How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back 

Product Design Is Lost / Design Systems International

https://designsystems.international/ideas/product-design-is-lost/

Lola, a Boston-based startup created last year, aims to be an “anti-dating app dating-app” that fixes “everything wrong with dating apps.”

Unique dating app that will let users 'rate' matches to launch in Boston

I remember being in art school studying graphic design and encountering maybe a couple of people who fall into this category.. But then they simply switched to…

Jamie Sigadel on LinkedIn: All my friends are quitting design.

Showcasing bad, sad, messy, wild, quirky, cool, cute or even nice handwritten type. Realistic handwritten typography, real-world use cases.

Bad Type Society | Showcasing the best handwritten type

Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that started it all for them, and what (if anything) they might have done differently.

Tracy Chapman, Stephen King and Chloë Sevigny on Their Debuts

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

The "One and Only" Content Designer Problem

Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo Deal With Corporate Clients  This. This perfectly captures what it's like to be an artist and deal with corporate idiots.   Let artists be artists.  TRUST US!  This is just a fantastic ad by the Association of Independent Commercial Producers. I saw it on Linkedin but couldn't find it anywhere else.  So I close captioned it and am posting here for all to see.   I didn't make this. Just sharing to signal boost.   Enjoy  Artist, Dad, & Hobbit LIVE EVERY M/W/F AT 9AM CST  ssavaart.com

Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo Deal With Corporate Clients

Objectified (2009, 75 minutes) is a documentary film about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

Watch Objectified Free! — Oh You Pretty Things

Repository of job boards, communities, and support tools for any product designer who is seeking their next role.

Design Jobs

After spending years to work past it, Steven (Ryan Gosling) is confronted by the very thing he's been trying to avoid.  Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://pck.tv/3n1IyzK  Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Stream Current Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live  WATCH PAST SNL SEASONS Google Play - http://bit.ly/SNLGooglePlay iTunes - http://bit.ly/SNLiTunes  SNL ON SOCIAL SNL Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcsnl SNL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/snl SNL Twitter: https://twitter.com/nbcsnl SNL TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nbcsnl  GET MORE NBC Like NBC: http://Facebook.com/NBC Follow NBC: http://Twitter.com/NBC NBC Tumblr: http://NBCtv.tumblr.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/nbc NBC Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbc  #SNL #RyanGosling #SNL49 #ChrisStapleton

Papyrus 2

https://youtu.be/Q8PdffUfoF0?si=npG787or4MVm426W

Art of the Title’s Lola Landekic speaks to the graphic designers behind titles and posters for some of this year’s biggest films, exploring the process and changing landscape for these creatives setting the tone of films through typography.

Setting the stage: Should there be an Oscar for title design?

“With biz turning design into a process-heavy, measurable function, we’re not focusing on what makes designers relevant: our ability to propose new points of view, delighting users with meaningful experiences…”

https://designsystems.international/ideas/product-design-is-lost/

Did another version of the LP for my portfolio that's more "serious".. I'm honestly worried that recruiters/hiring managers don't have a sense of humor lol

But I am leaving up my sandwich page because idek I can't write about myself seriously. That's what Linkedin is for

A recruiter told me I need a website just to be considered for mid-paying contract jobs so I am playing around with Readymag.. Still can't help but think it's a waste of time when I have everything I need in Slides/Figma, ugh

This sounds like a bad idea in the making.. Also this guy already had a different Boston-based startup called Lola that was basically a business travel platform lol

Have some recent feedback rolling around incessantly in my head and it's making me realize: For people job seeking right now, a potential differentiator is going to be the work you do outside your job search..

(c, thread incoming)

I keep seeing the same “senior” level PD position posted over and over and it pains me because the listed salary is a pittance.. which may be why they (seemingly) haven’t found someone

This is purely anecdotal but I'm noticing an uptick in hiring lately as well as an uptick in being ghosted post-interview lol 

I guess that goes hand-in-hand.. 

And I specify post-interview because at this point, being ghosted after applying is "normal"

Played a little Untitled Goose Game which I haven't played in a long time.. Always fun to be a chaotic goose causing problems for other people lol

Just realized (once again) that tech is going to eventually come back to "where are all the (good) designers" and "why is this website/appy so shitty" just like how it was a decade or so ago lol

Isn't life so funny 🙃

Does anyone here watch The Traitors? (US, UK or Australian version)

I wonder how a designer would do since overthinking is part of the game Lol

Today's Linkedin rant invokes a different Linkedin rant I made almost a year ago.. Because time is a flat circle

(The article referenced here was also posted here on Posts)

My Readymag process so far:
- Work on one website design w/ 2 case studies
- Get annoyed with the (default) grid while working on the third
- Decide to use knowledge and make another better design
- Now I have to transfer what I already did but that will be fairly quick

It's liiiiveeeee: badtype.xyz 🎉  Had a few hiccups right before go-live but got there in the end. Let me know your thoughts :)

I think I have *one* web portfolio project done.. I say that because my recruiter specified it being detailed but 1) I know people don't read and 2) I want to save certain details for the actual portfolio review

Spent some time away from the computer to deal with life things and now I don’t want to be at the computer lol 

This feeling probably won’t last very long though

Just attempted to sign off on some broken Docusign pages for my lease and I'm feeling the cognitive dissonance b/t the decline of digital experiences while (certain) people continue to justify layoffs lol

I'm also reminded of this every time I visit the AV Club website

Randomly noticed my LinkedIn is broken on mobile web lol

Honestly not sure what is happening here.. I archived a bunch of messages awhile back but none of these look familiar. Could be very old and I just don’t remember

Well.. I’m feeling depressed after yet *another* rejection after a final round of interviews. 

