Every time youโre tempted to slack off or do or be a little less than you could, remember that you are a person of integrity who lives by the simple creed: do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.
We brought Touch to the Mac!
From the all-new iPad mini to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac... and now MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch, creators have new tools to do their best work yet.
Anyway, for the ones who still like to think about humans when designing, I share my thoughts on Substack. Hereโs a recent one on what products should remember:
https://t.co/BLwEkWL9II
Omg yes! Everyone keeps talking about how theyโve stopped using certain tools and outsourced everything to AI agents, as if the goal is to remove yourself from the process entirely. But I feel the exact opposite
This isnโt about rejecting AI. I donโt think Iโve gone a single workday without using AI tools. But deep thinking still requires slowing down, and nothing beats a canvas, an agent, and occasionally touching grass
Omg yes! Everyone keeps talking about how theyโve stopped using certain tools and outsourced everything to AI agents, as if the goal is to remove yourself from the process entirely. But I feel the exact opposite
โdesigning much faster than the othersโ โ this so daft and makes it clear they donโt understand design at all. โDesigning fastโ (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate โproducing ui by piecing together stuffโ and โdesignโ then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow.
What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, itโs what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together.
So many of todayโs โdesignโ AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. Iโd love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isnโt concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.
Design has so much influence over different aspects of a product experience. Sometimes, the work itself is how you develop the judgement to make something good
Worked on the Litmas 2.0 website with @WeTalkSound. Moodboarded, designed, and built it in pixel art, with a bit of dithering.
A few surprises unlock on 1 December. ๐
Obsessive public sharing syndrome is what is wrong with social media today. Even grief, intimacy and vulnerability has become opportunities for engagement these days
Maybe healthier social technology would recognize that some moments deserve an audience of millions, some deserve five friends, some deserve one person, and others deserve nobody at all ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ
The anticipation of an audience has begun to influence how people experience their own lives. No ability to distinguish between what should be kept personal versus what is meant for the public anymore