I spent an annoying amount of time trying to fix a CORS issue. Vibe coding is great and all but idk if it’s the most effective use of time to have designers pushing code regularly 🙄 #design

Hanging around LA - Chinatown and highland park #photography #losangeles

Design Hiring in 2026 Observations on the state of the design job market in Q1 2026

Seeing this with ny own eyes - employers want to see more ai, more visual polish and less process open.substack.com/pub/verified...

I’ve been endlessly daydreaming about moving to Tokyo, living in a tiny house and spontaneously booking random trips across Asia with my husband.

After 3 months of interviewing for sr level product design roles, I sense that It’s no longer enough to be a competent designer in this job market. #designer #productdesign

Tangentially related to #design: Amy Tan’s master class on fiction is really good. She talks a lot about digging into and embracing emotions. There are a lot of good exercises in there for designers, esp if you’re like me and worked in enterprise with a lot of constraints for a long time

Finally had some time to update the grain effect on my toy camera app so it looks more natural. Before grains looked too calculated and consistent (red teapot), now grains look more natural and random (bird) #toyphotography #photography

I made a free ungated app to convert videos to GIFs to streamline my portfolio process. You can use it too. #designer #productdesign #portfolios #GIFs

gifmaker.gooeyverse.dev

Happy new year! More fun and creative projects in 2026

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The only good thing about a mass layoff is you have a cohort of people going through the same thing. We can help each other. After having my portfolio reviewed by former design colleagues, I finally got my portfolio deck to land ✨#techlayoffs

Moody LA #photography #toycamera

Friendly reminder: you can do hard things 🙂 #motivation

From the Dodgers community on Reddit: Harada Method and Shohei Ohtani Explore this post and more from the Dodgers community

I’m gonna try this: www.reddit.com/r/Dodgers/s/...

I did not survive this season of tech #layoffs. Although I had already started interviewing, the news hit me kind of hard and has me feeling like I should take some time off.

Notes while interviewing: everyone is asking how you are using AI in your workflow now.
#designers

Hi Phil 👋

Lowriders & websites | Adam Stoddard The case for investing in things that “don‘t really matter”.

Avoid "functional absolutism" by spending time and energy on things that don't matter. Love this sentiment by @aaadaaam.com.

Bonus: A wonderful little `<random-pattern>` web component in the header.

aaadaaam.com/notes/lowrid...

I’m out here trying to thrive ✨ (and not to just survive).

“We met in the Turnstile mosh pit” - a love story I want to read

Hi hi 👋 just a friendly reminder to believe in yourself today 💫 #designers

Shoutout to the one person who noticed I was trying to get out of the pit. Of course it was another woman!

Adobe express has a free GIF maker! This has been really helpful as I'm working on my portfolio :) www.adobe.com/express/feat... #UXDesign #portfolios

@framer.com are you hiring?

Introducing Comet Plus Comet Plus is a new subscription that gives Perplexity users access to premium content from a group of trusted publishers and journalists.

Perplexity’s new Comet Plus subscription model allocates 80% to paying out publishers 👀👀 www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/int... #contentcreation

Found some helpful guidelines when designing for #AI in the SAP design system #UX #Design www.sap.com/design-syste...

How to Add an Appointment Booking Component to Your Framer Website (with Dashboard)

Add a customizable Appointment Booking Framer Component to your Framer website and manage all bookings in one easy dashboard.

Being a mid career #designer in big #tech is more meetings + documentation than actual designing

UX Strategies for Complex-Application Design UX in complex, specialized domains requires adapting familiar methods across the design lifecycle to address domain constraints and expert-user needs.

UX design for complex, specialized applications can be structured into three cyclical phases: Understand (investigating the problem space), Explore (generating and prototyping ideas), and Materialize (refining and implementing solutions).

www.nngroup.com/articles/str...

It’s all downhill from here 🙃🫠