@wstruye
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Winston
Designer in Oakland, He/him
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Anyone here on bluesky or can recommend good design accounts on blue sky ?

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Feeling like I need to design for myself but then I need to find the time for myself

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Wait so what’s so special about Arc browser?

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

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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...

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

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

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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.

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

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Sharing this fantastic graphic from Christopher Butler, encourage you to read the whole article chrbutler.com/2024-05-02

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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

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that feeling you get when you're washing dishes and think... Damn, that would be a great product... will I build it?

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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.

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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

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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 =/

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

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Man in-person events are the best. Thanks Grammarly and Figma for hosting!

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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 😕

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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

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Jamie Sigadel

Doing my part / Attempting to do my part

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Ana Malai

messy but still kinda fun 💊

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

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Caspian Ievers

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. fontstand.com/

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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

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Jamie Sigadel

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

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Excited to be here again today

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Ana Malai

vimeo.com/880124196 fire collab 🔥🧡 one of my favorite gradient artists' works in motion: anderswaltz.com/jerryleebosmans

Explosive
Jerry-Lee Bosmans x Anders Waltz x John Poon
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Clarity is tomorrow! Who else will be there ? Cc @jina

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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 😎

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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! kagi.com/

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
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.
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Copywriting fail found on a large financial provider's website 🤣

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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.

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(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)

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Edvard Scott
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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

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

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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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Leland Foster
Replying to @wstruye

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

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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 :/

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Noah Levin

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..

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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.

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