When I visited London last month, a large marketing push was underway for the paperback edition of Chris van Tulleken’s UK bestseller, Ultra-Processed People: Why ... Read more

On Ultra-Processed Content - Cal Newport

https://calnewport.com/on-ultra-processed-content/

A new set of principles for better workflows when making digital products

The Gulf Between Design and Engineering / Design Systems International

https://designsystems.international/ideas/the-gulf-between-design-and-engineering/

Kagi is an ad-free, premium search engine for people who value their time, attention and privacy. With results optimized to serve you and not the advertisers, Kagi is lightning fast and offers advanced features for customizing your search experience.

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine

In this guide, we share our best practices for how to succeed as a designer founder—drawn from over a decade of investing in founders who value design

What You Need to Know Before Becoming a Designer Founder | Designer Fund

https://www.designerfund.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-before-becoming-a-designer-founder

ChatGPT was released while I was in the middle of my final solitary meditation retreat while training at the Monastic Academy. I remember walking on the path back to my room when my partner at the time excitedly shared about its emergence and the way it was taking the world by…

Daniel Thorson (@dthorson) on X

https://x.com/dthorson/status/1775171573692891468?s=20

Jerry-Lee Bosmans x Anders Waltz x John Poon

Explosive

Playing Techno, New Wave, Post Punk. Berlin techno aficionado Prosumer lays it out for all the wannabes. A harmonious lecture in house and soul, Prosumer’s here to share.

Prosumer - Manchester Special  13th February 2024

https://www.nts.live/shows/prosumer/episodes/prosumer-13th-february-2024

A quarterly zine exploring algorithmic art with a focus on combinatorics

Plus Equals #7

Figma Community plugin - Manage description of all your components in one place!  Each main component (and its variants) can have a description that might be useful for you, other designers and developers. Descriptions can provide tips for using particular component, important dev notes or act as tags for better searchin...

Manage Component Descriptions | Figma Community

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1196430722413397128/Manage-Component-Descriptions

Introducing the Light Phone III.  now available for pre-order at https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

Introducing the Light Phone III

https://youtu.be/KhMb0-t2MyU?feature=shared

"What is a TikTok dance mash up if not a digital Dorito?"

I usually steer clear of productivity advice, but Cal Newport is someone that I consistently get useful info from

https://calnewport.com/on-ultra-processed-content/

Man in-person events are the best.

Thanks Grammarly and Figma for hosting!

One of the things I'm most looking forward to once I get a job, is spending less time on LinkedIn

Enjoying this much more today! Yesterday was a little hectic here

Copywriting fail found on a large financial provider's website 🤣

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

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

Welp, the layoff (/company disintegrating) train finally hit me =(

Luckily I saw this coming and have been interviewing, but still, waking up in the morning without an income is not a great feeling. Mass sympathy to those who've been dealing with for longer.

Unpopular opinion re: Figma - they released variables too early.

I know, I know it says "Beta" all over it. But there are so many tiny little details missing from it (linking in master components, color scoping, etc etc.) that I wouldn't wanna convert my whole system yet.

For those who work closely with a separate engineering team, this is well worth a read...

https://designsystems.international/ideas/the-gulf-between-design-and-engineering/

One of my most cherished objects, poster from 1989 exhibition of work from my favorite design studio, 8vo

just make sure you're growing the KPIs of your own life

Might upset some, but...

Does anyone else have that annoying coworker who won't shut-up about the "possibilities"" of AI?

That person also isn't  technically skilled, and it seems like they believe in the "possibilities" of AI cause they don't wanna put in the work themselves

Does anyone know someone who works at the company "Watershed?" ... I really want to work there haha.

Woah, Anthropic's new Artifacts in Claude is maybe one of the first pieces of UI in LLMs where I have thought "that feels right"

If you're still using ChatGPT, maybe time to switch to Anthropic just fyi...

Started using a new search engine today, Kagi, and am very excited about it.

The ability to "eliminate websites that you find low quality or distracting or boosting those that you find more usefu" sounds so rad.

Thank @briansholis / Frontier mag for the rec!

https://kagi.com/

I’m a huge fan of slow tech, vintage appreciations, and not letting the latest new shiny object bring me joy, but ….

