Pascal Ewaat

Product Designer || Brand Designer || Design Critique

[Pascal Ewaat @PEwaat]

@JoBenEtuk dug up some websites we worked on 3 years ago, and we found ourselves reminiscing on the journey since back then. 😅 Back when we visited Awwwards website with a goal.
I know @clish_illa is proud looking back. 💯

[Archie McKenzie @archiemckenzie_]

“we sandboxed the agent”

meanwhile the agent:

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on.

[dax @thdxr]

please i'm begging you show me something you built

not another "this is my custom agent setup" post where you pretend you're doing something smarter than vanilla claude code

please

[Dylan Field @zoink]

I have been thinking about whether to comment on this. Not clear if Gal is serious, rage baiting, etc. Whatever the case, it has spread enough in the design community that I want to share some thoughts.

The psychological journey people go through with AI is quite fascinating to me. A new model launches, people think the world has changed, they sometimes have an existential crisis, then they play with the model, they understand its strengths and limitations and then they settle down. A few weeks later, the cycle repeats.

On top of this, even before AI, designers have often shown insecurity and imposter syndrome. There are probably many reasons for this. First, before ~2010 design wasn't valued by the tech industry in the way it is today. Second, the people attracted to working in the field of design are often very open to new ideas and have high empathy. Third, there is no "one path" to working as a designer and designer backgrounds are often pretty random.

Ironically, despite the insecurity + imposter syndrome so many designers feel, design is more important than ever. I truly believe this. And yes, I have an incentive to believe this. But just think about it... the logic couldn't be more clear. More design is entering the world, the attention economy is real and therefore creativity / design / point of view is how you will stand out. Your brand, marketing, product design, moments of delight and overall customer journey must be excellent. Some companies already get this and are fighting wild battles over design talent. Other companies are still figuring it out. Everyone will get there and it will be obvious in retrospect.

This isn't a new trend with AI. It is a trend that we've seen over the last decade. Designers used to complain about not having a seat at the table. Now designers have a seat at the table. And many of the businesses I speak with are pulling from their design bench when looking for new leaders for their business... they know that design thinking and the design process is what they need to adopt everywhere to win.

I'm not saying that every stakeholder gets it. But so many are trying to learn right now. Designers need to do more than create great work, they have to spend a lot more effort educating.

Showing work can also trigger anxiety. Sometimes the best solution to a design challenge is the first thing you think of. And other times you have to explore for quite a long time to come up with something great. Inputs to a design process might include things that feel like traditional office work and are easy to point to... reading docs, talking with teammates, formal research, etc. Inputs might also include a walk in the park, an interesting dream you had the night before, a good song you listened to on the radio during your commute, a painting from the 1800's or all sorts of other cultural / emotional input.

In summary, I've never been more confident in the role of design and impact design can have. I wish designers felt the same confidence. This is the moment to be more bold, to take more creative risk, to double down on the power of design. Everyone is on their own journey, and there are lots of fascinating ways to move through life, so if Gal is serious about "quitting design" then I wish him the best in his adventures ahead. But I hope if others follow they do it because there are other things they are so excited about spending time on vs fear of AI.

[$ @jxtsummer]

what a privilege it is to be able to wake up and try again

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Fun fact: It's NOT possible for the earth to be flat because if it was, capitalism would have exploited it by now. The “ends of the earth” would be tourist destinations with theme parks and hotels and a damn swing set that would let you swing over the edge.

[luvr grl @itslesliegloria]

kill yourself for Africa is NEVER leaving my vocab I can tell you that much

[DANN© @DannPetty]

Anyone can generate a logo, a landing page, a whole brand now.

Almost no one can tell you which one is good.

Taste is the whole job now.

[m @uncomptefan]

Just perfect

[meet ayobamiji @Ayobamijiiii]

how it feels when you've outgrown your life but haven't found the next one yet

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

There is no evidence reincarnation is linear. Your next life could be thousands of years ago.

[LEYE @leyeConnect]

A tool may have 100 features, but your work may only require 20%. Mastering all 100 makes you proficient with the tool, not necessarily competent at the job. Competence is measured by what you produce, not by what you know about the tool.

