Welcome to season 4!

The ‘design, Design, DESIGN, design!’ podcast is where we, Jaan Orvet and Jesper Bylund, poke, prod, analyse and share our opinions on design. The everyday, the mundane as well as the exceptional,  and explore how people affect, and are affected by, design. 


design, Design, DESIGN, design! | AI as OS

When “hacks” stop working

https://jesperbylund.com/blog/when-hacks-stop-working

A rested mind is a smart mind! With summer vacations coming to an end it's time to harness all the valuable ideas and insights that have percolated in the minds of your team members over the past f...

The All-Design Podcast | Will you use your magic booster pack?

design, Design, DESIGN, design! | Coaching designers

The Platforms Starter Kit is a full-stack Next.js app with multi-tenancy and custom domain support. Built with Next.js App Router, Vercel Postgres and the Vercel Domains API.

Platforms Starter Kit – The all-in-one starter kit for building multi-tenant applications.

Is it a skill or is it information?

https://www.jesperbylund.com/blog/is-it-a-skill-or-is-it-information

Things I did in my Thirties

https://www.jesperbylund.com/blog/things-i-did-in-my-thirties

https://www.jesperbylund.com/blog/parallax-cards

Does the technology used make the project worth more?

Why are interiors, and in general things in real-world-materials, always so thick in the US? 🤔 I see a lot of leather bound notebooks and wooden tools that are so very thick / big / robust. It's like the opposite of Danish design. Anyone know why this is?

fully convinced that you can only choose 3 at a time

social life
personal projects
exercising
full-time work

Last week @orvet and I sat down and tried to have a calm and rational conversation about designing for AI. We tried…

Another short thought provoking episode.Perfect for your commute to home office.

https://designpodcast.org/s4/4

I had to learn you can't "hack" health the hard way:
https://jesperbylund.com/blog/when-hacks-stop-working

The worse I feel the more I indulge.

Bad night? More coffee.
Slight cold? More snacks.

This pattern has created a strange feedback loop, so now I tend to feel slightly better by abstaining treats. 😂

“Obedience is the opposite of creativity” – David Deutsch

Reactivating old users from an email list.
It's a little mind blowing to see someone reactivate that initially signed up NINE years ago.. 🤯

I'm so proud of this, we're in the top 2% of podcasts! :D :D :D 
All Design podcast 
s05e01

Will you use your magic booster pack?
https://designpodcast.org/s5/1

OK.. I wasn’t expecting such cool interaction from Behance. How long is this a thing?

Is coaching designers the most apt use of the saying “herding cats”?

https://designpodcast.org/s4/3

This weekend I started building a webmentions projects.

URLs are basically real estate today. And you should be able to comment on them, publicly.

Making discovery a common good.
Webmentions already exist, I’m hoping my project http://note.fish (not up yet) can contribute.

Before you can solve a problem, you have to ask if it requires a skill or information? https://www.jesperbylund.com/blog/is-it-a-skill-or-is-it-information

Should you be using AI tools to create art? Is it even possible?https://designpodcast.org/s5/4

Being certain of something is an emotion. Not a result.

Research should answer specific questions, it should not give you certainty. #ux #Research

Deliberate practice:

Doing the thing. And failing. But doing it anyway.

Walked past this incredibly graphical switch boarding a KLM flight yesterday

Found 11 layouts in a SaaS I'm reworking. 11. It does 2 things.

Apple's new chip logos are suspiciously similar to e/acc

For folks running LLMs or diffusion models locally, what models & hardware are you running, and are you happy with the performance?

Boredom is the magic pill of productivity

Very different and niche areas of design:
https://designpodcast.org/s4/2

I had a breakthrough when I realised I shouldn't look to minimise the risk of failing, I should try to minimise the cost of failing.

Now I lean heavily on the fact that everything fails, usually several times, on the way to a success.

My wine tasting app is now multiplayer! 🍷🥳

I want to work on an iMac. But I move around a lot…

Examples photos showing off how good mobile cameras are now so good I don't even know what they're talking about anymore... 🤷‍♂️

There has never been a better time to be a maker. 

You have to make what people want to buy. This is commerce.

Don’t ever compromise on quality. But sell the dream.

Be narrow. It’s much better to mean a great deal to few people than next to nothing to a huge amount.

Turning 40 today. Super weird.

To make sure I'm not wasting my time I sat down and made a list of the significant things I did in the last 10 years. Hoping for a lot more in the next 10.  https://www.jesperbylund.com/blog/things-i-did-in-my-thirties

I’m an activert:

Doing things gives me energy.
Consuming things saps my energy.

What I don’t understand is why we don’t build an open social layer to the web?

RSS and webmentions are already there. We need some apps. And a strong community to start from. Maybe #buildinpublic could be that group?

I’m incredibly excited about where ai is going UI wise. 😅 I just… can’t spend enough time on it..

In this episode we "review" the new buttons LoveFrom made for Moncler. My cohost goes into a unnaturally negative state for him.

What I love about posts is that it’s a community of creatives. X is overrun by noise. But so is mastodon and the rest. Posts is calm, beautiful, and creative. I love that.

My newsletter CTA was a bit dull. So I made a more colourful one. What do you think?

#buildinpublic

Which padding should be bigger: vertical or horizontal?

Working on a subtle effect for my consulting sites header.
How would you improve it?

Cast my vote on the community icon, that was tough. 😅

Let's see what the year has in store for us all; designers, clients and audiences. This episode is not about "trends". Rather it's about signals and shifts that started in 2023, or even earlier, and are set to bloom in the year to come.

https://designpodcast.org/s4/5

I used to hang out with body builders. And they would repeat "progress is progress".

Building a huge physique takes years. The changes are not really noticeable. 

So you have to trust the process, your job is to make a little progress, consistently.

I wanted to make a nice blur effect on a parallax card. Far from perfect, I think it turned out pretty ok. https://www.jesperbylund.com/blog/parallax-cards