipod case is what I used lol

ALERT: Boston is lit tonight for the holiday season. 💛 📸: @mass_drone_demic

Random take: Design mocks in dark mode just look nicer I'm used to defaulting to light mode for everything but the dark side calls to me 🌒

The irony of using a company's external design system website as a resource as someone who no longer works there and finding all the things that could be improved

Doing more portfolio work and split between wondering "is this completely boring and uninteresting" and "is this enough to get a decent job" I guess those are two slightly different goals.....

i see Gmail Privacy is trending, so in addition to whatever settings changes you wish to make, allow your IT Auntie to gently remind you that email privacy is a non sequitur. Email has the privacy of a memo printed out and stapled to a telephone pole.

Look it's simple, we want less stress and we want to be able to afford things again and we want to feel like the rewards we were once promised for a lifetime of hard work still exist and also we want Wishbone back and those are the things we want

I'm still profoundly irritated with Google's Gmail shenanigans. One of the first principles of good UI/UX design is that you want your interface to be so unobtrusive that users don't have to think about it. If you bury functionality >3 clicks deep, people won't use it.

Autumn Leaves Path (2021) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

What if color harmonies were a continuum? Not fixed rules, and you could glide through them just by interpolating?

it’s so funny that every commercial for every tech product tries to show the practical uses of AI and it’s just somebody saying to their phone or their sunglasses or their hat or whatever “hey AI, is it gonna rain today” and then a robot voice saying “nope, there’s no rain forecast until tuesday”

[watching a Black Mirror episode where a guy posts too much] Wow technology gone awry. A looking glass take on modernity that hits uncomfortably close to home.

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This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now. They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.

waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

Brittany Snow is everywhere right now and I support it

These product images of what appears to be a person covered in a large expensive blanket speak to me Not enough to buy a almost $700 blanket but to become a blanket ghost

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

istg every tech guy wants their Steve Jobs iPhone announcement moment and the best any of them can do is "what if we tape the phone to your fridge?" "What if we tape it to your car?" "What if we tape it to a front door??"

I really think this kind of thing is a bad idea, because who wants to start a relationship *with a doctor’s office* by realizing the first thing that happened in that relationship is that they tried to trick you?

I have one case study that is less of a typical case study and more of a short story of trying to get designing code to work together.. hoping someone other than me finds it interesting lol

Almost accidentally tipped $115 on a grocery delivery which would've been ironic because I spent 20 minutes debating on what to order when everything is so expensive

there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18 reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011 all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful

I am forever the person who leaves a virtual meeting when someone is in the middle of saying their goodbye

i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly

download our app to buy coffee! get your coffee by simply entering your email! coffee is just one password containing a number, letter, and special character away! hey. fuck you

user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor