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How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back 

Product Design Is Lost / Design Systems International

https://designsystems.international/ideas/product-design-is-lost/

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3d character of a female snowboarder in a pink jacket.

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Golden sunset with a few clouds tinged with pink.

Motherfucking Website

https://dominicwilcox.com/gen2/?portfolio=worlds-first-art-exhibition-for-dogs

Version of 100 of Sketch is here! It’s a milestone release and we couldn’t have done it without your support. To say thanks, we’ve packed it full of features...

Sketch 100: More than just a number

https://youtu.be/HZeIhiNbSMg?si=BgVYrHSWFgM-y80-

A rough egg-shaped object… I did you think I’d make it that easy to guess what it is?!

Shocked to discover that a kiwi bird emoji has been ‘pending’ since 2018. 
Full list of submissions in the link 

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“With biz turning design into a process-heavy, measurable function, we’re not focusing on what makes designers relevant: our ability to propose new points of view, delighting users with meaningful experiences…”

https://designsystems.international/ideas/product-design-is-lost/

A nice collection of design bento's, if that's your thing https://bentogrids.com

Last day of the holidays yesterday so I kayaked to an island to go exploring. The plants blew me away.

Seriously question for designers looking for work: I understand the benefits of Remote/WFH, but if there was a full-time offer job in a far away place like New Zealand what would make it worth considering? And what would make the transition easier?

Celebrating’ 5 years at the company today. What better way than to redesign the company logo. Don’t tell the CD…

I’m just a boy, looking at Sketch, missing Runner immensely. 😔

WIP: This month I’ve been challenging myself with simple 3D character creation in. I’m not done yet but enjoying the journey.

Does anyone know how to close a job that I posted on read.cv? We've filled a position we posted…

My brother-in-law just showed me about a camera he made for his son. And it is 100% better than I imagined because it has interchangeable lenses!

I’ve a job available for a junior who wants a few days work next week. We’re moving a client’s spec sheets to Wordpress.
Task: Wordpress ‘data entry’ in an established template. Not exciting but is paid. 
Us: a design studio. 
Client: Laboratory equipment.
DM me if interested.

This week is podcasts & puzzles following a head injury (damn you science for proving screens impact brain recovery). Please share your fave podcasts. Anything interesting is welcome. So far I’ve been enjoying Wavelength’s True Crime stuff & Hidden Brain about attention span

Something serious something fun. Long weekend ahead with some new reading material.

Chuckled when I saw *her* on the Detail.co webpage today. She is the designers equivalent of the Wilhelm scream.

Today I presented a new logo to a client. There were tears of joy. No BS. This is why I do this for a living. 😍

PSA to turn on the off-by-default preference not to sell your Dropbox data. There’s a tiny cookie icon bottom left on your Dropbox.com page

Spent 15 minutes with an LLM and now have my own Python Script to distribute selected objects in C4D. This is crazy  🤯

Occasionally you need to reset the balance in client relationship. Today we un-published a client’s website today as they still hadn’t paid us for the work we had done. It doesn’t happen often but it’s one bit of leverage available to kick start action.

Work on progress for a brand mark. 
It’s 🎶 + &.  Does any of the embellishments help define the musical note or does it force the point too much?

This is where I spend my days. In designing the office I was keen for a home-away-from-home feel. This is where we hatch plans take over the world, and eat biscuits. The wall is a gallery of things we’re proud of.

Some points to think about as I design my next simple website…

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

AI use case id like to see: Imagine if on your phone when you set your units to metric and everything you read or hear is converted to metric on the fly. Recipe websites. Podcasts. Texts etc.

Should access to AI (eg LLMs) be a basic human right? If you need to do something more efficiently than ‘normal’ you need access which costs you $20p/m (will increase). Are we creating an even larger gap between the haves and have nots, leaving them behind even faster?

There’s a digital design studio I’ve been a fan of for years. They just laid off their entire team, insisting they be contractors. I understand you need to adapt to survive. But I can’t understand how they had the nerve to offer their ‘new’ contractors 1/3 of the market rate…

I have massive expectations for Sketch v100. Can the do the impossible? I hope so. 🤞

PSA: if you use InDesign with M3 and wonder WTF is up with the incredibly bad performance then have I got news for you: The next release is going to fix it. If you can't wait you can download the beta of 19.4 which is insanely fast. Like lighting. www.adobeprerelease.com/

Festival day in Wellington today. Should have brought my proper camera because there were some wonderful characters in the street.

Trying something new: drying flowers and herbs.

How come I'm only just hearing of this wonderful exhibition for dogs! More details on the artist page: https://dominicwilcox.com/gen2/?portfolio=worlds-first-art-exhibition-for-dogs

I wish Rive could handle HTML5 banner ads. It’s so much better than Google Web Designer for animation. Or are there other tools I should know about?It’s been a while since I did these.

Just know that if you send me a meeting request and it’s Microsoft Teams I have already judged you. SorryNotSorry.

Sometimes when I’m stuck, or looking for a new perspective I ask myself, “What would {insert name of design hero} do?” Well, today  one on my heroes asked me what I’d like to do. 😊

Does anyone remember seeing someone post about their animated mockups? (Search isn’t great in Posts, so asking the hive mind!)

A dumb idea I had while walking the dog this morning.

Anyone from Hong Kong / Malaysia here?
Designing business cards for a company with office there. Do they use Ph / Tel / P / T / something else? when prefixing a phone number?

First time being blocked. Surprised it’s on this platform really. What a rush. 😜

I realise I’m in a minority here, but love the new updates to Sketch that have dropped. Some of my favourite plugins are now baked in. And none of that dark pattern stuff from other side.....




https://youtu.be/HZeIhiNbSMg?si=BgVYrHSWFgM-y80-

I kept loosing track of the design courses I've bought so I created a list… now just need to finish some more of them.

Found this concept icon design I designed  for ImageOptim in a forgotten folder…

It’s that time of the year for egg posts, right? Extra points for anyone correctly guessing what this is…

The place I am at is looking for a contracted Creative Director / Brand Specialist to unify our assets and brand into one source of truth. Would work with me and other teams in collaboration but would own the brand + guidelines + tangibles.

Weekend dog walk. 
Taken with the 65x24 app.

Went a little further than usual on the weekend dog walk.

This weekend’s walk is going to be epic.

I never learned how to type properly. Felt I didn’t really need to. I’m a designer after all and don’t really type long form. But now we are on this weird limbo where I need to type to ChattyGPT like it’s a 80s choose-your-own-adventure game. I should’ve learnt to type faster.

Today I'm doing some content creation for one of my clients and thought I'd share my process: Interview customers / rewrite as create case study with clear structure/ use ChatGPT with custom prompts to get another perspective…

Woke to see reel from a Insta brand 'influencer' share how to create a brand deck. On his 'don't forget to show their competition' slide is an unused logo of mine from Dribble posted in 2016. Flattered, but also exposes the BS behind this racket.