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there are soooo many more product designers than brand designers

consume sugar filled cerelac as a baby. eat noodles with sodium and drink fanta and coke with dye through out your 20s. top it up with substandard "milk". eat beans that is presevered with chemicals. eat jollof rice made with sugar and chemical called "tomato paste".

Random thought: I feel African designers need to explore Latin America’s design history to understand how they cultivated their design culture and succeeded in unifying their government and people around it.

Call for help. My mum was hit with a stroke in may 2024. Since then our lives haven't remained the same. My family have spent all our savings yet her condition hasn't changed. She has severe BP challenge, she has diabetes. Which has gone on to take a toll on her kidneys.

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

Art Direction 2026//001 People are using AI to navigate their most human moments. Not to communicate better, but to avoid the exposure that real communication requires. This is Unprompted. Say it yourself.