Phil Pitus

design engineer, building (tba)

sharing thoughts on design, code, taste and the business side of software. trying to make things better

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@thekevinjon ahhh, the good old mushroom street

[Phil Pitus @pitus_]

Officially retiring the "uiux" prefix.
Decided to switch to my last name.

Why?

For anyone who's followed me for a while or know me personally, this probably feels obvious. I've never been someone who could stay in one lane. My work, and honestly my whole life, was never just about design.

Growing up, I had a genuinely hard time combining everything I was really passionate about: business, coding (or just generally speaking tech), building things, art, creativity...

ui/ux or product design was the one thing that let me touch all of it at once, which is exactly why I built my identity around it in the first place.

But the older I get, the more I understand that tying my entire online persona to the "uiux" turned out to be way more limiting than I wanted.

Am I leaving design?

No.

I just don't want to second guess myself anymore when I talk about stuff outside of design, like I need permission because I was "uiuxphil," so obviously I'm only allowed to talk about ui and ux.

ui/ux design was definitely a great introduction to the world of tech and online business, I met a lot of amazing people and made friends with a lot of inspiring people

But going forward, I want to be associated with my last name more than just ui/ux or just design, that's all.

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99% of designers who can’t push code are too slow to work with

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@uikuba two power buttons on the headlight?

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@DanielWhit21874 not saying your sound design skills are bad, it's just annoying to have a sound on every interaction

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@DanielWhit21874 That is probably the most annoying thing you can do to your ui

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@UltraLinx I think you should have used MAX effort

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@theo What's the one video I should watch to understand why you're "Anthropic's #1 hater"?

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@PlayStation Xbox's best day ever

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@benjitaylor Where did the purple come from? Wonder how it looks with a grayscale

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@marckohlbrugge @openclaw Agree, but it's really hard to find someone who's a good designer and is comfortable enough with coding in swift, kotlin and javascript

(and trust me vibe coding is only going to make things a lot worse)

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@smakosh not saying your product is that, just pointing the difference in copywriting

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@smakosh Yeah the algo seems to reward the low-quality, brain-rot and low IQ content more than anything

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@thdxr The perfect „it’s 3 AM and I can’t sleep” question

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@stefangarofalo After that it’s the same price as 4.6

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@CreeCoder Undeniably worse

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@tyka_dominik Need a name of that steakhouse

is it in Krakow?

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@mortenpx @openclaw it has the same UX issues the real app does, but definitely a better UI!

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@nikitabier What about three all-time lows?

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@steipete Happy to help you out with the design Peter, I dm'd you already