Drew Huddleston

Creative leader, digital products and services.

[Ryan Hamilton @TheRyanHamilton]

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

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[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

Hey @British_Airways, it would be ace if your check-in kiosks worked in the AMS airport (even simply showing the “next” button). Happy to help if you need support!

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

@gdimelow 😂

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

@gdimelow 😮

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

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[George Mack @george__mack]

This might be the best email I've ever read:

• Steve Jobs email to himself 13 months before he died.

We stand on the shoulders of giants everyday.

Next time you speak to a cynic, ask them these 10 questions:

1. How does the electricity grid work?

2. If you tried to create your food purely from scratch, how long would it take you?

3. How much work is involved in maintaining sewage systems?

4. How much time did people spend building the roads you drive on everyday?

5. Who created air conditioning?

6. If you was dropped on an island and had to create a smartphone, how long would it take you?

7. What did the economy look like before the invention of money?

8. How many people died in the Black Plague?

9. What would your role have been if you was fighting age in WW2?

10. What daily modern item would Kings of the past trade their whole empire for?

[AK @_akhaliq]

AI generative fill extending scenes, movies shot in portrait format by @Alex_Cerrato

[Jan Mraz @janm_uiux]

Ultimate design cheatsheet to UX research methods 🧪

Retweets are highly appreciated! 💜

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

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[Brian Solis @briansolis]

When you have an idea, are you dissuaded by the problems they present? Iconic Apple and LoveFrom design, Jony Ive, has some words of advice for you.

Ive is the former design head of Apple and the cofounder of LoveFrom, a small collective of creators. Ive is an obsessive student of design and the creative process.

When someone challenges your idea, it's often because they only see the problems it faces, not its potential for value creation. It's a mindset.

It's also a mindset that accepts that challenge to see through the problems toward the solution. It's how you unlock possibility. And it's an art.

And the process for having an idea and bringing it to life is the "biography of an idea."

I call it, a "mindshift." It's the ability to see a way forward when others only see the walls that keep them from leaving their comfort zones.

"It's about your relationship with knowledge, with dogma and with opportunity," Jony Ive shared in a conversation with Anna Winter, Vogue's transformational editor-in-chief.

Do you accept that problems represent a closed door or do you seek answers that unlock opportunity?

You'll never know if you if you don't try to solve the problems.

"The difference between an idea and a product is that you’ve solved the problems. When someone says to me, 'Well, you can’t do this for these reasons,'" Ive reveals.

From his perspective, it's a challenge that, if meaningful, becomes part of the idea's biography.

"All it means is that there are problems to be solved. If they can be solved, the idea transitions into becoming a thing," Ive observes. "If they can’t, it remains an idea."

One of Ive's favorite quotes is from Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw. It goes, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Jony Ive is such, an unreasonable man. And to create against problems to be solved and opportunities to create, we too, must become unreasonable. We must recognize when dogma is the impeding problem and not the problems that can otherwise be solved.

It's how you look at the world. It's how you perceive the world. It's how open you are to curiosity, to wonder, to possibility.

So, who is the next unreasonable woman or man? If you've read this far, then the answer is, you.

In Ive's own words, you'll find validation.

"I think one of the most important attributes or traits of a creative team, of a creative individual, is being curious and inquisitive, constantly," he believes. "With a real ferocious appetite for learning and being comfortable, and being surprised, and excited when you're surprised,
that you've learned something new."

Be curious. Be inquisitive. Be optimistic. Be unreasonable.

LFG.

With love from...

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

@gdimelow I hope that man is identified, publicly shamed, his employer takes action, and faces legal action for destruction of private property.

[Andrew Hochradel | 🏳️‍🌈 @HochDotCo]

This is the absolute best example I've ever seen in a rebrand case study. @cghnyc an unmatched.

[Ian Paget | Logo Geek @logogeek]

“Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv's revamp for the brand feels as much like an art restoration as a logo redesign, fattening the shield up again, bringing back its border and generally bringing the design back to life” https://t.co/US22P4FAq9 #LogoDesign

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

@gdimelow Indeed.

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

@gdimelow 😂

[Pubity @pubity]

Two elephants reach out to each other before being separated from each other for a lifetime

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

@gdimelow @RepOgles https://t.co/PGmmSmuP8F

[Drew Huddleston @drewhudd]

@gdimelow I liked that one as well. On display on my shelf.