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Every time youâre tempted to slack off or do or be a little less than you could, remember that you are a person of integrity who lives by the simple creed: do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.
Anyway, for the ones who still like to think about humans when designing, I share my thoughts on Substack. Hereâs a recent one on what products should remember:
pixeldahn.substack.com/p/cacâŚ
Omg yes! Everyone keeps talking about how theyâve stopped using certain tools and outsourced everything to AI agents, as if the goal is to remove yourself from the process entirely. But I feel the exact opposite
âdesigning much faster than the othersâ â this so daft and makes it clear they donât understand design at all. âDesigning fastâ (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate âproducing ui by piecing together stuffâ and âdesignâ then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow.
What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, itâs what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together.
So many of todayâs âdesignâ AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. Iâd love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isnât concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.
Design has so much influence over different aspects of a product experience. Sometimes, the work itself is how you develop the judgement to make something good
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Worked on the Litmas 2.0 website with @WeTalkSound. Moodboarded, designed, and built it in pixel art, with a bit of dithering.
A few surprises unlock on 1 December. đ
If you were at LITMAS last year, you already know. đ
This year, weâre going bigger. With CafĂŠ Riddim and House of Assembly joining the mix, LITMAS 2.0 is bringing even more to the table.
Sounds of Sunset + House of Assembly on Dec. 23, then Insert Nights on Dec. 24.
Get tix here: litmasfest.com
Obsessive public sharing syndrome is what is wrong with social media today. Even grief, intimacy and vulnerability has become opportunities for engagement these days
The anticipation of an audience has begun to influence how people experience their own lives. No ability to distinguish between what should be kept personal versus what is meant for the public anymore
Thereâs something black mirror-ish about this
JUST IN: Palmer Luckey's genetically modified military dog startup, Warhound, comes out of stealth, aiming to create enhanced canines for the U.S. military.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is NOT Palmer's company at all, his company Anduril is only supplying the tech for the dogs, and this is a wholly owed Collosal entiity
x.com/palmerluckey/sâŚ
Random: @ogbeniseyiâs mind is a whole universe. One of my favorite things about collaborating with him is that he thinks about constraints and consequences of care in design. Itâs actually so rare to find a designer with reputation (and autonomy) reduce surface areas to go deeper
June 2021, was telling a friend about being rejected at Facebook. 5 months later, I got another shot
Donât give up!
I think AI has become quite good at making decks look good, but visual composition is only one part of presentation design. The craft is in information design, storytelling, and art direction
It's also knowing how to structure an argument, knowing what to emphasize, what to leave out, and how to make information meaningful. AI can assist with these decisions, but it doesn't consistently demonstrate the judgment required to make something really tasteful