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Daniel Cressy, 23, becomes the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy

[Pascal Ewaat @PEwaat]

@Razthedesigner Good designs 👏🏾

[Daryl Ginn @darylginn]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

1. Reduce your line height
2. Reduce your line length
3. Use fewer font sizes
4. Use fewer typefaces

[Pascal Ewaat @PEwaat]

@Onimicee_Design @danielenitan_ 🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider]

Dear Designers

Do not forget.

You're allowed to make something that doesn't lean on the same three UI component libraries everybody else uses.

You're allowed to use a typeface that isn't SF Pro.

You're allowed to make apps look and work differently, they don't all have to look like a Finder re-skin or a stock MacOS app.

You're allowed to question every single assumption and convention you have absorbed without noticing you absorbed it.

You're allowed to leave a fingerprint.

Do not forget,
you are a designer 🖤

[#TheSportsIlluminator @RayToluAyo]

I always love your write up

Always precise and dope, and your knowledge is vast

However,, there are "four statements" that are fallacies in the media space

• Cristiano Ronaldo is arrogant but Lionel Messi is humble
• Ronaldo chase records, Messi doesn't
• Ronaldo cares about the rivalry, Messi doesn't
• Ronaldo is hard work, Messi is talent

All these four, they are lies!!

Everything you said about Messi is good but it kinda paints Ronaldo as a selfish and a bad person

First, I don't believe all these Portugal players don't regard Ronaldo

I have followed football to a stage where I don't follow media noise

There is competition amongst team mates. You played football and you know this

An average European footballer has this perceived arrogant personality

Ask Zinedine Zidane, ask Thierry Henry, ask Arjen Robben, ask Eden Hazard, ask some of the great European players, etc

Second, before I judge someone, I sometimes check where they are from which are foundations to a lot of things

In 2007, Ronaldo was asked who the best player in the history of football is

He said;

"Cristiano Ronaldo"

He was 21 years and he hasn't even achieved anything

In 2012, when Ronaldo was asked about the Ballon d'Or

He said;

"in Portugal, we don't act like we don't want something. We say it out the way we feel it. I want to win the Ballon d'Or"

You have heard how Jose Mourinho speaks......

I think Nani once said he is as good as Ronaldo but Ronaldo was way more consistent. I can't remember how he put it again

These are the Portuguese ways of speaking and actions. They don't hide it and it doesn't make them arrogant

The Joao Neves interview, I didn't condemn him because of two things;

First, he is young and might not have meant it the way the media portrayed it

Second, it's the Portuguese way of speaking

All these Ronaldo is chasing records, he reacts or doesn't talk to anyone if he doesn't score doesn't make him arrogant or selfish

That's a personality trait and a way of dealing with disappointment

Yes, maybe sometimes;

He overdoes it or he should have done better, but then, is there anyone 100% perfect in character

And it's not every game that he doesn't score that he won't talk to his teammates after the game

He has played over 1000 games

Dring the BBC/MSN era.

The MSN said they use to share glasses of wine together

Ronaldo said;

He keeps a professional friendship with the BBC. They don't share wine, they come to work and go to their houses

Does that make the BBC group worse than the MSN?

Messi doesn't chase records....

Was it not the same Messi that messaged Pep Guardiola when Zlatan Ibrahimovic was making the headlines ahead of him in Barcelona

And it led to Zlatan being marginalized from the team!

Was it not the same Messi that said he was hurt when Ronaldo tied his Ballon d'Or awards?

Was it not the same Messi that told Guillerm Ballague that he wants to outdo Cristiano

So, you still think he doesn't chase records?

Let me tell you today, Messi has eyes on 1000 career goals. If anyone tells you otherwise, it's a lie

The Argentina team

You see the Argentine team that became successful

It's just because we don't give him his flowers. Lionel Scaloni was the reason why that team succeeded

Before now, Argentina was individualistic but when Scaloni came, the first thing he did was break that individualism structure

That was what the birth of whatever you see in the Argentina national team today

Scaloni fostered unity, trust, friendliness, and loyalty among the Argentine players and that was the beginning of their greatness

Once again, great write up but sometimes what the media paints are far from the truth

Well done