Dave Bloom

An old article from @37signals I always go back to every now and then: signalvnoise.com/posts/1061-why… Designers out there - does the logic hold up to justify skipping Figma? #productDesign #figma

@Mappletons Super cool, Maggie! I used something similar to get the tilt of these record sleeves to be accurate (wip):

Inexplicably down a rabbit hole getting agents to craft me some beautiful poppies, but this is where "hey claude attach these variables to sliders" works a charm

@jasondoesstuff They exist, but the experts are looking for a salary, prolly.

Does this type of freelancer exist? Or am I asking too much? In my dream of dreams, I want to find someone who loves using different products and can create content about all of them. I have 3 products, they are all a bit different. 1. A digital product creation/selling platform (Teachery) 2. A vertical video editing app (SceneRoll) 3. A content creation tool (Solo Content Studio) Basically, the person I want to higher is 25-year old me. Hungry, curious, experimental, and very native to creating content and trends. I envision this person: - Learning the products inside and out - Using all the features and nuances - Enjoying creating content and being on camera - I'd even love to see them share the journey of being introduced to these products and how they are learning the ins and outs of them But how do you find someone like this? Just hiring a "content creator" doesn't seem to be enough. Or is it? Am I overthinking this?

Got a notification our robot vacuum got stuck.

Claude keeps pushing this 'autonomous utopia' where thousands of agents are building your software for you in a closed loop. But I spend most of my day correcting Claude and getting it back on the right track as I test. Iterating is essential to product design. If you don't have an airtight plan up front, you might end up spending more time mopping up than you would actually building the thing.

@learnwithmattc I feel like you might dig an 'online book' thing I'm working on, as an academic. I'd be interested in what reading settings you'd opt into. Chat?

This is probably my favorite under-appreciated Gutenberg feature: Outline view I think it's the Academic in me that appreciates this so much. But honestly, if you write content for humans to read, then practice opening up Outline view. If you look at this and you can't understand the entire purpose and point of the article then your flow is off. And yes, tomorrow you'll get to "enjoy" over 2700+ words about robots.txt. Or, you just saw my outline and you already get it. Either way, read it all if you dare!

@colmtuite @paper Nice. Can we use this? Are the values in a scale somewhere public?

Diagrams designed in @paper because it's the only good canvas design tool in the world.

Uniform color scales is a fallacy. Uniform chroma/lightness is not remotely close to possible, nor is it even desirable. Explanation in thread 🧵

I’ve been using the @tailwindcss typography system for years (and using it to dogfood my own stuff) but I never actually read this code snippet. @adamwathan is the king of dummy copy.

@fabrohl Looking gooood

Setting out to build the best (and first!) AI-native learning and note taking experience. Currently using AI to study means constantly switching between your content and some AI chat. We need to re-think this from scratch. Example UX - just mark the things you don't understand

@Karl_Boltzmann I just came across this looking for that ethereal sample, thanks for making this! Cheers from Toronto.

New deconstruction video out! youtu.be/ECb4yYcFllQ DJ Shadow's 2002 classic, 'Blood On The Motorway'. Beautiful use of samples including the vocals which came from an obscure 1983 a cappella track . Very cool imo.

@jameswlepage What do you recommend instead? Could you give it a design system and some inspiration?

Shocking how bad GPT 5.X is at interface design and general aesthetics. Strategic mistake with this family.

@mattmedeiros AI stuff is great for ideation when you’re stuck. But I wouldn’t ship it directly.

Every time I use Claude Design I hate it.

So tired of the same old '____ is dead' clickbait. Nothing dies. Vinyl and DVDs still sell. Lots of people are still using horses to get around. So, just because you have a hard-on for what AI might disrupt, a whole generation of people with billions of dollars in their bank accounts aren’t going to use your AI powered chat box and want a website to show them a phone number of a human they can talk to.

@chriswagoner This was a joke. I'll try harder next time.

@davebloomdev What do you mean by state of the art editor? Where does WS miss it?

New plugin idea: Anti-gravity forms. Design beautiful, accessible, responsive forms with a state-of-the-art editor, modern templates, and AI integrations galore. Form submissions go to a random email address. $499 Lifetime. #WordPress

You’d think that Claude would be smart enough by now to, at the very least, remove the em dashes from the copy it drafts for you. I still like writing my own stuff at the end of the day, but read the room bruh

@internetvin We call that dish the 'swordfight'

Alright. Getting back in shape.

@adamwathan what happened to those 'silk' background textures you were working on a few months back right before uish dropped? They looked dope

So many annoying dark patterns on Midjourney regarding their new personalization feature. 1. Top banner you can't close 2. Can't use the product until you personalize with no clear path to turn it off. Turned on(?) by default. 3. Unchecking the setting and trying to opt out doesn't work 4. Help docs make no mention of not using it. Absolutely embarrassing UX design for paying customers who want it to generate (gasp) different things for different projects. @midjourney