A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

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

A mockup of a sign in dialog for Google. The Sign in is top-down (not left-right like the new one). And the email/phone textbox-label is placed on the text field edge to be out of the way.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079445/google-sign-in-password-login-redesign

Screenshot of Adobe Illustrator spamming a "save to cloud instead of on your computer" dialog when selecting "Save a copy" from the File menu.

<p>InVision Community,  Today I am writing to share that after careful consideration we have made the difficult decision to discontinue [&hellip;]</p>

InVision design collaboration services shutdown | Inside Design Blog

https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/invision-design-collaboration-services-shutdown/

The first native iOS design tool built for creating mobile products letting you design, iterate, and collaborate directly from your phone. Experience your design as you create it, while taking full advantage of native iOS features to bring your product to life.

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http://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-08-06%20Apple%E2%80%99s%20UI%20Hide%20and%20Seek%20on%20macOS/

Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/31/top-reason-android-users-switch-to-iphone/

Survey Results on Why Android Users Switch to iPhone

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/01/android-switcher-reasons

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

Screenshot of Apple Mail on iPhone showing an empty inbox.

[…] TikTok […] LinkedIn and Twitter […] algorithmically de-boost anything with a URL in it, encouraging users to share screenshots (often unsourced) rather than linking to content and reducing their distribution.

"Link in Bio" encourages copyright infringement — Wenzels.Blog

https://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-05-12%20link%20in%20bio/

https://tympanus.net/Tutorials/WebGLLensRefraction/

I would immensely appreciate being able to import and export PGP keys in Apple Mail to read and write encrypted emails.

I wish Apple Mail had PGP support! — Wenzels.Blog

https://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-07-14%202%20Encrypted%20emails%20in%20Apple%20Mail/

By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing Basecamp or HEY for the web. That's all done directly in HTML ...

Design for the web without Figma

https://world.hey.com/dhh/design-for-the-web-without-figma-4bc3a218

Who is more likely to care about your voice after the election? A wanna-be-dictator that is serving his last legal term in office, or Kamala, who will want to be re-elected in 2028?

Home — Wenzels.Blog

I’ve recently heard the suspicion that Apple has a problem because its new Macs are too good. It’s a thesis that works as follows:

Do early adopters overestimate their importance? — Wenzels.Blog

https://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-05-19%20do%20early%20adopters%20overestimate%20their%20importance/

Encrypto is a free app for both Mac and Windows that allows you to add encryption to a file before sending it to friends or coworkers. Secure your files, download it now!

Encrypto | Encrypt your files before sending them to friends or coworkers

Wenn Ihr Web-Designy oder Ihre Agentur durch einen solchen Dienst ersetzbar ist, dann sollten Sie dies unbedingt schnellstmöglich tun. Die Aufgabe eines guten Dienstleistys muss sein, Ihnen bei wesentlich mehr als nur der technischen Umsetzung zu helfen!

WENZELS.DESIGN — Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, oder doch ein Web-Designy?Menü öffnenMenü schließen

https://wenzels.design/notes/wix-squarespace-webflow-oder-doch-ein-web-designy

Stop sharing your salary expectations during interviews. 

Designers typically answer this poorly given the pressure cooker environment of interviews. 

I’ve… | 19 comments on LinkedIn

⚡️Zander Whitehurst on LinkedIn: #ux #ui #career #interviews #productdesign | 19 comments

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zanderwhitehurst_ux-ui-career-activity-7136298046467776512-XBTL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

https://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-05-25%20Being%20late%20to%20the%20AI-Party%20is%20good%20for%20Apple/

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A screenshot showing the Apple Music app’s mini player next to some widgets. A red circle highlights the top right corner of the Music app and the top left corner of a widget. The app has a much smaller corner radius.

Girl standing in front of a japanese castle

Need an excuse to break out the crystal glassware

friend of mine made this great resource for how to protect your work from nonconsensual AI training ⤵

#WWDC2023 Today is the day! I'll be active on Ivory, posts.cv feels more like the place to post polished works.

Exploring - the scroll indicator gets thick as one hits the rubber band territory

I just rediscovered the bio text I used to use in many places years ago and I kinda like it enough to update my profiles with it—but it also feels a little too cheesy? Comments are welcome:

> It's our vision of the future guiding our decisions towards itself.

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

We live in the information age. AI tools like ChatGPT are constantly churning out low quality nonsense. This needs to change.

Introducing Beem. A delightful, personalized thinking machine that helps you interact with the world around you.

https://beem.computer

I've decided to apply for a Master's program in design. Wish me luck 🍀

There, I fixed it: Google Sign In. The email/phone input-label will remain visible while you type.

What is this about? See: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079445/google-sign-in-password-login-redesign

Some on #Adobe, all I want is to save an EPS to hand-off to print!

