reposting: anyone writing about this? i am noticing a shift toward user hostility and i think it is going to get worse

i maintain there will always be value in lofi, it's important upstream work to challenge your understanding and mastery of the problem in a very low stakes and fast way. it also means signficantly less waste when you do get to hifi, and i think we see the process in the output

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014

gotta say i'm a bit surprised this is the workflow example they chose (and they're getting cooked in the comments) www.youtube.com/watch?v=riFF...

my people. this album is it. if you like jazz with *soul* and lots of vibe, you will love this

workshopping this 2x2 for taste/craft/style/signature...?

back when i was interviewing, i recorded myself to practice. now, i'm uploading that take as a resource for others on what a "principal product designer"-level presentation looks like: jedmund.com/universe/por... this is exactly what i'd show in an interview, so at 25 mins it is a little long.

ongoing saga of tree (summer 25 vs feb 26)

i have unearthed my 3.5 star pitchfork review from long ago, and guess what, still fledgling

continuing to dispel myths about taste, diving into creative practices to develop taste while acknowledging the gatekeeping and exceptionalism associated with the "natural talent" myth

do you enjoy: disco samples disco samples big ole bass synths if so: my new album is out for bandcamp friday! it's on youtube and soundcloud. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jKB...

the number one response to this so far has been, generally, that taste is innate. do you believe taste is innate? why or why not?

i spent $2600 in tokies to go to gas town

posting my Ls (diva down big here) i, uhh, :w~ which created a ~ file, then almost instinctively deleted it with rm -rf ~ i caught it right after typing but yeah goodbye to some of my configs

thanks for sharing the ira glass post, i hadn’t seen it! i think what ira describes is compatible with the definition: if someone has strong taste and low mastery of craft, they will see the deficiency in their work. curious: whose taste gets recognized as “strong” when tied to personality?

so, there's a lot of writing about the properties and principles of good design, does anyone know of any works talking more about the conditions, systems, culture, etc that produce good design?

one of my fav writers talking to one of my fav producer/dj duos - their chicago acid mix and live sets really shaped my upcoming record, and they have managed to evolve really nicely over the years

but, i'm not sure i can,

"i've left SF for gas town. i'm directly wired into the mayor. together we are solving wicked problems. my multiagent claudeswarm just made me a todo app."

you ever just serve 30mb photo jpegs because you transformed them at build time to smaller files then got rid of the transform step then you sent 500mb down the wire for several days

wrote about the fuzzy definition of taste and craft, how they exist with quality, and why it matters for design nicbertino.com/blog/taste-c...

my new UI design · pet peeve · is dot separators · in serial info displays

now with monetizing user generated content without consent or payment i left the platform quite early after hearing horror stories from designers - mostly about mentor quality, vetting, and safety - all of which were basically ignored. then the vc money started coming in

i need this! real bad!

connecting people facing hunger with food should be easier, so i've created a small app to show what's available near and now. www.pantry.help/en

cherry picking apple’s aesthetic without the underlying product marketing, art direction, and technical aspects of their approach is as evident here as it is in the 1 million other agencies that have tried to copy them

recentering today with lady t

question for creative people: when you want real crit on your work (not just "looks great!"), where do you go? i'm prototyping something around small, time-boxed groups where everyone commits to giving structured feedback. curious if this is a problem worth solving or if existing options work fine.

absolutely not

there are so, so many issues with this article: - the LLM definitely gave inaccurate combinations, lauded at first for the outputs and written off later - a bold claim that tokens in figma = completely accessible design system - is generating colors and running it for contrast not an afterthought?

for designers, i think we can spell this out more clearly: discovery is generally lower fidelity, and only what you need to better understand your team's thesis or if you know the problem as well as you think you do. it's also where research can really, really help.

is anyone writing about the customer side of vibe-coded products? or are we mostly still talking about TTM being cheaper?

simply love old timey mono by @dsembry.bsky.social and i've set my personal site with it - something about these typewriter revival fonts (and their numericals, really) just sing for me

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welp

i have to say, this doesn't even sound like a relationship, let alone love - it just sounds like a business holding people hostage.

sometimes your camera just kinda flips out and decides to make some cool stuff

replace every car touchscreen with CLICKY RADIO BUTTONS and KNURLED KNOBS

not to like, retvrn, but sometimes single-purpose controls are the most affordable regardless of context. plus i wanna mess with these overhead switches bad

one of the coolest logotypes of all time. every letter is treat

I forget who said it but someone (maybe on here?) pointed out that "simple" needs to be defined with additional context to mean anything

"[...] simplify—while simultaneously avoiding simplicity for simplicity’s sake, because some problems and workflows are inherently complex." i love this from ditto's design principles - mostly geared towards writing, but apt for so many things dittov3.notion.site/Ditto-s-Prod...

my most popular blogpost ever was an explainer of replit and why it won't replace figma - a response to engagement bait, and hopefully the start of an ongoing series about design technology

i've been in many a triage, i've starship troopered some pretty big bugs, dealt with security breaches, but nothing quite compares to the stress of the final hour of bidding on the auction platform you made

fun milestone: my company turned one recently. first years are hard. i'm getting better at picking the right battles. i've learned much by simply listening to others. i am trusting my design instincts more than i ever have. year 2 awaits!

building a NAS last year was one of the best decisions i've ever made in my entire life. highly recommend

it is easy to look at this and imagine the editing and curation breakdown happening, and assume that the author/editor/whoever would "edit" this to good if they knew it was bad. sure. throw it back to the LLM it came from with edits and it's "better."

just lost half of my day investigating a broken build because of one overly eager firewall rule

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happy to report that the new rosalía rips, happy rosalía day to those who celebrate