We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine has standup at 10 am

Leland Foster on Posts

https://posts.cv/leland/PluaRiCVWryBc2ZvtIHr

An aftermath promo for the nerdy designer

In awe of InVision

https://productidentity.co/p/in-awe-of-invision

Niche product design

https://productidentity.co/p/niche-product-design

What’s the future of AI hardware?

https://productidentity.co/p/whats-the-future-of-ai-hardware

The other chair

https://productidentity.co/p/the-other-chair

you can measure a product by its cultural effect

Itay Dreyfus on Posts

https://posts.cv/itaydr/zHfrB8ULItHKhce7HY0l

https://focus.flokk.com/the-design-history-of-the-h%C3%A5g-capisco

Re: Enshittification: How screens might become dumber

The Dumbification of our smart screens

https://productidentity.co/p/the-dumbification-of-our-smart-screens

exit the machine https://posts.cv/leland/PluaRiCVWryBc2ZvtIHr

It seems when technology takes over, an urge to go backward appears.

I insist design is art and product designers are artists

Designers shouldn't spend their entire days inside Figma

The average designer portfolio: problem → solution → implementation → metrics blew up
Amazing job. We’re all great designers doing our job extraordinarily well.

so we design these lengthy websites, but have you ever fully read a website?

designers transitioned from authenticity to attentionity

I wrote an aftermath promo for the nerdy designer about InVision which some of you might appreciate
https://productidentity.co/p/in-awe-of-invision

I hope to see more dumb solutions for more “smart problems”.

Following your followings is probably a good idea to avoid the algorithm

We need more communities, not tools. There are so many new tools for designers but so few communities. Tools make our job easier. Communities make us better designers.

calling to escape from mainstream design
https://productidentity.co/p/niche-product-design

In an over-optimized world simple systems get complicated. Startups are born to optimize other startups; logo grids are being created; new problems are being invented.

I clearly have a fetish for stylish backpacks

there's nothing fruitful without extreme suffering

The design patterns of the past increasingly become irrelevant

there's nothing is really urgent at your tech work

Before everyone got obsessed with “disrupting markets” and “impressing investors” it was just “let’s build something cool and useful, hopefully people will use it”. We need to get back to that. I miss those days. I’m so over the “We’re changing the world” pitches.

at this point, I'm no longer enthusiastic about the design culture of tech landing pages

For a moment in time, for some reason, email marketing platforms were my favorite web design

Detach emotionally from your work to make it work

Doing a little research—how many apps do you have on your phone?
(on iOS go to About → General → Applications)

delicious hovering https://runway.com/launch/

we fear AI taking over our jobs and lives, yet we're being controlled by algorithms

In light of recent news, the future remains to be unknown. I’m not sure AI is the true enabler for a new type of hardware. However, the evolving AI-land could be a fertile niche until its full potential is realized.

https://productidentity.co/p/whats-the-future-of-ai-hardware

Somehow I managed to write 700+ words about my chair

https://productidentity.co/p/the-other-chair

On second thought, putting it as a company might make more sense. 

That’s probably a total non-business perspective, but it's fascinating how “failed” companies that closed shops have influenced industries and disciplines greatly.

https://posts.cv/itaydr/zHfrB8ULItHKhce7HY0l

what bothers me is how the status of low-superficial content dominates. there are so many things to learn, observe, and think, yet here we are.

and to think we were seemingly in a software abundance peak a few years ago; it only got worse

Rick Rubin ties the success of art to numerous factors. One of which I really like is "the mood of the culture". I think that's a really good framing, which can be used to explain many other things.

some day we might realize that taste > data

At this pace, we'll be left with no design tools

Looking up for synonyms has become a daily activity

That’s probably a non-business perspective, but I'm fascinated by how some “failed” companies have greatly influenced industries and disciplines.

For example:
- WeWork → Coworking spaces
- InVision → Design community

Is there anything else that comes to your mind?

Question for young (junior?) designers—how did you get to design?

Was it because of interest? tech salaries? by a formal education plan? other reason?

I'm very curious to hear your experience.

we designers are "solving" the same problems

It's funny that the Capisco chair was designed 40 years ago, yet appeared in some media productions as a futuristic object.
https://focus.flokk.com/the-design-history-of-the-h%C3%A5g-capisco

2023 for eshittification, 2024 for dumbification?

https://productidentity.co/p/the-dumbification-of-our-smart-screens