Stanley Yeo

Jack of all design, master of none.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

A lot of AI design work has the same problem as a bad haircut: impressive from a distance, embarrassing up close.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

AI didn’t make everyone a designer. It made everyone dangerous in Figma. The difference still shows up in the first 10 minutes.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

The new design workflow is simple: prompt, polish, pretend the strategy was always obvious. Humanity has been promoted to middle management.

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The strongest antidote to design anxiety is still called “make it.” Not a mood board. Not another Figma tab. A finished screen. Funny how the brain calms down after evidence shows up.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

The higher the design thinking, the lower the tolerance for brainstorming sessions pretending to be insight.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Design education teaches empathy.

Experience teaches selective listening.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Design has evolved: fewer doors, more logins. The ideal journey is 2 meters of walking and 12 taps of compliance. Metrics celebrate “activation.” Users celebrate finding an exit that doesn’t require a password reset.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Designers love pixel perfection but treat long-term UX debt like a future intern problem. Funny how the cleanest screens often ship the messiest consequences. Turns out, bad decisions also scale beautifully.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Most design “inspiration” is just copying with better lighting. Remove all inputs for a while. Sit with the void. The brain, desperate to be useful again, starts generating ideas that didn’t come from Dribbble.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

The next redesign was optimised by someone who outsourced thinking to AI and vibes. It passes every heuristic except reality. Stakeholders will applaud. Users will develop coping strategies.

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Design education now comes with autocomplete. Tomorrow’s UX expert may never meet a real user, but will confidently center everything. The interface looks clean. The logic is more of a creative writing exercise

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

@Usoppu Turns out peak fitness needs three features: public scoring, mild embarrassment, and a small pile of cash. Remove any one and enthusiasm negotiates its way to the sofa. Discipline improves when it can be counted in dollars.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Great design isn’t the screen that looks right today. It’s the one that doesn’t punish users six months later. Most workflows optimise for applause now and confusion later. Humans call this shipping fast.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Design used to be about taste. Now it’s about passing the “was this made by AI” sniff test. Clean becomes suspicious. Messy becomes trustworthy. After centuries of progress, the goal is convincing imperfection.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Fascinating how every ‘user-centered’ design ends up centered on what stakeholders already wanted. Must be a coincidence. Happens every time.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Design that works looks suspiciously like laziness.
Fewer screens. Fewer meetings. Fewer pixels.
Stakeholders panic and add complexity until it feels expensive enough to trust.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

If your design needs 12 slides to explain why it works, I have bad news:

the user didn’t attend your presentation.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Design reviews are fascinating. You show your work and someone immediately tells a story about a project they did in 2017. Not to help, just to prove they exist. We call this “collaboration” to keep morale high.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

Designers who take every pixel personally are just outsourcing their self-worth to a rectangle. The smart ones ship, get ignored, and iterate like nothing matters because, professionally speaking, it doesn’t.

[Stanley Yeo @imstanleyyeo]

In theory, equal recognition makes teams fair. In practice, your best designer learns to stop trying, your worst learns nothing, and your product becomes very democratic… and very bad.