Matt P

designer, builder & danderer | 🇬🇧🇮🇪 in 🇺🇸

[˗ˏˋ rogie ˎˊ˗ @rogie]

I think at some rate product designers lost the plot. We were meant to be inventors, thinkers, and a bridge between humans and the message or invention.

We aren’t meant to merely declutter, simplify, or make things pretty.

Designers are meant to make the very thing humans will be working with, in every imaginable way possible.

We are not rectangle builders, we are not pixel pushers, we are inventors and builders pushing to communicate to humans or let humans communicate to our inventions.

[Artiom Dashinsky @hvost]

design twitter in the last 72 hours:

[Matt P @mattptn]

If the tool replaces you, it probably wasn’t design to begin with.

[Claude @claudeai]

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[Matt P @mattptn]

It's 2026 - claude can oneshot an entire app from a sketch and I still needed to work a fax machine today

[Matt P @mattptn]

Today I had to send & receive a fax. Welcome to 2022.

[Matt P @mattptn]

@copilotmoney is genuinely my favorite finance app that I've been using for years now. One ask: let me connect with Claude 🙏

[Matt P @mattptn]

@jiro_0026 Spring weekend

[Matt P @mattptn]

My current X feed is rice cookers, peanuts in coke & daily life in Japan… I need the algorithm to keep me here 🇯🇵✨

[Matt P @mattptn]

@Kasekisai_T Wow this looks amazing!

[Matt P @mattptn]

Interesting seeing the reactions to my pretext experiment (and others). A mix of “we could already do this” and “this breaks layout/readability.”

Feels like the more interesting conversation is what changes when this becomes native to the web, and what it unlocks creatively. Thats how I read the spirit of what @_chenglou proposes.

New possibilities ≠ the “right” way or final form

[Matt P @mattptn]

This is the kind of primitive shift that makes you realize we’ve been designing around broken constraints the whole time…..excited to see how UI evolves from here

[Matt P @mattptn]

@ceeko_o don’t disagree. Just exploring and having fun with what’s possible. Fundamentals still matter

[Matt P @mattptn]

This is the kind of primitive shift that makes you realize we’ve been designing around broken constraints the whole time…..excited to see how UI evolves from here

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Matt P @mattptn]

@solarise_webdev Nicely done!

[Matt P @mattptn]

ok fineee, I’ll go outside I guess

[Matt P @mattptn]

@krispuckett Yes! The kids books use case is really cool to think about

[Matt P @mattptn]

@ormanclark Try to get outside in nature

[Matt P @mattptn]

@SammyDo32 I could see a lot of potential and practical applications for things like kids ebooks!

[Matt P @mattptn]

@solarise_webdev Absolutely - it’s fun to experiment with but curious to see how it shakes out

[Matt P @mattptn]

@tmuxvim true - this is more about doing it predictably

[Matt P @mattptn]

@dizlexic new possibilities ≠ the “right” way

[Matt P @mattptn]

@tendies and potentially eye crossing… depending on how it’s done