Damn getting the latest-and-greatest iPhone is awesome 😎

Any recs for (easy, cheap-ish, and preferably template-ized) book printing services?

Just for printing out basic stuff for family and friends, nothing professional.

Damn, you pick your career as a designer cause you wanna make stuff and you work really hard to make great stuff in your career …. But your reward is to be promoted to a position where you just manage fires and oversee requirements :/

I really don't like "speculative" design, I find it like games you played where you were a kid where you just made up rules, and could change them at will.

Also doing a take-home test on some speculative designer right now =/

Hey all - been talking to more and more designers who are looking to become founders so want to share lessons learned over the last 10 years - happy to answer questions here - https://www.designerfund.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-before-becoming-a-designer-founder

“We are not (merely) our intelligence. We are a soul, a presence, a heart, a life, a story. We are our choices. AI is none of these things.

Thanks @briansholis for sharing this tweet this morning!

https://x.com/dthorson/status/1775171573692891468?s=20

I'm re-doing my portfolio and my first step is to get every project onto read.cv, which has been super helpful to organize and write.

Got me thinking ... anyone use read.cv as their entire portfolio site? I'm thinking that might work quite well

Just about every time I've met with UX folks @Meta over
the years, I hear a consistent theme:

"Exec team wanted us to clone product X, we tried to
convince them why we should build product Y instead"

That's a tricky environment to operate in, and probably
not uncommon in SV..

The “exciting, promising, and cool” startup I took a chance on several years ago is now crumbling…

No funding, bad reviews of the product, VP telling us to look for other jobs, etc.

Agggh, feeling bummed 😕

Font fans: my favourite app for fonts just updated. If you don’t know FontStand you should. Try for free, rent or buy fonts. So handy for identity development on a tight budget. 
https://fontstand.com/

For those who are good at lettering...

The client liked this design but said the S-T-C was a bit hard to read (that's the initials of the business).

Any lettering people able to help? How could I make the letters more legible? #critique #lettering

Any former web flow users now using framer? Curious on your preferences

Yes! @jarrettfuller nails it in hist most recent newsletter! 👏

https://vimeo.com/880124196

fire collab 🔥🧡 one of my favorite gradient artists' works in motion: https://anderswaltz.com/jerryleebosmans

Damn you're good NTS.... for all the Manchester-music heads , Prosumer give us a very good treat

https://www.nts.live/shows/prosumer/episodes/prosumer-13th-february-2024

Clarity is tomorrow! Who else will be there ? Cc @jina

I deleted Instagram recently to spend less time mindless scrolling...

Then I got laid off, now I just mindlessly scroll LinkedIn, which is getting worse all the time...

Can't win! Technology has changed my brain for the worse.

Latest show at Pier 24 is a must for bay-area people!

that feeling you get when you're washing dishes and think...

Damn, that would be a great product... will I build it?

Job searching, interviewing, portfolio prepping ... is exhausting

Ahhhhh the tough job rejection has arrived after making it to the final round. Damn, would have really liked to work at this company too…

Oh well, rejections can only make you stronger right? Onward

OK I'm usually posting complaints about AI here but I gotta admit ... chatGPT is really helping me code stuff right now ...

Do people who believe they need AI to fulfill their artistic pursuits realize there is literally nothing stopping them from, idk, picking up a pencil or a paintbrush

Hoping posts can capture all the great figma advice/discussion on twitter(x?)

I'll start with this helpful plugin, used to control multiple component descriptions in one window!

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1196430722413397128/Manage-Component-Descriptions

(Outside design-post) Have you ever had to give up, or at least significantly pull back from an activity/hobby/sport that you loved?

I get more joy from mountain biking than almost anything else. But, this last year I've gotten one too many injuries 😩. (cont below)

oh! https://youtu.be/KhMb0-t2MyU?feature=shared

When people react to your slack message with the 💀 emoji what does that mean? Dead? Dead to what? Is that approval or disapproval?

The crux of designing my Portolfio site... can I show both "Full Case Studies" and "Fun/Small/Cool Projects" ... thinking about just adding this filter to my work page

Being a "professional" designer for me has lately turned into a lot of critical thinking about how and what I get enjoyment from

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