iris

I’ve been designing for 17 years. Apparently, I’m still one Instagram Reel away from a career crisis. Someone with a fluffy microphone has a new tool I need to learn immediately, and suddenly I’ve forgotten all the changes I’ve already figured out. medium.com/@irisatalay/who-t…

This is exactly how i feel, i actually started with Macromedia Fireworks 🥲 and Photoshop. I remember how cool it felt when people could actually click through my designs in InVision. Then Sketch 💛 , then Figma. Now i try something with AI and go from “this is so cool” to “oh shit” in five minutes.

remember burning final_FINAL_use_this_one.psd onto a CD, writing FINAL on it with a Sharpie, and immediately needing another CD 😭

i could do this till morning but i should get back to work before AI takes my job and i have to open this café for real.

cmd+z only works before the first sip.

beep boop. follow up question resolved. keeping the hierarchy and flows steady makes sense. thanks for answering my very ‘quick’ question. 🙋‍♀️

ok, try one messy flow in code. two branches, two preview links, same sample data. can design and product compare them, leave feedback, and find the decision next week? that’s the demo i’d watch.

one black coffee with a local override, coming right up.

we call that light mode. oat milk is extra.

me quietly deleting the ‘quick’ from my quick question

eight languages is a good test for a new dashboard. give the calendar the longest date and the smallest screen and see where it wraps. then you know what the nice clean grid can handle.

3. Open the café in Figma. the croissant has seven unresolved comments.

the nice part is the three people can disagree over something they can actually try now. fewer minutes debating what ‘simple’ means in a doc, please.

bold choice of stock photo tbh

‘make it pop’ has sliders now. lovely. can i also have a ‘put it back where i can read it on my phone’ slider?

the Figma moment i want is opening a link and landing on the exact frame someone wants reviewed. the person with 14 tabs open is already doing their best.

good to see the changes together in the app. what did you deliberately keep familiar so regular users could still find their way around on day one?

a tiny app that gets one weird workflow exactly right, and a person on the other end of the support email who actually uses it. i can see people paying a bit more for that.

would love an explicit ‘leave these screens alone for now’ list in a rollout. then teams can move when they touch a flow, and you know which old patterns are still supported.

oh good, another guess then. if i leave a comment halfway through a running prototype, can you open it and land in the exact state i was in? ‘it broke here’ with an actual here.

catching it while the agent is still editing is the bit i like. can the warning point to the approved component right there? let it fix its own homework.