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I feel seen

@kyleanthony I hate that you live on the wrong coast now, but you are such a good human, the city is lucky to have ya.

Everyone seems to love my hat in NYC. Maybe the city is coming around after all.

@Shpigford It’s called Balatro.

what are we calling the things you habitually do while waiting for LLMs to do their work?

Can’t wait for the “sometimes something is so obvious and so late” tweet from him in 18 months talking about how returning to the Intercom brand is the “right” move lmao

This is dumb, and exactly what people mean when they say tech CEOs are in a AI craze right now. Giving up on a ridiculously iconic and great brand, with matching logos, domain name, and social handle in exchange for this forgettable slop. There is 0 reason why “Intercom” couldn’t have shifted to be an AI-first company with the same name. Sad. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

@bran_don_gell Gay

A few weeks ago we launched a new designer role that required you to submit a small Figma design as your application. It was a little controversial. We got 100+ applications. Yesterday we relaunched the role with more of a standard application (no small Figma project). We’re gonna see which one nets out more/better apps and report back. modern-ton-234.notion.site/4b2ca4f355ac82…

@flyosity Must be nice. Must be nice.

Working on a native iOS app in UIKit has me so spoiled I completely forgot web developers have to perform a tiny exorcism every time they want an animation to behave correctly x.com/jakubkrehel/st…

@jrzscodes @sketch 1. Pay by the year, 2. Every time you do feel great that you’re supporting people who build software for the love of the game rather that whatever 🤮 that web-software-pretending-to-be-Mac-software other app was.

I love @sketch I really do, I'd love to come back after all these years, but as a software engineer with on-again-off-again design needs, I can't quite justify €13 per month on design software

Tim Cook be like “the ergonomics” h/t @MKBHD

I can teach people “design”. What I have never been able to coach is the situational awareness of every-day experiences that’re awful and could be batter. IME you either have this or you don’t. And having it is both a blessing and a massive curse sometimes.

My FIL was a very successful mortgage banker, and when he moved into management he used to tell me that he’d always find the best future salesmen selling *other* things like used cars, and then teach them the banking business. This is the UX designer version of that.

I feel much shame for the sheer amount of "order it and return it" try-ons I've done. And I am still pretty sure I've barely scratched the surface of trying them "all". @AndyManganelli

No amount of YouTube videos or recordings or text descriptions can possibly replicate the experience of a mechanical keyboard in person. My fantasy is for a "Keyboard Store" where the entire experience is physically trying every imaginable switch/size/material/sound combination.

There's a debate about AI clothing try on tools and whether they can faithfully replicate the experience of being in a store and actually trying a garment. Consensus seems to be no, that trying stuff on IRL is still the way to go. I feel the same about mechanical keyboards.

@dannymoerkerke Been working on an install flow this week, will share when done. Odd that you’re so focused on offline support tho, many native apps don’t work while offline. If it’s a cloud service / internet service, kinda need it. Plenty of use cases for PWAs that need internet tho.

It sucks that it's so difficult to install a PWA on iOS. It sucks that support for PWAs on iOS is limited. But we can't wait for Apple to improve this before we start building great web apps. When users perceive web apps as not as good as native apps, it's not always about the limitations that are imposed upon them. It's also about web apps not using the features that are available to them. Most web apps don't even work offline. How are they supposed to compete with native apps like that? Build a freaking great web app that uses any available feature that makes it better. Geolocation. Wake Lock. Offline support. Biometric authentication. Background Sync. Speech recognition. File system access. Push notifications. Persistent storage. Educate your users that your app can be installed. Add an install button, even if it's difficult on iOS. We can't afford to wait for Apple until we make web apps a success.

I started working from home precisely for this reason when my first kid hit kindergarten. Last one is going in to HS now and we’re still doing it. It’s been the best life situation ever. We’ll soon be empty nesters and we’ve got 2 decades+ behind us already of being best friends and hanging out all the time.

my problem is i want to be a stay at home mom but i dont want my husband to work either because i want him to stay home and keep me company so what now

The simple solution is for eBay to auction itself on its own site.

@thescottbarber And why are they stealing pendletons design

Hudson’s Bay once owned 5% of the Earth’s land surface and now it’s a kiosk in a Canadian Tire

I’m very aware that it’s probably just boomer nostalgia, but I so dearly miss the aqua era & design language. I remember seeing it for the first time at a CompUSA on an aisle endcap when OS X was released and I stood and stared for an hour.

@svlleyy One of the best ways is for them to score a junior position inside an org where the head of design is someone worth learning from. Reliable salary + comfortable learning environment.

i’ve always known i had lot of gaps in my design foundation and thinking, so i spent a chunk of time since late last year messaging a ton of designers i look up to in search of directions. made me wonder, how are new designers navigating? who or where are they learning from? what resources? lots of really good courses, but very few actual handholding.