Kirk from UI Collective

Founder of UI Collective. 70k+ on Youtube. Design systems, product thinking, AI for designers. Helping designers get hired & ship better work.

[Kirk from UI Collective @KirkMDesign]

I spent 2.5 years racking up 2+ million views teaching design systems & UX design on YouTube. Now bringing that same energy to X.

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@daniel_brassnyo Any excuse for someone to book another meeting

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Corporate design is where a “fast-paced environment” means a six-week review of different button placements

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@tebomofokengg Gotta love PO's and their personal preference

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@DerekColling1 Yeah tried that to. If only each stakeholder was the same

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Anyone else present wireframes and spend the next 20 minutes explaining that the gray boxes aren’t the final design?

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@nourIsAnxious "it's perfect, but change the entire token set"

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a PM once told me the design was perfect and then asked if we could try it in blue

I still think about that

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There’s a whole generation of designers who’ve never felt Sketch crash with 2 hours of unsaved work.

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@halalstocktok Some stakeholders (executives and PM’s) just can’t seem to help themselves when they see a low-fi box

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@arvydas_gecas More project managers and product owners of clients

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@DerekColling1 Sadly in the past some stakeholders still demand them. I’ve found myself having to produce them just to show that “I follow the proper design process” … whatever that is these days

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@UnitedFancast It takes a long time to fully grasp which is where designers tend to move onto other things instead

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How should this work with a keyboard? What should a screen reader announce?

These details belong in your design handoff.

In my latest video, I walk through using Figma annotations to communicate accessibility requirements to developers.

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@equalworld_ai Absolutely. It's about developers not having to guess

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@_aloksharma Even when set context though, the issue is that people just look for something to say so they default to questioning the boxes

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@mattwebstudio and too many designers, especially in corporate, rely too heavily on AI for these things

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@nourIsAnxious Honestly I started reverting to wireframes again in early convos. People are getting way too fixed on AI producing something world class in an hour

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@UnitedFancast that's what I'm really trying to push here. A little work earlier on can go a long way

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@daman76752 It's insane what can happen in several years

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Remember when prototyping meant linking 60 artboards with hotspots in InVision and praying nobody clicked the wrong thing during the demo