“Design isn’t just about where someone clicks anymore, it’s about how an experience flows through their day and adapts to their content, whether they’re on the phone, laptop, VR, car or switching between all”
-Joe Smiley
I was researching on multimodal design systems and I stumbled on Joe Smiley’s medium article and all I can say is: the only way you get yourself out of the controversy surrounding AI taking your job as a designer is to not remain stagnant.
Researching and learning how vastly the system has grown, how infrastructures are built from ground up, the kind of systems that only grows and evolve on proper maintenance, deriving your own theories and building on it while you also creating designs that put your theories to test is the way to go.
The digital world is much more greater than just screens now, it’s not just about tapping anymore, audio inputs are given, even visual inputs, gestures. Systems now learn based on their user’s intent over time. How can a designer leverage that and integrate it into how they design solutions and not just causal products that an AI assistant can easily replicate with just a well structured prompt?
Leave Figma/Framer for a minute, visit the internet library and archive and learn patterns, understand systems and how they have grown, pick a niche and see how machine learning helped that niche evolve, be that “dog with the bone” and keeping digging at it. You shouldn’t relent or decide to jump ship because you think design won’t be relevant in the future because it will be, design is the basis of it all.
You just have to figure out what kind of designer you’d be and if you’re building for legacy or just the quick cash.
Good luck X neighbor 🌞
I just hit 200+ active subscriptions across my apps!
Not a huge number, but 200 strangers paying every month for something I built alone feels better than any corporate promotion ever did in my career.
Konnichiwa, genki desu ka?
So, out of our in-app features is a section called kit daily. A local news production for Nigerian University students.
As a design exploration, I kinda just made our first publication, It's only up from here.
GNKU.
I made a personal black hole that makes you take breaks 🕳️
A shader for Ghostty that spawns a small black hole in your terminal - it drifts around, gravitationally lensing your text. The longer you work without stopping, the bigger it gets, until it's basically demanding you go touch grass
Take a break and it quietly shrinks away
…mentality that is synonymous to the corporate world, the government is not the problem anymore cos private sectors are becoming more powerful than the public, government or the mixed-enterprises so let’s help each other
At this point, the problem is longer than which culture influences the mind or which one doesn’t.
If the corporate world portrays itself to be as accessible as all of these shortcuts you claim the youths are attracted to…then that might just level the field a bit.
“I used to feel Nigerians are really bright. We’ve had over 500 vacancies since 2024, and we’re still struggling to find Nigerians to fill those roles. They don’t meet global standards. I blame social media, yahoo and hook up culture..”
— Tosin Eniolorunda, Moniepoint CEO
Even the IT or SIWES program that is meant to serve as an avenue to help us learn the transition from the student mind to a working class individual is wack. We get underpaid, undervalued and at times most students level the field untrained because of the survival of the fittest
UX is more than just visuals; it’s about removing friction.
For HNG Stage 1, I took a deep dive into @CDcare, redesigning their flow to prioritize intent-first login and scannable discovery. Clean, high-contrast, and evidence-based.
#HNG#UXDesign#PD#CDcare@hnginternship