Justin Delabar

Design exec | Systems thinker | Writing Systems & Signals - | Exploring design’s role in shaping products, platforms & power

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

Wonder what they'll do when he ages out of the role in 3000 years.

[Variety @Variety]

Grogu walks the red carpet at “The Mandalorian and Grogu” premiere in LA

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

@theoceanblooms Wonder what they'll do when he ages of the role in 3000 years

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

I would like to announce that not only am I shifting to AI, I am AI infrastructure now. Kofi link in bio~

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Look at this.

Allbirds, $BIRD, is a shoe company.

It said it will rebrand to Newbird AI.

It will convert its assets to "acquire high-performance GPU assets."

It is up 600% today.

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

@dotsonc Can he hit

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

Congrats, we've reinvented Flash

[Robert Pavlinić @rpavlini]

okay html-in-canvas is pretty magical ✨

adding loupes to websites one at a time

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

I think he sounds like that because he doesn't have a throat.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Coming soon—The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

One of my team members is of Iranian descent. The American president threatening civilizational genocide is not a topic in the leadership handbook. This is beyond insanity, and we're far past the point of needing the 25th amendment invoked.

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

There's no question this is a historic misallocation of capital that could otherwise be spent on improving lives today and not in some sort of fever dream, magical "AGI" future.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

What if the whole LLM thing is a false start? If the flaws are inherent systemic problems - if the compounding of hallucinations/errors can't be sorted out? If the capex build out is one of the biggest misallocations of capital ever? Then what? https://t.co/XVhr6mfCTN

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

The Artemis site's ultrafast performance is what we could've had if ad tracking and re-targeting script bloat didn't exist.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

i love seeing government websites this fast 🥹

[Cincymilla @CincyShadow]

Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Toledo, and Akdon prop up the states economy. They're 85% of the GDP and 83.5% of it's jobs.

If it weren't for "Ohio's run into the ground cities," Ohio would be a "dead state."

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

Wrote down some thoughts on how design skill sets need to evolve to meet the moment, including designing for predictive and generative experiences instead of static and deterministic ones. https://t.co/WgOYdFfoeK

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

One thing about AI that often gets overlooked, imo: chatting with a bot to get basic things done is poor UX. This is why Walmart's OpenAI-powered chatbot ultimately failed to the tune of a 3x lower conversion rate than its website.

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Watching the CI/CD pipeline run 1800 tests for a 1-line change that fixes a typo

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

NNg 2026 State of UX: senior practitioners gaining ground, mid-level under real pressure. AI handles execution well enough that headcount math changes. What separates the two isn't tools. It's judgment.

https://t.co/YMcAnN04MH

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

April 1st sucks. It's already impossible to tell what's real on here, let's not make it worse.

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

The design systems question stopped being "do we need one." Now it's who owns the governance layer when AI is generating 40% of your UI. Most orgs haven't even asked that yet.

https://t.co/IDpzSYQxPH

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

Five-year career plans don't work when the roles, tracks, and orgs keep shifting underneath you. I wrote about building a Career OS instead, a living system for making intentional moves in a field that won't sit still. Part 1 of a nine-part series.

https://t.co/DETn9vOXBn

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

New Open Tabs is out.

Design roles: flat since 2023. ~5,700 open globally. PMs surged past 7,300. The ratio flipped — PMs now 1.27x more in demand than designers.

Also: an accessibility deadline 4 weeks out, Figma's $200M pivot, and more.

https://t.co/TwSulVneLM

[Justin Delabar @JustinDelabar]

60% of companies cut headcount for AI that hasn't performed and only 2% based on actual results. 55% of those CEOs already regret it.

Design jobs are being lost to a future that doesn't exist yet.

https://t.co/IDpzSYQxPH