Duncan

this is not a flex

And killed notifications from Spotify as well. Cannot believe how there is practically no company by now that has not abused push notifications for product marketing. I’ve now been trained to disallow notifications from any and all apps - save for my main banking+messaging one

@marijanapav @Draplin Legendary all round

never forget this banger label design by @Draplin

All the world’s luxuries are becoming repackaged mediocrity, and we can’t continue to accept it 👇

if you refer to yourself as a creative I just know your art is terrible

@vanschneider I call it the Figma floordrobe

using emojis in your UIs is probably one of the quickest ways to make it feel cheap

All my primary buttons will look like this now 🇻🇦Ceiling of the Vatican City Museum

@kaseyklimes This basically sums up my (optimistic) hope and prediction that the humanities will come back in fashion. Teaching to question everything and ask just one more question before diving into something will become even more valuable. It's just a very unsexy sell

i’ve taught design students for over a decade, but last night was the first time I’ve spent time in the classroom since the wide adoption of claude code, etc. the distance between idea and reality has completely collapsed, which puts the new bottleneck in stark relief: clarity of thought. it used to be that weak thinking could be obscured by impressive execution, while strong thinking could get lost in poor execution. now, the execution is so universally impressive that it recedes into the background to reveal the thinking: what problem are you solving? for who? how do you know it’s a real problem? how do you know that your solution addresses it—not just in theory but in the real world? can you explain your idea clearly? this is *incredibly* hard, but it’s exciting that students can now focus on it without worrying about pixels and syntax. I think it’s a huge opportunity for design education to meet the moment, should it so choose.

You just know those switches & dials will have the most beautiful weight and clunk to them in sync with the UI

Fun with blend modes & glass trying not to kill @figma

Something strange happened on conservative Twitter on Thursday. A dozen right-wing influencers suddenly became passionate about semiconductor export policy, posting nearly identical (and often false) attacks over a 27-hour period on a bill most people have never heard of. 🧵

"let me ask chat gpt" me:

Astounding. I think because investment literacy is so low in the UK and saving-via-homebuying is so embedded, people don't realize how much money has been effectively lost here - how many shorter, less comfortable retirements it means. Should be a scandal.

Theres a very long list of US products that cannot be sold in the EU thanks to EU regulations. Since the favorite pastime of the Trump regime and every US oligarch is now to demonize EU regulations, I thought it would be very much worth going through some of those products.🧵

@mattstasoff similar x.com/duncanpbell/st…

platform merch, back?

Labubu relevance didn’t even make it to Christmas. Hershey just released a Dubai Chocolate product in a 2 months (light speed for a giant org) and it still didn’t feel fast enough. Product trend cycles (or psyops tbh) spinning faster than ever.