Todd Adel

Former Director of Product Design at ADT. (#opentowork) Father of two, husband of one. Music, sports, and beer aficionado. Tweets are my own. 🤘

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@PJVogt FWIW, my new music exploration generally consists of:

1. @lastfm recommendations - better and deeper than Spotify’s

2. @metacritic music new releases and check out highly-rated or interesting releases

3. Word-of-mouth, or lurk friends’ activity in @Spotify

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

Love this idea.

[Tom Johnson @tomjohndesign]

Design hack:
Set up an hour long meeting once a week, or at least once a sprint with your dev team just to go through and fix all of the tiny UI details that could be better.

All of the things that would never get prioritized in a Sprint planning.
All of the things that maybe a user would never notice.
All of the things that might have been missed in original implementation or just don't align since they were first built.

Change colors, update icons, improve hover states, fix overflow issues, add better tooltips, make shadows better, cleaner alignments, fix typography bugs, move a pixel here, change a hex there.

No tickets.
No backlog.
No user stories.
No business justification.
Nothing that takes more than an hour (or close to it).

Just craft.

You'll love your product more. Your team will get a chance to jam with no expectations or KPIs. I thought it would be nit-picky at first, would give the impression of busywork, but my team is as motivated by it as I am. It helps clean up old code, unify implementation, and get exposure to features that they may not have worked on.

Cleaner code. Cleaner UI. Cleaner product.

Tiny improvements, huge gain.

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

Anyone still waiting on vinyl pre-orders from @WeAreDeLaSoul? I ordered Stakes is High & Buhloone Mindstste on March 3, and my order still hasn’t shipped.

Customer service email is unresponsive and can’t find a phone number for the web store team.

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

I should be way better at this by now.

#MyTwitterAnniversary

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Changes in the colors of objects since 1800, from pictures of 7000 objects in the collections of UK science museums.

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@WUTangKids @PeterFManning3 There’s a podcast about it:

https://t.co/0oWEV6s7zA

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Let’s give public school teachers a raise.

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@mcas_CA The VCR didn’t have Bluetooth? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@Hookinhall @progressive @RonDeSantisFL Same issue with my auto (Florida/Progressive)

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@LauraJaneGrace Come back to South Florida, please.

[Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @RepPressley]

We MUST legalize marijuana, expunge records, and end the War on Drugs once & for all.

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@davidhogg111 Same

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

On this day 67 years ago, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began as Rosa Parks awaited trial following her brave refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man.

The bus boycott led to the desegregation of Montgomery’s bus system and became a catalyst of the Civil Rights movement.

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@BlockheadNYC Percentage chance that we'll see a @BlockheadNYC x @despotroast LP in our lifetime?

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

So this isn't an @TheOnion headline? 😮

https://t.co/OgrakHSlD2

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

Will donate 100% of sales from this design (any product) to @NARAL and @PPact

Let’s go!

https://t.co/8XUe4aFtNe

#RowVsWade #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #prochoice #AbortionIsHealthcare

[Denislav Jeliazkov @DenisJeliazkov]

One of the biggest frustrations is that I simply can't find enough good UX books.

That's why I spent yesterday curating a list of the top 30 UX design books 👇🏻

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@DougCollinsUX Parts the Red Sea.

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@AdobeDesign My Design Sprinting Tunes playlist
https://t.co/GnWk2VjbKo

[Todd Adel @toddadel]

@Twitter Are any of us?