Allison Lei

Sensemaker, designer, curious person. Following ideas, making things, seeing where they go.

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

After 4+ years at my last company, I was laid off last month. Instead of rushing into what’s next, I’m taking some time to figure out what I actually want now—and writing about it as I go.

First letter: (Re)building in public👇🏼

https://t.co/9JFnYmalJA

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

@Erica_Codes_NJ For sure. For me, this is a pretty purposeful period of exploration—following what I’m curious about and writing about what I find, without deciding what it all needs to add up to before I get there u know?

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

After 4+ years at my last company, I was laid off last month. Instead of rushing into what’s next, I’m taking some time to figure out what I actually want now—and writing about it as I go.

First letter: (Re)building in public👇🏼

https://t.co/9JFnYmalJA

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

If you’re integrating AI thoughtfully into your design practice—or building AI-enabled products—this episode is a strong starting point.

Always open to exchanging lessons learned.

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

Designers adopting AI: this episode is worth a listen.

Here are the takeaways I’m bringing into my workflow from Justin Massa’s “Adopting AI with Purpose and Confidence.”

A thread🧵

https://t.co/JRelkxeBEG

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

Study with AI

Tools like Notebook LM can synthesize research and patterns fast—helpful when designing in ambiguous or complex spaces.

[Jess - UI Goodies ♡ @jesseddy]

Designers are the most burnt out because no one has to justify their existence as much as them.

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

Today is a great day to be an early career designer ☀️

h/t @davidhoang

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

@SprrrintDesign Gradient

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

Just read “Speaking Things Into Existence” by Ethan Mollick—designers, here’s how we embrace the 🤖s
•We’re not wireframing—we’re speaking ideas into life
•From maker → creative director
•AI = scaffolding, we = the vision

https://t.co/Rywf59DW4y

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

@British_Airways I have no words… lost bags took 6 days out of our 8 day trip to get them back. Basically reminded our entire itinerary with no equipment and then customer service has no direct way to help just endless claims to file with barely functioning tech. Never again.

[Shujaat @shoejaat]

being a designer is fucking wild. one week you're good at what you do, and the next week it takes you 3 days to move a box 60 pixels

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

wow @Airbnb ‘s customer support is really quite bad… a true run around politician/smoke and mirrors routine happening there

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

the way @airbnb doesn’t care if a host cancels last min and leaves you high and dry on christmas weekend so your only options are now 2x or 3x the cost

they’ll only make up the cost difference if a host cancels 3 days out or less… how is that enough to accomodate plans?

[Allison Lei @allisonleisays]

took me less than 2 weeks to adjust to my M1 Max 💻 so now 🏃🏻‍♀️💨 is my base level processing speed 😅

[Wickedgeekie @wickedgeekie]

If you're lazy and arrogant, UX design is *not* the job for you. It demands to throw away and start again on a regular basis, because that is the path to complete success. But sure, advocate for "just do that", templates, shortcuts, quick fixes, and "I know best I designed it".

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

An excellent example of how UX and UI are not the same thing - and the comments show how many designers don't understand the distinction either