Jon 🦊 Fox | Product Design Leader🧢

For the last 3+ years outside of my regular jobs, I’ve been producing a 9 episode comedy series about a design agency tasked with rebranding the Galactic Empire. Today we launch the first 3 episodes on YouTube. We made this for you. @designingempires?si=so4VLVGJ0TPoRIU2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@designingempi… @DesigninEmpires

Like many others, I have left X, twitter, whatever. I'm on Threads and Bluesky. Let's rebuild.

So very sorry to hear about Teri Garr’s passing. She was so talented and so funny. Her humor and lively spirit made the YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN set a pleasure to work on. Her “German” accent had us all in stitches! She will be greatly missed.

Remember, everyone, it’s just a game. Play on!

Who is going to pay people when they can't get jobs anymore?

New hire: “You hired me as Head of Design. You promised a seat at the table. You mentioned leading a large team. You said you believed in research. You assured WFH was fine. You praised a visionary CEO. You said it‘s like a startup within a large organization…” Hiring manager:

I think this is the best take yet on this issue 👇

"UX" today. how many meetings did this take?

@soulcoughing_ @TheBellwetherLA So good. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome back.

You are listening to Los Angeles. Sold out @TheBellwetherLA last night.

@Massawyrm @Mike_Doughty_ See you there!

Jess and I are dropping in on friends and pre-gaming before seeing @Mike_Doughty_ reunited with Soul Coughing tonight. So fucking excited.

#RIP dad 💔

Vote for a president that understands good UX.

Nobody wants to hear this, but creating and landing a new design system into existing software is at least an 18 month project, in my experience.

Beyoncé at the DNC is the new Daft Punk at the Trash Fence. #IYKYK

The greatest fear of the greedy oligarchs in this country is for the masses of Black people to connect with the masses of poor white people & form a voting block that could fundamentally reshift the economic architecture of the country. By working together, organizing together, and voting together, we can save the heart and soul of our democracy. Vote.org

If you showed me this image one month ago I would have collapsed in disbelief like a person dying of dehydration stumbling upon a desert oasis

Bingo. “The people propping this bubble up no longer experience human problems, and thus can no longer be trusted to solve them.”

The complaint specifically calls out “dark patterns” in the UX. This is why the profession is as vital as ever.

The Northern Lights from our window.

This ad is (unintentional) perfect metaphor for today's creative dark age: compress organic instruments, joyful/imperfect machines, tangible art, our entire physical reality into a soulless, postmodern, read-only device a multi-trillion $ corporation controls what you do with