Screenshot of Figma showing the Admin-settings for a team with the AI training feature circled in red.

🩷 Product designer & design educator📱 Fintech, Crypto & Education 🎓 MA in Japanese aesthetics✨ Content creator🌎 Language learning enthusiast👋 hello@lindiebotes.com Home = 🇸🇬🇿🇦🇯🇵

Lindie Botes ✦

we've gone from cultivating taste to worshipping metrics

Sharing this fantastic graphic from Christopher Butler, encourage you to read the whole article

https://www.chrbutler.com/2024-05-02

The job market is not a vibe these days. If anyone knows someone looking for a senior product designer for SaaS, web3 or early stage startups, please let me know and I’ll be happy to send my portfolio and CV 💕

I've noticed over the past year Google has made some really interesting UI choices with their products. For the life of me, I can't figure out why they would ship these updates as most of them seem poorly executed. Illegible font sizes, wonky padding, clashing colours, etc.

This is actually an amazing UX that I haven’t seen before. I was booking an Uber to the airport and usually you just have to choose the terminal. I didn’t know my terminal, but Uber showed the airlines! So good!

What’s your favorite note taking/ productivity / PKM tool that isn’t Notion?

“Creative Al tools can be seen as sophisticated plagiarism software, as they do not produce genuinely original content but rather emulate and modify existing works by artists, subtly enough to circumvent copyright laws.”

— ChatGPT (via Rick Beato on YouTube)

I drew my snack tonight. Trying to eat more mindfully without screens 🌷

Anyone on Goodreads? Looking to expand my reading genres and get new reccs 📖

I don't hate AI. LLMs are cool. They can be transformative. I use Copilot too and it has the same problems.

I just also think that companies should properly license training data and be wary of the consequences of what they build. We can have a responsible future if we want to.

Do we use hashtags here? I’m new 👋🏻

I quit my chaotic job and the peace is overwhelming 😌

If you haven’t already, make sure to disable AI training in Figma. Why, you ask? Generative AI has repeatedly been shown to reproduce what it was trained on, and even without an NDA, publishing designs via Figma AI before your customer’s implement them is a very bad idea.

I quit my toxic job 🎉 what I’m planning to do now:
• recover from burnout 
• learn to code 😭 
• freelance UX consulting and product design
• tutor Korean and Hungarian
• visit Japan 
• finish my thesis 
• learn how to use Procreate 
• read more books
• update portfolio website

What in tarnation is this new UI on Instagram? Idk if I am getting old but it took me ages to find what I was looking for and my eyes keep jumping around

Have y’all tried Bento? Super fun way to set up a profile / microsite 🤓

mine is www.bento.me/lindiebotes 

idk if it’s too chaotic since my two loves of languages and design are combined 👀

My iOS18 wishlist:
 
- Delete app cache data

What would you do in the situation where none of your product design work from the last 6 months has ever made it to production? 

And it’s not because you’re a bad designer but because the company is slow, team is disorganized, engineers are too busy and team priorities unclear

What’s the crappiest app you still use because you have to?

Is anyone here using Capacities instead of Notion? 🥳

Finally joining Posts 🫡 been getting tired of X, happy to be here! I will post about the intersection of design, languages & AI. ❤️ 🤖

I submitted my Masters in Information Design thesis today! 🥳🥲🙏🫡💕 what a journey 🥺