Tim Hazzard (he, him)

@dhh Thank you for sharing. This has renewed my drive to progress my career. It would be incredibly helpful to read follow-up pieces from your designers discussing their journeys to reach this level of code and design literacy in their careers.

This is perhaps the biggest secret to the productivity and viability of our two-person teams at 37signals. All our web designers work directly with the native materials of HTML, CSS, and usually even a fair bit of JavaScript and Ruby. Not in Figma. world.hey.com/dhh/design-for…

@nickjbasile Thanks Nick. The reason I was asking is that I was planning to spend an extended amount of time off work learning the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, JS, and React. However, your point that this would take away time I could spend honing my design skills has put a spanner in the works

@hazzardtime Hey Tim, I’m always happy to help a student continue their learning! So yes, I’d help them sort out how to learn to code if they were interested. That said, my aim for the course is to equip designers with enough technical literacy so they don’t *have* to learn to code.

My new @joindiveclub course "Thinking like a developer for designers" is officially open for enrollment 🥳 Come join us to level up your technical literacy to become a better communicator, collaborator, and designer without learning to code! maven.com/dive/thinking-…

@nickjbasile Hey Nick, after completing this course, do you offer any resources for students who want to deepen their understanding of the course material? For example, would you provide guidance on how to learn coding if a student discovers an affinity for it while taking the course?

I'd love to hear from you if you have any questions about the course! So, please feel free to ask away here or send me a DM.

@tylermcginnis Do you recommend this course to product designers who have a beginner-level understanding of HTML and CSS, and want to comprehend and contribute to the implementation of their designs in code?

🎉 After nearly a year of building in secret, I'm excited to finally announce what we've been working on. Introducing 🕹️ react.gg - The interactive way to master modern React. Here's why we're excited about it and why it took so long to create.

@_hraymond @itspatmorgan Thank you so much for your replies. I'd love to hear about your journey from BA to design technologist, Hugo. I'll send you a DM

@itspatmorgan @hazzardtime Happy to chat about this Tim if you want to speak over DM's or a call? I did this in a previous role, but switching from Business Analyst to Design Technologist.

Where should a design technologist / UX engineer sit within a software organization? Under engineering or under design?

@itspatmorgan Hi there! I have two questions for you: Did you begin your career as a developer or a designer? Also, I was wondering if you could share any advice on how to transition from being a designer to a design technologist? Thanks so much!

When I was a design technologist, I sat under design. It was great for prototyping, but problematic because I was detached from the structure and cadence of the eng org for shipping production code. It was also tough from a growth perspective because I wasn't fully building the skills to lead either a design team or an eng team and fewer companies have roles in this specialty, limiting my employment options. Eventually, I made the choice to pivot fully into design. These days, at software companies, I'd lean toward having this role sit within engineering on a dedicated UI platform team that happens to work very closely with design. I like this because it: - Benefits from being a part of the official eng process (sprint cadences, code reviews, build pipelines, etc...) - Has more power to affect change by keeping the ability to push code to prod like other engineers - Very valuable to have a design ally embedded within eng Engineering has had much more power than design at every company I've worked for, so ironically, the pragmatic way to get better and more consistently good UI design output has often been to build a strong position within engineering.

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So...I thought Photoshop was in trouble because of AI. But now, Adobe's new AI-enhanced Photoshop beta is out. And it's one of the most magical things I've ever seen. 13 game-changing examples that'll blow your mind:

@hobdaydesign @SaveToNotion #thread

Let’s say there’s a well-designed thing. You can be good at: 1) Having ideas for the thing before you start. 2) Exploring ideas for how to design it. 3) Designing it. 4) Thinking up reasons for why it’s good. 5) Knowing the theory behind why it’s good.

@hobdaydesign @saasshots @ortto @SaveToNotion #thread

As a rule I avoid negative critique on Twitter. I've decided to try it, and see how people react. I think I'll probably piggyback off @saasshots for this 😂 So first up is this screen from @ortto.

The RBA has tightened, hard. Retail sales (trend) still booming. Inflation still way too high. Stage 3 tax cuts still planned. If you can't see a problem, you're not looking. Our economy (and society) is very imbalanced, and getting worse.

@AlexAndBooks_ @SaveToNotion #thread

20 Amazing documentaries you should add to your watch list:

@hobdaydesign @SaveToNotion #thread

Not a judgement of Notion, but this has been a solved interaction design issue for ~decades. It’s a shame that companies have to want to solve these issues each time. Ideally any software maker wouldn’t have to think about it and would have these issues solved out of the box.

The reason I bring this up is because I want all software to be high quality. One way to do that is to make it so the base level of all software matches what we know is table stakes for quality. An example is performance: 99% of software should be instant.

Styles like flat design are less interesting to some designers, but also easier to get right, which means the chance of more people producing beautiful interfaces is higher. People should celebrate styles like this, even if they personally prefer to use something more complex.

@buninux @SaveToNotion #tweet

Playing with responsive widgets dashboard in Figma. #uidesign #buildinpublic

@FonsMans @linear @figma @SaveToNotion #thread

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50 Ways to Fuel a Conversation:

@AlexAndBooks_ @SaveToNotion #thread

I read 65 books in 2022. Here are my top 10 favorite ones:

@SystemSunday @SaveToNotion #thread

Twitter is free education. The best threads of 2022 (that will change your life):

@FonsMans 🎁