going to Florida for the holidays was the right call, brain fully reset

Merry Christmas 🎄

bought wired headphones - in a world where everything needs charging, pairing, updates, and has ai features you didn’t ask for, something that just works is genuinely valuable now. finally get the trend with film cameras, vinyl records, and mechanical keyboards

Giving users too many customization options rarely works. Custom dashboard fonts, emoji variants, theme settings - takes forever to build, ruins experience, still can’t please everyone. Less choice often works better. (exceptions exist, but most products overdo it)

living in the AI age where algorithms know your health better than doctors but Spotify still recommends songs you’ve explicitly rejected five times

design isn’t about mastering tools, it’s about understanding how the world works

coffee at 8am is the only reason I’m functioning

they teach you to be obedient as a kid, then expect you to be creative and take initiative as an adult. turns out disobedient kids don’t launch startups or question systems - they just fill spreadsheets

Every year after Spotify Wrapped I think I should listen to new underground stuff to share, but every year it’s the same - Prodigy, Imagine Dragons, Linkin Park, Metallica plus tons of 70s music. Spotify thinks I’m 65😩

my collection so far, which one’s your favorite?

thankful for working from home, good coffee, and software I actually own

been subbed to almost every AI tool at some point, some stick some don’t, but Midjourney never gets cancelled and I still use it daily

client: "can we just change the font real quick?"
me with this machine: 🫠

Been playing with nano banana all day, this is wild. Cant tell whats human and whats ai anymore

my experiment: what would Instagram look like in Material Design
#materialdesign #uidesign #redesign #instagram #uxui #designconcept #mobileui

This might be my best Airbnb view yet.

This view of NYC. Gets me every time.

Hero for VPN service

weekend tennis🎾 good reminder that not everything needs to be perfect to be fun

the upgrade arrived
time for the mandatory “what apps should I install first” post nobody asked for

feed’s looks empty so I’m backfilling it with last month’s Twitter posts 😛

Always hated how Adobe would pull “missing font” when you’ve done everything right. and yeah, Affinity nailed it this.

switcher with liquid glass effect

It looks great here.