Dan

Owner at SD. Head of Design @bt_uk @ee @plusnet. Freelancing at DS.

[Bartek @bartek_marzec]

Another airbnb micro interaction found

[Brad Colbow @bradcolbow]

Stupid nerd post incoming. This is a pet peeve from my days designing interfaces.

You need to add the margin to the outer curve of a screen to make the rounded corner effect look right.

The inner curve "might" be mathematically correct on the Surface Laptop screen if you go by the top margin. But since the side margins are thinner it looks wrong. You can't pull off a elegant rounded corner with inconsistent top and side margins.

I would have either made the side margins thicker or the top margin smaller so they are equal so the rounded corner effect looked correct. They designed themselves into a lose-lose situation.

I see this on android phones all the time. Thinness of bezels is placed above visual consistency. iPhone side bezels are wider than other phones, but they are more visually consistent and in my opinion look much better.

[gaut @0xgaut]

POV: you’re a “business guy” at the hackathon

[Dan @danstyled]

@appariciojunior These are awesome!

[Dan @danstyled]

@appariciojunior Welcome to no sleep club buddy 🤣

[Dan @danstyled]

https://t.co/nNuC5IdAuo

Love this insight into shared accountability and goals. The highest performing teams remove hierarchy and understand the outcome via @kateldn

[Dan @danstyled]

https://t.co/yvbZ3lbgMD

The prerequisite to change is empathy - insightful talk by Michelle Yeoh

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

AutoGPT is the next BIG thing in AI.

Seems like a new *groundbreaking* update comes out every hour.

Here are a few examples just from the past 24 hours: 👇

[Dan @danstyled]

@SystemProUK @tsohost Still waiting also. I’m literally waiting to move 5 websites to a new provider but radio silence. Surely this is illegal. Particularly when their “comms” didn’t reach the majority of their customers

[Dan @danstyled]

@tsohost @AdyMatBruce I have the similar - no communications around this in my email. @tsohost could you not reenable gridhost for a few days so we can manually migrate?

[Dan @danstyled]

@tsohost Literally received zero comms about this - can you ensure my ticket is dealt with asap as I have a number of sites down.

[Heldiney @heldiney]

Another thing I’ve learned about leadership recently is how much invisible work you become comfortable doing. Operational, cultural work that may never be traced back to you and being okay with that.

[Maxime De Greve @MaximeDeGreve]

All us @figma users right now. 👏🎵❤️

[Shit User Story @ShitUserStory]

As a…
– designer
I want…
– access to design tools, free from the shackles of extortionate bundled annual subscriptions
so that…
– wait, what?

[Sam @sambhigham]

I created this image a little while ago to visualise different ways I've seen Product Teams work.

Someone asked me to explain them a little further...so I shall...(1/8)

[Jehad Affoneh @jaffoneh]

As a design leader, hiring decisions are the most important design decisions you’ll make.

Org design informs the rest of how the org operates.

Never delegate hiring to committees. Gather perspectives, but make decisions.

[Denislav Jeliazkov @DenisJeliazkov]

Bad design pitches are:
• Here's my solution
• Here's what it does
• Here's what's so good about it

Good design pitches are:
• Here's the problem
• Here's the impact of solving it
• Here's why what we've tried has failed
• And here is a way that we fix it

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

Q: You’re helping a colleague understand what excellence in design is. What do you send them?

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

Good leaders share the credit when thing go well and take responsibility when things go badly.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

2 tests that can reveal a lot about your relationship with your manager:

- Do you usually look forward to your 1:1s with your manager, are you indifferent, or do you dread them?

- At the end of the 1:1, do you usually feel more energetic than when you started, same, or less?