A digital wooden bookshelf with a collection of videogames on the shelves. Lots of shadows and highlights to make it sort of look physically real.

A white box with “iPhone 13 mini, Apple certified pre-owned” written on it.

A wooden letter tray with a toucan picture on the side. The letter tray is attached to a wall and has keys hanging off the bottom. There is a watercolour landscape picture in the tray.

https://addison.design/case-studies/therma

Dark Mode App Icons

https://lmnt.me/blog/dark-mode-app-icons.html

A disturbing AI-generated cartoon image of a superhero mom

Your bag total is 4 thousand pounds. Haha not today

Figma was the latest company to mishandle AI and design — foreshadowing the loss of a vast array of design jobs. We should demand better from our tools and industry.

Design deserves better than Figma AI

https://sdw.space/figma-ai-and-lost-jobs/

Note: These updates are rolling out throughout May. If you don't see them in your account, please be patient; they will be available soon.


We’re currently in the process of moving Drafts into tea...

Updates to how drafts work

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/18409526530967-Updates-to-how-drafts-work

The World Cup France 98 mascot, the chicken named Footix, making a peace sign. Underneath are the words OKFC in the KFC font.

Screenshot of Messages icon on iOS. The notification badge is a pleasant shade of green.

A zoomed in crop of a Nintendo DS skin with a black kind of textured plastic look.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688

On AI and the commoditisation of design – Scott Riley

https://www.scott.is/writing/about/ai-and-design

https://read.cv/sites/templates/f05h8yxhy

Relax for the same result | Derek Sivers

This is an archive of space-related emblems that I design as an ongoing personal project.

Emblems of Space

Figma’s new AI features settings. Content training option has “Let other people use your designs without any credit” added to it.

https://appclip.apple.com/id?p=com.createwithplay.playgen2.Clip&pid=3d34926b55ba80q4npp&e=0

Family Values

AI stuff, higher fidelity prototyping and maybe some kind of publish to web (compete with Framer?). It’s strange how Figma is, I think, pretty much rendering elements with css layout rules, like a web page, but not letting you share as a web page.

Remember Delicious Library? Skeuomorphism city! Found my old html exports

Love seeing this. A radial menu would have been fun. The new Figma UI looks good though - back to good old floating Photoshop panels

Just upgraded to the latest handheld mobile telephone!

Why is Olympic sports coverage so varied in its tech? In a triathlon you get a list of the leaders only every 10 minutes or whenever the commentators care to name them. In archery you get the athletes heart rate on the screen at all times!

Going to change career and start just adding magnets to things, full time. ❤️ 🧲

Sharing this next week but thought I'd put it up early on Posts...! 

*New work- Product design for Therma

Mini case study
https://addison.design/case-studies/therma

(Re)finished this brilliant game from the year 2000. Only took 2000 attempts to beat the final boss.

Doesn’t look the greatest but I shot this with an iPhone 13 mini through a lens on a pair of binoculars 📸

I’m honestly tired of the ‘ex-Google’  ‘ex-bed bath and beyond’ bullshit

I've done about a hundred portfolio reviews. The single worst mistake you can make is revealing halfway through the call that you're actually just a large pile of hermit crabs, your thousand pincers snapping together to form a rough facsimile of human speech.

Louie Mantia with a typically detailed thoughtful article https://lmnt.me/blog/dark-mode-app-icons.html

Swimming through life pooping rainbows along the way

Back from my longest holiday for a decade, refreshed and inspired. Now to find enough time to create EVERYTHING…

Tried an Apple Vision Pro today. Brilliant interactions and fidelity but no better for daily work right now than a Mac. Immersive clips incredible, especially sports. Can’t wait to watch football on Apple’s Premier League channel and flinch when the ball is kicked at the camera.

Emails without the noise. Pinch to SAY LESS

“AI should be my production designer, my assistant and helper; not my creative director. Or, worse: an understudy of all, ready to copy your work and process for anyone to use without any of your thoughtfulness and soul.” https://sdw.space/figma-ai-and-lost-jobs/

Should designers code?
Should designers be trapped in amber?
Should designers be left on overnight?

Happy config! (This seems horribly anti student, beginner, anyone who doesn’t yet make money from their design) https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/18409526530967-Updates-to-how-drafts-work

Spent a silly hour drawing this after a silly thought. Might make it an incredibly niche T-shirt. #worldcup #france98 #footix

I think this (17) is a little visual iOS 18 bug, but a pretty little bug

Loving the Delta emulator so making my own skin.
I haven’t done texture and depth like this for a long time!

Now fiddling about trying to get real time ‘reflections’ working based on what’s on the screen.

Delta: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688

One of the nice things about having a personal website is ignoring all the things you’ve learned in business, like “don’t hide content behind carousels and other frivolous interactions”.

What’s the best mature design system, ready to use in complex products? Preferably properly set up with Figma libraries, and able to be customised a bit.

This is also really good. “Remember: the floor might have been raised by this shit, but we’re responsible for raising the ceiling.” https://www.scott.is/writing/about/ai-and-design

major config fomo, so i made FigCV – a new @cv site template, made in SitesOS~

- I can't believe it's not Figma™
- real layer list™
- hide chrome (cmd + .)
- ... and more!

preview ur own projects in a figma-like UI here: https://read.cv/sites/templates/f05h8yxhy

“Relax for the same result.”

https://sive.rs/relax

alright i'm done building my guestbook!! 2.5K lines of code and 2wks of hacking. figured before i share it live, i'd write a little about it cus the complexity of the project increased rapidly and thought it was interesting.

This is how you add Triggers and Actions in Play with our upcoming Interactions 2.0 update.

took tons of photos today since the sunlight is awesome, and this is my favorite. Did not realize that the man thumped up and the girl winked towards me when I took this shot, so missed the opportunity to respond back. But really love this shot when I view it on the screen 📸

Beautiful personal project from Patricia Klein: embroidered emblems for space missions.

eos.patriciaklein.de

This is overkill isn’t it? But which is the nicer overkill?
1. Grab and spin
2. Simpler turn on click

went to Config 2023 by myself with a free ticket someone here gave me. returning this year with a team of 7! hang in there everyone, I believe in you!

I missed the keynote and am feeling cynical, but...

I prototyped an iOS app that uses your iPhone camera to turn surroundings into stunning gradients.

Create your own wallpapers whenever inspiration strikes. You're welcome!

Check it out: https://appclip.apple.com/id?p=com.createwithplay.playgen2.Clip&pid=3d34926b55ba80q4npp&e=0

Me: “Sit… good dog!”
My telephone: “Calling Sue Goodall, a letting agent who showed you around a closet of mold 11 years ago.”

Sweating the small (unimportant) stuff for a portfolio refresh

We're trained to see messiness as the enemy, but – so long as you have a way to filter/search the chaos when you need to – lots of magical things happen when you embrace messiness instead

I’d really like to pin a post or two to the top of my profile. What do you think @andy ? I ask this as someone whose post *quantity* is going up recently!

After 4 weeks and 9 rounds of interviews, they assign you the task of designing data tables.

Amazing article about some of the best interaction / experience design around. Visual examples for days https://benji.org/family-values

Real old man time, but... Figma UI3 is annoying. Less UI for the sake of looking nice? If you’re going to have floating panels, at least let me move them?