Shoegazing · Playlist · 177 songs · 2 likes

Shoegazing

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2pEgYwYsqdK8XcdzHEuxZv?si=YpVnj0ooT46e0I58TR0f2Q&pi=u-K0lSEttFQqOG

Adobe and Figma have until December 19th to fight their case.

UK watchdog slams the brakes on Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23979260/adobe-figma-bid-uk-watchdog-cma-provisional-findings-merger

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/jack-dorsey-block-layoff-easier-18509249.php

https://twitter.com/i/status/1725201336613159060

Midnight Polaroids  · Playlist · 139 songs · 3 likes

Midnight Polaroids 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5upd0RJ92soaxgJGujYWvD?si=4AKyXvW4SXSbmmTa59nhAQ&pi=u-Z0IW_AsaQ4mU

https://jonathanbrazeau.com/areyouthehero

I made a playlist of 13 hours of shoegaze. It’s a pretty international list as well. 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2pEgYwYsqdK8XcdzHEuxZv?si=YpVnj0ooT46e0I58TR0f2Q&pi=u-K0lSEttFQqOG

😮 wow. Mercari is absolutely garbage to sell on and to buy from. They changed the TOS and it’s gotta be the worst selling platform now. This should have been a very difficult feat since eBay is a cesspool but somehow the geniuses running the show at Mercari did it 🏆😑

What should I learn to keep myself up to date as a designer?

Does it make anyone else feel good when a position that you interviewed several stages for 6 months ago is still hiring? 🙄😎😈

Anyone else want to scroll that top nav bar on here?

I'm almost 100% sure I just got a rejection email from a job I never applied. 😂 These companies are getting serious.

making some fun gifs with stable diffusion

❔Question for my Posties.

What are your thoughts on an early stage startup hiring a designer consultant or agency to help build the initial product before they hire their first designer? This is more than just creating the branding around the website etc...

What's a better experience?
You have opened a modal to create x.
You need to select some parameter to start.
do you keep the 'create' button disabled until parameter is chosen? or let the user choose create then give an error inline?

Did a little animation for my personal logo...had to get that pop sound effect...just right.

Are concerts now for the rich? Ticket prices and dynamic pricing is getting pretty insane.

Ok I’ll post a cat 🐈 pic. This is Shiro

What is the real value of creativity? Do you think tools like Sora by OpenAI will “democratize” creativity? Or will they oversaturate our culture with a junk food diet of entertainment worse than it is now?

Well I’m thankful I don’t work here 🦃😆.     https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/jack-dorsey-block-layoff-easier-18509249.php

One more. I have been trying to develop a different illustration style for the characters. Most of the backgrounds were done with photoshop generative fill or stable diffusion which honestly saved me hours of time. Formerly I did settings/backgrounds with art breeder.

TurboTax is so well designed for such a shady dark UX app

Is product design a career? Also define career? 🤷‍♂️

9hrs of vibes to work to. It’s synthy. It’s wavy. It’s newish. Just put on random and go. 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5upd0RJ92soaxgJGujYWvD?si=4AKyXvW4SXSbmmTa59nhAQ&pi=u-Z0IW_AsaQ4mU

https://jonathanbrazeau.com/areyouthehero

This is a blog post 4 years in the making. It's about learning.

Does anyone need another pair of eyes on something they’re working on? I have some free time and haven’t interacted with other designers much lately

People are afraid to use anything but corpo-speak, junk, spam-talk on LinkedIn.

Interviewed with a company back in September they closed the position and said they’d open it up next year and if I was available we could continue the interview…well it just opened and they’re making good on that promise. Pretty rare these days. 🤔🙂

💁‍♂️ gimme some alternate "settings" icons that are not cogs...its for a music application 🎶

How does everyone feel about the future? Do we all think we’ll still have jobs in 10 years? 15 years?

Had an interviewer ghost me today. No email or message as to if they were going to be late ⏰ . I stuck around in the zoom for the whole 30 minutes as I had the time already blocked off. This is the third time that has happens this year…

Anyone have issues with Lottie files being bugged out in webflow. Essentially stop playing  or blinking on loop?

ok this one has some cuteness....made a few changes...also my cats make an appearance

Webflow is so unintuitive it boggles my mind how they seem to market it as a simple, drag and drop web builder.

these are just the first page in the spread, still figuring out spacing and stuff. I have been doing these in Illustrator gotta get back into In Design unless there's a better/easier desktop publishing tool out there

📣 📣 📣 is there anyone out there that can be a mentor to me in webflow? i'm doing a project and can use some expertise

After reading Radical Candor I realize that I was a pretty dang good design boss. I was doing the ‘guidance, team building, results’ responsibilities naturally by pure happenstance. Ultimately, my North Star was just doing what I thought a good design leader needed to do. 🤷‍♂️💪

Feeling a bit deflated. Did a ton of work on this contract job and had to learn webflow in the process but came up a bit short. 😑 I learned a lot and I did my best. Hopefully 🤞 we can continue. At least I learned a lot.

I'm at the point where I will pay someone to hire me.

It’s an interesting feeling being rejected by probably around 300 companies in the last year 🤨…I’m starting to wonder just how many companies there are in the world 😂

where do we find the bleeding edge of design?

ok i got a wild question: would you ever add a half size to a typeface in a design system? ie. 14.5 or 15.5    I know these can be maybe roundabout achieved by rems. But has anyone ever done this. I'm basing trying this purely off of hierarchy and aesthetics.

Making my own TTRPG using the Forged in the Dark System. Trying a landscape page design. Yes 😂 I have strange inspirations. (It's a sci-fi Neo-noir influenced by 1980s-1990s anime such as Ghost in the Shell, Akira and AD Police Files etc.)

made another one...lol. its all about the sound effects.....😸

How many ppl have just given up on finding any meaningful employment?

leave this up temporarily as it is a work in progress, maybe these graphs are a bit too pretty 🎨

IDK if this is too much info. but this got me...smh. Top 1%!!! Ok. But look at that sweet sweet equity. 😼🙄

I asked the AI for a pie chart....touché.

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