Had a colleague say they listened to an old podcast with me today. First reaction — oh no. What did I say? 🫣
Milan, 2020. Interesting how little has changed — AI ethics, energy consumption, creativity — while being a completely different world.
robharrigan.design/articles/design-drives-podcast
First 5 years of design: I just wanna make fun beautiful things…
Next 15 years: …I wanna do more than just make stuff - I want to make impact….
Now: I just wanna make fun beautiful things…
#designRiffs #Thinking
Design and creativity is a powerful roar in a silent and despondent world.
#designRiffs #Making
Design is design - with a pencil or pixels or AI. Don't confuse your tools with your practice.
#designRiffs #Thinking
Writing and sharing ideas about beauty in spite of the world.
#designRiffs #Questioning
Product design has undesigned itself into ephemera.
Design forgot the old gods. My case for getting them back.
robharrigan.design/articles/sharpened-flint-fire-figma-components
#design
Let's see Paul Allen's token library…
#designRiffs #Thinking
Go forth, and fear no evil. Arise, arise, Poster of Vibes! Threads will be posted, Mastadons will be tooted, Bluesky will be sky tweeted. A fediverse posting day! A nerd day!
Also sorry for spam while testing.
#Celebrating #designRiffs
Weighing in on an icon or button color in a established design system is not helpful design feedback
#Questioning #designRiffs
Pushing the idea of craft in a overly visual company whiffs entirely on the true expression of product design, interaction.
#Thinking #designRiffs
I recently was promoted to the highest level IC designer at the day job. It feels weird and vain to celebrate yourself but not many folks can claim that at both IBM and JPM. Feeling chuffed.
#Celebrating #designRiffs
Testing making some wacky stuff with Claude and the new Framer CMS API to create fediverse `Riffs` that I can send via Claude on my mobile.
#Making #designRiffs
Testing the riff poster — first post from the API.
#Celebrating #designRiffs
Testing out whipping up a quick post from the Claude mobile app that will publish these "Fediverse" published micro blogs. I'm not upset - just testing vibes.
#Grousing #designRiffs
The grousing tag color is not working....apropos *grumble*
#Grousing #designRiffs
Black and white portrait photograph of Rob Harrigan, Experience Design Lead at JP Morgan Chase, against a textured background with film grain effects. He has short dark hair, is wearing what appears to be a collared shirt, and is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. The image includes AIGA awards branding in the top left corner and ‘2025 JUROR’ text in the top right corner.
Still not sure they emailed the right Rob Harrigan, but honored to serve alongside these incredible peers as we create the future of design.
Looking forward to celebrating the work that’s defining what craft, design, and creative culture become next.
#AIGAAwards
www.aiga.org/competitions...
Artemis 🌙 Painted with gouache and watercolor on Arches watercolor paper.
There are a few more pieces in this series I have been slowly chipping away at. Normally, I’ll wait until everything is sketched out before throwing down color…but I couldn’t wait to get this one finished up last month 🩵
Screenshot showing generated alt text for Stephanie Buscema artwork displayed above the Alt Text Generator plugin interface, demonstrating the plugin’s output describing a mystical archer with crescent moon crown and silver hair.
Two framed artworks by Stephanie Buscema: left shows a green-skinned mystical archer with crescent moon crown in a forest setting, right depicts a Halloween scene with jack-o’-lanterns, black cat, and smiling moon in decorative frame.
Two plugin panels side by side showing before and after states: left shows ready-to-analyze interface, right shows processing status for Artemis CU with Claude Vision.
Plugin analysis results showing completed alt text generation for Artemis CU and HouseLady CU artworks, with bulk action options and copy buttons for each description.
blows dust off social media after forever
Built my first Figma plugin with Claude. My partner creates atmospheric paintings but every alt-text tool described them as “boy with apple.”
6 chaotic hours later I had something that gets the vibe.
dusting off Medium too
medium.com/rob-harrigan...
My partner makes incredibly lovely things. She is close to releasing her second edition of the Silver Acorn Tarot. So much joy, love, and hand-painted beauty in this humble little package.
#art #painting
The little pumpkin!!
I haven’t posted here in a bit-life has been a bit hectic on this end! BUT, couldn’t wait to share a quick peek with everyone…The Silver Acorn Tarot is getting a 2nd Ed. printing this year! ✨(eta Fall)
If you aren’t throwing vegetables at Boz why are you even at Config
#config2025
Dan Brown is locked in
Trying not to write myself a black mirror episode this morning after receiving Suffolk County PD spoofing calls in the middle of the night last night.
🖤🖤🖤
Who at HP owed them a favor?!
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
Lovely.
Spider nugget is about to get some varnish 💖🕷️💖
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🖌️ Acryla gouache + Flashe on Baltic birch.
You’re gonna hear me jingling as I sprinkle these around everywhere I go.