Ege Tezcan

@designertom @tomjohndesign I love what you do and consuming your content Tommy! Thank you for all this work!!

There is so much unhelpful noise on social media from designers. Critics of every aspect from content creation to AI to role evolution. Hype and doom and snark and attacks. The loudest seem to have the root cause pinpointed and the opinions are aggressively tribal. Massive convictions built on personal experiences. It’s exhausting to absorb day after day, but I consume it all. Every comment, post, video, interview, survey. From LinkedIn to X to Reddit to YouTube. I run quarterly surveys. State of Prototyping has 1400 responses, report drops next week. I interview founders, design leads, and contributors from companies like Figma to Notion to Antrhopic to Cursor to JP Morgan to Intel to Microsoft to Dexcom. I host events, engage in good faith debates, and our lab runs experiments with all the new tools. I spend 48 hours embedded with design teams from Iverson to Perplexity to Vercel to Metalab. I’m truthseeking in a way few others are. There are two patterns in common amongst those who are thriving right now: 1. They and their teams embrace change 2. They love bringing their ideas to life That’s it. Anyone suggesting otherwise is highlighting the exception (of which there are many) and likely has a narrower scope. There are also clear patterns amongst those that aren’t coping well right now, whether they know it or not. I’m not ready to write that essay, yet. I’d rather focus on what appears to be working for others. My advice (and I rarely make these suggestions): if you’re unhappy with your circumstances and you have high conviction in your world view, consider re-evaluating the latter to improve the former. Worth noting: everyone is uncertain right now - the unemployed and the thriving. But the world is small and being kind is free. Don’t self-disqualify by forgetting those two points. I’ll continue to surface the patterns we’re seeing. There is a lot to be encouraged about.

@okozzie_ Love myself like Osman likes the web

i brought websites to the web

Today Claude refused my prompt because it recognized my procrastination pattern... I am gonna go out and touch some grass

@dannyjpwilliams Is this a rage bait? 🤣

Be honest... does anyone actually know what these do?

@mikelikesdesign @joshpuckett Thank you for open sourcing!

Hi all, I wanted to share my first open source Swift package, it’s a fork of DialKit by @joshpuckett shoutout to the amazing work by Josh and the other contributors, Josh reached out to me if I was interested in working on the iOS version, this is work in progress, and I’m a designer so would love feedback on ways to improve this github.com/mikelikesdesig…

If you want to light up a dimly lit street, you don’t hand every person a flashlight. You install street lamps.

If you read until the end, thank you so much for reading <3 you are my hero Full Jupyter notebook with more detailed analysis: github.com/wall-flower-et… All data belongs to Human Clarity Institute, thank you for sharing open source data. -Ege

6. Users know AI shapes their thinking — design for that awareness Participants reported AI's influence on decision-making at meaningful levels. People are aware that AI nudges how they reason. Make the AI's reasoning legible. Give users clear ways to override suggestions. Build products that help people articulate their ideas — work toward human augmentation, not replacement. Products that feel like a black box will erode trust faster than products that show their work, even imperfectly.

While the design Twitter gets flooded with "Designers are cooked" posts, I went and actually looked at the data. I analyzed 501 AI users across 6 countries to understand what people actually think about AI — trust, risk, companionship, decision-making, to understand how as a designer I can deliver what people really need. I used Human Clarity Institute’s open source research data and did an EDA on the data set using Python and Pandas, did the data viz @Figma, vibe-coded with @claudeai and deployed on @vercel. Here are the key findings for designers & builders: how-we-ai.vercel.app

@onuro I'm just working on this project, hopefully will launch it next week ✌️

I think we need a "Designers are Cooked" tracker for how we have "BTC is dead" tracker for 10 years now. I'll donate $ for the first person who builds that site haha

@rotellatech @kickingkeys Look fire Ryan good job

Finally re-did my portfolio site! Portfolios are never finished but I'm happy with it (for now): rotella.tech Tried to capture a retrofuturist aesthetic when people were excited about technology and its possibilities Thank you to @kickingkeys for helping the design so much!

I was at a startup event this week, and one of the topics was vibe-coded apps. One early-stage startup’s user pain point was that their app, built with Lovable, looked unprofessional. Users said, “This doesn’t look like a serious app.” Many vibe-coded apps and websites send the same message to users: You don’t care enough about them, so they don’t take you seriously.

I sometimes wonder if AI can get stressed, for real. When it tries to fix an issue and repeatedly fails, it starts destroying functional code too. It probably messes up while trying to apply a solution, but it reminds me of stress behavior. 👀