Photo of a new MacBook with a highly textured look to the screen.

Figma screenshot. Connecting: 19/83541 complete.

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.

The portfolio website of Product designer, Joe Russell. Joe has over a decade's experience in delivering intuitive and engaging user experiences that meet business goals and work for real people.

Joe Russell - Product designer

Dark Mode App Icons

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

Screenshot of Home Screen showing a ‘ghosts’ icon for the Posts app

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

Linear streamlines issues, projects, and roadmaps. Purpose-built for modern product development.

Linear – Plan and build products

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.

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

A colourful painting of birds by a window looking out onto a sunny bay

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

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Family Values

Maybe the nano-texture display was a mistake

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!

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

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

Got myself a fancy new domain, www.joe.cv. Thanks to @mehdi and @andy for the great tech support!

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

It’s that spooky time of year when I don’t feel like a complete egotist using the Ghosts icon I made

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.

I don't think this would make a good talk for a wider audience and I don't think I'm ready for my speaker era so here's an audio-less rendering of my talk.

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/

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

Maybe it’s a shame how much design skill is focused on productivity products rather than JOYFUL things... but DANG, Linear.app is on a different level to Jira, DevOps etc

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

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

How did I ever find time for side projects?
(I will again one day)

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

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

[New Blog Post] Digging Into PlantStudio, a Bit Late

https://pketh.org/plantstudio.html

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.”

It might be pretty useless for documentation, but for prototypes to demo web app behaviour, Framer is amazing.

Sweating the small (unimportant) stuff for a portfolio refresh

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!

Great, thanks Linkedin.
Anyone know a good file size EXPANSION tool?

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?