I've joined some Figma files in my day but nothing shocks me more when a designer uses EEE as their canvas color.

animals

Magic move was my animated prototyping tool for a minute

Discussed malm’s pipeline with 10-12 ppl yesterday.

Overall mood is resignation, reluctance to waste time with ineffective strategy.

Immediacy or urgency determines prioritization of social causes. Climate change too far away in geography and time.

Great book tho

Gosh the persona UI hits so diff

Keynote an under utilized design tool

Divisive advertising is good advertising.

Christopher Alexander anticipated this would be a glorious era where we type in requirements and we get the finished plan.

I guess we’re not too far off

Do we have a term yet for ai generated design slop?

Go dubs!

Sell

Do you find mgmt prescribing process to be the norm / a blocker to software delivery in the organizations you work with?

Cuz I feel the absence is much more damaging and commonplace.

This one’s too meta for me 💨

My toxic ADHD trait is always raising the stakes.

Small gathering? Why not invite my whole social world instead?

Deadlines? Oh yeah I can get it done in a day.

Yes as if authority or will to power is end in itself

But what if reducing your power gets your other political or economic ends met?

Then perhaps the incentives of “balance of powers” is insufficient to mediate or prevent these failure modes

Meta Spoiler:

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second game caught criticism for weaker story than the first

Certain cheese and cured meats (imported?) were out of stock at my local Costco yesterday.

Coincidence or early signal of tariff effect

Would subscribe

The “compete with China in AI” directive ruins any chance of IP protection and data sovereignty.

It’s war on terror 2.0.

It’s now a “matter of national security” that we take all your content.

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

IG 3sixteen

Bitcoin maxis.

All the other things I’ve seen appear to be people weaponizing the plight of the American middle class to attempt to lower rates, print money (liquidity for risk assets) and pass tax cuts.

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FPO never works does it

Instead of federal government stimmies

xanax would be appreciated this time around

i want our digital spaces to be like a neighborhood kitchenette: get fed a snack, help out with the dishes, and speak to a matronly or patronly or they-tronly figure about what troubles ail me.

How do you estimate, plan and coordinate a design initiative on a large technically complex product, with vague and potentially misaligned requirements

in a remote international team
with impatient stakeholders who have no desire to engage in interim design processes?

Asking for a friend

Just heard the phrase

“Beef tallow MLM”

Now I know why oxtails have shot up in price.

Tariffs won’t fix trade deficit because of USD hegemony

But maybe it painfully forces consumers into a more local-centric economy? Or breathes some new life into DIY/repair movements?

(Coping with bad situation by imagining potentially beneficial second order effects)

Much of design is invisible labor.