Beginning to feel worried that being unemployed this long isn’t doing me any favors 🫥

This is a cool article - "Musicians, writers and others on the work that started it all for them"

Interesting reading this article given that my last team was a growth team.. The struggle is real. It's difficult when companies want to measure the "wrong" things (and ruin a product/service in the process)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Had an idea for a stupid meme, please clap

Spotify keeps reminding me of Beyonce's new album as if I wasn't listening to it at 2AM* when it first came out 

*could not sleep but, still

Feeling sick again and my desire for a prolonged moment of peace has replaced the insatiable need to be employed.. Health comes first, always

One of the challenges of being unemployed is the internal battle between what you believe you deserve versus what can you realistically "get".. 

For example: A lot of people right now are taking pay-cuts outside of tech just to be employed

For companies that invest in surveys that appear in places like mobile games or Youtube videos, I wonder.. do they consider the fact people are just filling out these things willy-nilly to get to whatever-it-is faster lol 

Or am I the only one who does that..

Me knowing an almost-trillion dollar company is paying basically the same rate for contracting as they did ~5 years ago

Not sure what to put on my (purposefully minimal) about page other than this little doodle I made as an homage to my love for Italian sandwiches

Wrote about how the folks who land these coveted founding content design roles can avoid the scarcity mindset trap

Still training the "you should avoid that company, it seems like a toxic dumpster fire" muscle even though I very badly want to be employed 

I have to remind myself that joining a company just to be laid-off or have my remaining sanity completely trashed is.. not worth it

Looking for any volunteers who would be willing to take a look at my website and give me feedback along the lines of:
- Things that are broken/look like crap 
- Testing on various devices 
- Is this enough to convince someone to want to interview with me lol* 

/c

Something happened with Instacart lately that made both their website harder to use/harder to communicate with the shopper.. Worked perfectly fine before

Feeling crazy because I'm pretty sure iCloud on web used to have search but now.. it doesn't?

Switching from matcha to hojicha in the hopes I will be less anxious

I have a small mountain of advice articles saved up.. Thinking of going through them to highlight advice that would be pertinent to people searching *now* (because the rules as we know them are very different lol)

Would that be interesting/helpful to anyone?

I don't know if this was already posted here (this is where a post-specific search would come in handy) but just in case it hasn't:

I was split on deleting my Glassdoor account because I wanted people to read the reviews I've left over the years but.. it's just not worth it anymore lol 

It seems like they're moving the company to more of a forum format using actual identities and.. nah

The newest issue of The HTML Review is out today! Edited by myself and Maxwell Neely-Cohen and featuring 17 incredible works of web-based poetry, storytelling, and experiments

https://thehtml.review/03/

Lovely folks, in case you have not yet watched the documentary "Objectified" or simply just want to watch it again (and again), there's a free online screening from 14 to 17 March over here for its 15th anniversary. Enjoy :)

Just started season 2 of the Australian version of The Traitors which is known for having the dumbest group of people.. I'm ready to feel smart

The recruiter is going to be like "......." when I show her this

Hello! I couldn't find a solid repository of job boards, communities, and tools for product designers seeking their next role, so I went ahead and built one. 

Shoutout to @ed117 for being 1/2 of the rating team. 🎉

And yes, the site IS split pea soup green. Enjoy!

“Is your father.. Jonathan Wingdings?”

https://youtu.be/Q8PdffUfoF0?si=npG787or4MVm426W

Given that companies have their pick of pretty much anyone they want these days, it's very odd to see a specific job pop-up when you'd assume they'd find someone by now..

Nice to see someone give props to these designers, specifically the ones who worked on Poor Things.. I wish someone uploaded the full-length transitional titles somewhere because they were a ~vibe~

Made it to the Read.cv newsletter! Maybe I should post more sandwich art*

*specifically illustrations of sandwiches, though I'm open to art using sandwiches.. 🤔

More Readymag portfolio progress

(the carousel arrows are part of the editing interface, not the website)

Pulling examples of older design work (2016-2018) and I’m glad my past self saved things as high quality PDFs, especially since this was pre-Figma (for me)

I've basically been sick all of April so far and I am.. very over it 🫠

I was beginning to feel better using medicine but then that same medicine gave me what is essentially food poisoning so.. nevermind lol