Astro

designer & engineer,

be always employed in something fun; cut off all unnecessary actions.
— b. franklin

[Shu @shuding]

13 years ago, Apple asked a question that hits me harder today than ever:

If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything?

Every day, I see a world flooded with effortless AI slops. I’m realizing that to build something truly great today, you need a level of focus the world has never demanded before.

It feels like trying to write a quiet, beautiful song in a room full of loud noise.

[Astro @uiastro]

@ignasxv last slide is mad lit 🔥

[shadcn @shadcn]

Engineering is for the machines. Design is human.

[Astro @uiastro]

@v_serbulenko @that_bernardo last time you said August, he's right to call you out on this.

[lynk @lynk0x]

Be delusional.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Being cringe is the tax you pay when you start to prove to the world that you care more about what you want than how you look.

[Astro @uiastro]

i gotta win, that's what's left

[DHH @dhh]

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.

[Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski]

People DO judge a book by its cover

[Astro @uiastro]

I just reserved my Cloudflare Wallet tag: https://t.co/yJgnTIronw.

Reserve yours now at https://t.co/jVwxrBs8jc

[Astro @uiastro]

@avstorm @nativebloomdev we need one like this on make it animated..

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

AI alone is cool. But mastery + creativity + AI hits on a whole different level. Don't let anyone discourage you from pursuing excellence and craft. Keep studying the blade.

[Astro @uiastro]

@itshassco @benjitaylor good stuff, where's the source?

[Astro @uiastro]

@v_serbulenko 😂better drop flames..

[Astro @uiastro]

@v_serbulenko so when are you dropping on make it animated? it's been a minute

[Astro @uiastro]

@v_serbulenko does this mean you stopped working on make it animated?

[Astro @uiastro]

@v_serbulenko cheers

[Astro @uiastro]

You need me for this level of quality 😏

Coming soon: https://t.co/LRzjVrs2V5 🌱

[Astro @uiastro]

@marcelkargul https://t.co/hQsNqHjZx8

[Astro @uiastro]

@milesdeutscher AI slop

[Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider]

Dear Designers

Do not forget.

You're allowed to make something that doesn't lean on the same three UI component libraries everybody else uses.

You're allowed to use a typeface that isn't SF Pro.

You're allowed to make apps look and work differently, they don't all have to look like a Finder re-skin or a stock MacOS app.

You're allowed to question every single assumption and convention you have absorbed without noticing you absorbed it.

You're allowed to leave a fingerprint.

Do not forget,
you are a designer 🖤