This year we get a bonus day, Feb 29! #leapYear

iOS 17.2 allows you to disable playback history for Apple Music in selected focus modes. No more gym-music ruining your Apple Music algorithm! 🙌

InVision’s shutdown (https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/invision-design-collaboration-services-shutdown/) once again strengthens my conviction to avoid cloud based solutions for long term storage and documentation.

So, Adobe wants to up my price from the reduced 29€/month to 64€/month in June. Are the Serif Apps, the Affinity apps, still a good replacement for Illustrator & Photoshop?

I wish there was an iPod Classic 2023 edition with ISB-C.

Prototypes made with Play. Video editing with Screenflow! https://www.createwithplay.com/

Life is precious and about so much more. Make use of the time you have.
 
Call somebody who you haven’t called in a while.
 
Give somebody a hug who you haven’t given a hug in a while.
 
Tell somebody you love them who you haven’t told that you love them in a while. 🫶

Apple’s UI Hide and Seek on macOS http://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-08-06%20Apple%E2%80%99s%20UI%20Hide%20and%20Seek%20on%20macOS/

Most Android to iPhone switchers do it for #UX and not for iMessage and FaceTime: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/01/android-switcher-reasons

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.

Some “social” platforms block links to maximize profit. This practice promotes the spread of stolen content, but you can fight it. https://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-05-12%20link%20in%20bio/

Check out this amazing progressively enhanced WebGL Lens Refraction demo by Codrops 🪩

This demo was built with Lenis (smooth scroll), r3f (THREE.js renderer for React) and r3f-scroll-rig by 14 Islands 🙌

🔗 https://tympanus.net/Tutorials/WebGLLensRefraction/

An open letter to the team working on Apple Mail @ Apple. https://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-07-14%202%20Encrypted%20emails%20in%20Apple%20Mail/

After months of inactivity, I wrote two blog posts today! → https://wenzels.blog/

Apple offers good protections, if you enable them. However, not all your data is encrypted. You should do it anyways: https://proton.me/blog/iphone-privacy

I believe the thesis that people won’t upgrade as often because Apple's M-Series Macs are too good is flawed. Unfounded assumptions and some missing thoughts make it inapplicable.

https://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-05-19%20do%20early%20adopters%20overestimate%20their%20importance/

Encrypto, a free app: https://macpaw.com/encrypto

An easy to use tool to encrypt files on Windows and Mac so you can send them via emails etc. Don’t send passwords or credit card data via email attachment. But if you must, please, for the love of your hidden nudes, encrypt them!

Testing is important, here is why:

Video alt-text: The video shows a screen recording of GitHub. The user can’t find the “sign in” link and has to use search to reveal that it is white text on a white background outside the visible area of the page.

Ich bin jedes Mal nervös, wenn ich etwas auf einem meiner Blogs veröffentliche, egal wie oft ich es "nur noch einmal" durchlese. Heute gehts um Squarespace vs. Web-Designy

https://wenzels.design/notes/wix-squarespace-webflow-oder-doch-ein-web-designy

no therapy session or head massage has ever given me the mental clarity that a spot clean kitchen can

Imagine Apple making a first-party mechanical keyboard. They could put a whole ass computer in there, Touch ID and sell it as the perfect Vision Pro companion. Would solve this weird half-mast thing people are doing with their laptops and Vision Pro.

Zander out there doing the good work https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zanderwhitehurst_ux-ui-career-activity-7136298046467776512-XBTL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Definition of a nice looking product MVP. 😎

I think Apple integrates AI and ML subtly and effectively, enhancing functionality without the risks of generative AI.

https://wenzels.blog/notes/2024-05-25%20Being%20late%20to%20the%20AI-Party%20is%20good%20for%20Apple/

The Sounds of Earth, Voyager Golden Record

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

The #WWDC23 pins arrived a while ago, and I just love the simplicity of this M2 pin!

I didn’t know you could be a supporter here on Posts.CV — I love it, this platform is becoming more and more what I always wanted Twitter to be 💙

I wish widgets on #macOS #Sonoma had the same corner-radius as apps — or the other way round.

Today my YouTube looked very different than it did yesterday. First I was irritated, but this layout makes better use of the available screen real estate. I just think its not aesthetically pleasing.

The iPod was simple, iTunes was complex. I would use the feature rich, but complex iTunes to purchase music, and setup my playlists. But, I used the distractions-free iPod to listen to music. I miss that approach. Today, everything feels so complex all the time.

Furry unicorns possess the extraordinary ability to change the color of their fur at will, allowing them to blend seamlessly into their surroundings and evade detection from curious onlookers. #randomGPT

I just love this community! It's so full of friendly people and beautiful photos.

If you know anyone hiring an entry-level designer, kindly hit me up 🎄❄️🤞🏾