Junnan Ma

Aspiring Full Stack Designer | exKPMG exPWC | Branding | Design System | ADPList Mentor

[Junnan Ma @junnanma]

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[Junnan Ma @junnanma]

With AI there’s no ego, no feelings and no workload to think about. That rewards the habit and hands it an excuse.

I wrote about the signs I’d watch for, and a few small things that help: https://t.co/ktE3rOAkQg

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Lately I’ve had less patience for the slower, human parts of work. My first thought was that AI was making me blunt.

But I was blunt long before I typed my first prompt.

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@Jayyanginspires BEST

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@amix3k @JoshuaPWilson Em…very interesting point. Things we take for granted as intuitive might not be the case for everyone.

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2/ I still think people become senior the same way: see through the brief to what it's really for, and decide from there.

What's changed is the waiting. AI fast-tracks the knowledge. Judgment still takes years.

More on my blog: https://t.co/VMMM4VoLRM

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1/ The ladder I climbed from junior to senior designer is being pulled up.

On my own projects, AI already feels like an account manager plus a couple of junior and mid-level designers.

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So push AI as far as it goes, then spend where it counts. I wrote more about when it's worth bringing a designer in: https://t.co/XkF5CVbSQg

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Small businesses can now get a working website out of AI before they ever talk to a designer, and I'd encourage it. My friend Yichen did exactly that for his mortgage broking business, then handed it to me for the final touch. The video shows his AI draft and my finished site.

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His draft already worked, so what was left for me was the surface: redrawing his logo on a grid, turning it into a window onto Sydney, and the type and images that make it feel like him. It took days instead of weeks and cost about a third of starting from scratch.

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I won't be buying the iPhone Duo. The price stings, but the real cost is attention. It's clearly built for people who consume content on the go, and in the end it consumes them. If you remote-control AI agents all day, then maybe. But I still don't see why the iPhone or iPad isn't enough

[Junnan Ma @junnanma]

I won't be buying the iPhone Duo. The price stings, but the real cost is attention. It's clearly built for people who consume content on the go, and in the end it consumes them. If you remote-control AI agents all day, then maybe. But I still don't see why the iPhone or iPad isn't enough.

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This resonates so much! I run a solo design agency while having another full time job. Never thought I’d be able to do it before the AI era. I built a Chinese learning app and a colouring & drawing aid app for my two girls. They loved it. Even my 5 year old can read 160 Chinese hanzi characters now before she can read any English word

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@danmall This is exciting! looking forward to it. And 34 hours!?😱 I know it requires a lot of effort but did not know it requires so much prep behind the scene

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I’ve worked in design for over a decade, and this might be the best product landing page I’ve ever seen. No gimmicks, no excessive animation, no scroll hijacking, just thoughtful details and enough motion that make the product feel truly premium. No wonder it sold out so quickly. I'm too late. @raycast never stops blowing my mind how software design can be so beautiful!

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I've slowly built up a bunch of little automations that run my life — filing notes, drafting my diary, watching my reading queue. The problem is I kept losing track of them. So I tried something a bit silly: I asked Claude to turn the whole thing into a tiny Stardew Valley-style office, where every background job is a staff member. If someone's asleep at their desk, it means a script quietly failed.

Then yesterday I got curious and let the staff hold a meeting with each other. They read their own code, wrote memos, and debated proposals. They found three real bugs I didn't know about.

I'm still not sure if this is a serious tool or a toy, but I check it every morning now, which is more than I can say for my logs.

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I made 4 mac apps over a weekend with @glazeapp!!! One of them is SqueezePress, a video and audio transcript extraction app. Drop in a video or audio file, and it outputs a Markdown text file: https://t.co/IToVYN0QvN
I never thought I could make a Mac app. @glazeapp is mind-blowing!🤯