John Barrier Wilson

Design Engineer • Incredibly Average Triathlete • Generalist… often times better than a master of one.

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@Shpigford DM’d you!

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Github? More like...

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@jeetnirnejak @darylginn @nikitabier +2 @nikitabier

[Joseph Alessio @alessio_joseph]

how it feels to ask for design feedback

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@jeetnirnejak @paper @motiondotdev You're crushing it @jeetnirnejak! Keep the good work coming!

[Oleksiy Kovyrin 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @kovyrin]

Went for a Tesla FSD demo today after watching all the Europe FSD videos on Twitter. 15 minutes later got myself a Model Y 😂 I did not believe the hype, but spending an hour in the FSD mode closed the deal. The most insane experience since the first time trying a coding agent!

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

This is really neat but it’s not a design tool as much as it’s a design _production_ tool.

The practice of design is mostly about what comes before production.

There’s no doubt in my mind that all parts of software production will become automated very soon. Writing code, making web pages, putting pieces of a design system together etc.

And that’s fine. I think few people actually enjoy this kind of production work. Wouldn’t it be better if we spent our precious time in life on what is more meaningful?!

At the core, the practice of design is methodical; like architecture, not like art. In a nutshell: We find constraints, form comprehension of the whole and propose solutions that honor those constraints. First after that do we enter some form of production phase, usually prototypes first, learn about some constraints that were hidden before, loop back, prototype and then build the production-grade “final” artifact.

These last few tasks are quickly losing value because AI tools can do it much faster (not yet better though) than humans. It’s simply just what has the best RoI for a business.

Some companies and individuals will continue to spend human time on certain parts of the “production line” as a market differentiator, but it will cost them a relatively high price compared to competitors.

Anyhow, I still haven’t seen a tool better than Figma that supports the actually-interesting part of the design process.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Figma focused their products on that, maybe separating “products for production” of “products for ideation & exploration.” The latter would obviously still leverage AI, but not to do the work for me but rather to support my efforts the way a therapist helps me live a better life (not living my life for me.)

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@socoloffalex Let’s go! You’ve already got my 👀

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@dzzgnr Ship it. Will download ASAP

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Every generation of tech has its "this changes everything" and "game changing" moments.

Most of the time it's an over-hyped press release.

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Tech media is undefeated.

A thread of real headline energy:

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"AI will make developers obsolete. Anyone can code now."

We heard this about compilers. Then about cloud. Then about no-code. The developers are still here. They're just more expensive.

Go look up Jevons Paradox.

https://t.co/eRoQgUYhQ6